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I’ve argued before that culture isn’t stagnating so much as migrating into forms we don’t have the language to recognize yet — internet personalities
here in the contemporary West, we don’t really do elders: instead, we have “the elderly.” The connotations are quite different.
What would it mean, instead of being an elderly woman, to be an elder woman? Because to be an elder implies something rather different — it implies au
As Magic Makers, we have the ability to not only communicate with the dead but to prolong their lives through holy acts of memory-keeping. When I cook
It’s not always easy to wade into wonder, to merge with mystery. It is tempting to overthink, overcomplicate, to distance, to hedge, to hesitate. But
I’ve learned to resist the illusion of stuckness and to follow my own fascinations. The word fascinate comes from the Latin fascinus, which means “spe
“Rituals are the doorways of the psyche, between the sacred and the profane, between purity and dirt, beauty and ugliness, and an opening out of the o
Success in New Games looks nothing like success in Old Games. You won't have a prestigious job at a famous company. You'll have equity in something yo
The infrastructure won't be rebuilt by institutions or apps or government programs. It will be rebuilt by small groups playing New Games until Old Gam
These aren't revolutionary ideas. They're ancient patterns: small groups of humans doing hard things together repeatedly. We just forgot they were nec
Alvin Toffler is credited with saying: “The illiterate of the 21****st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn
Adaptive literacy means you can recognise when your expertise has become a liability. When the thing that made you successful is now preventing you fr
Often, our first tactic for making change is information. To improve diets, we tell kids about the links between donuts, soda, obesity, and diabetes.
Any lesson, even a necessary one, can be learned too well. There is a comfort in being disabused, a pride in turning up the lights and puncturing illu
transitioning to a creativity-first mindset requires much more than just designing better tools. It requires us to shift to a new paradigm that celebr
Wabi-sabi is the antidote to all things symmetrical, mass-produced, or generated by AI. It has been crafted by humans and oxygen and seasons and the c
Ideas are expansive, elastic things, and many are big enough that they’ll seek multiple outlets.
Wabi-sabi is the antidote to all things symmetrical, mass-produced, or generated by AI. It has been crafted by humans and oxygen and seasons and the c
Suffering reduces. Negativity is the enemy of creativity. It’s common sense. If someone is depressed, they say they don’t even feel like getting out o
Ideas are expansive, elastic things, and many are big enough that they’ll seek multiple outlets.
You’ve never fully seen yourself in “proper” references. So you’re good at making things for people who live between categories too. • Work that fee
Sometimes when my Demon of Perfectionism is making me fret about how woolly my words are or how far away my “perfect” final product seems to be, I utt
Gen Z doesn’t experience cultural time this way. They’re reacting to everything that has ever happened
Since every era is equally available, and all events are potentially happening at the same time, the chain of causality and influence breaks down comp
Zoomers, you see, live inside the Archive. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they are imprisoned inside the Archive—a Borgesian labyrinth.
Sam Buntz makes the opposite case: his claim is that streaming platforms and TikTok have flattened cultural time so completely that Gen Z can’t form t
To sense is to participate, to live inside the world rather than above it or outside of it. To feel—to experience—is to be real.
UNLIKE THE STORY TOLD by science fiction, the machine probably won't win by conquest. Instead, like the cuckoo, it'll dominate us via parasitism—by hi
People say “touch grass” to mean getting away from a screen, and it’s kind of a joke, but literally, it’s true: touching grass is the capacity to dwel
To treat the body as something we “own” rather than something we inhabit is to exile ourselves from the place where meaning takes root.
‘As we work to reverse these long-term socio-economic and socio-political trends to foster more connections to others, stronger communities, more pro-
Maybe what we need is not an object to be known but a cause of wonder.
If you insist that anything too common, anything come by too cheaply, must be boring, then all the wonders of the Singularity cannot save you. You wil
Dreaming is about expanding our minds beyond the culture of white supremacy, and the perfectionism, hyper-individuality, rushedness, and passiveness i
this is the power in not only individually dreaming, but in collectively dreaming. There is power in communing in ideas of freedom that whiteness coul
Why is it in so many circles, dreaming is thought of as frivolous, individualistic, escapist? As something that is running from reality? I think that’
Woolf responded that if she were to spend three guineas (the equivalent of roughly three dollars in today’s money) to prevent war, she wouldn’t give t
You can't practice 21st-century strategy inside 20 th -century structures. Everything we've outlined requires one core shift: from extraction to stewa
One thing I am starting to get the hang of is igniting suspicion toward those impulsive solutions which appear at first to make the most logical and r
“It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structur
Woolf says you cannot simply oppose war while leaving intact the structures that produce war.
“You have not yet touched the hearts of the women. You have not yet spoken to their power.” - Leymah Gbowee
The underlying problem is not men as a sex. The root of the problem lies in a social system in which the power of the Blade is idealized--in which bot
Most of her treatise on how to prevent war centers on dismantling this patriarchal hierarchy. She says patriarchy and militarism are one in the same-
Woolf then speaks of the patriotism that has long inspired men to fight wars. But she says, “As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no countr
it doesn’t actually work on an entire society, not forever, because even thought we are an imperfect species, and even though we can and are accultura
What you are feeling right now, be it volcanic anger or exhaustion or guilt or confusion or incapacitation isn’t just real, it is sacred. It is your h
“The challenge to all of us is to live a revolution, not to die for one. There has been too much killing, and the weapons are now far too terrible. Th
This is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curi
On paper, taste = discernment. In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.
For Kant, judgment is the mental faculty that connects particulars to universals—the capacity to say “this thing is an instance of that category.” But
A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produ
Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence: “The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligenc
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
