Keely Adler

It’s a good bet these present-day hobbies will seed future industries. What the smartest people do on the weekends is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years.

Olmsted’s varied experiences produced a uniquely qualified individual: one able to think on a large scale, to digest vast amounts of information, and to organize large and complicated projects. Not least, thanks to his firsthand study of diverse landscapes, Olmsted developed an artistic eye alert to the details of scenery, not only its overall... See more

Metaphors eventually become invisible. They calcify into a worldview that seems natural and inevitable. Once embedded, they define what counts as legitimate strategy, what risks are tolerable, who holds power, and how success is measured.

Groundedness is a firm and unwavering foundation, a resolute sense of self from which deep and enduring, not shallow and superficial, success can be found. It doesn’t eliminate striving but channels it in more meaningful and wholesome ways. It is less frantic and lends itself to more focus and fulfillment.

It almost feels like there is a sort of conspiracy to construct intelligence as a primarily individual trait, and hide the extent and depth of its social character from ourselves.

As writer Naomi Klein points out in On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, our “culture of the perpetual present” is not equipped to deal with the generations-long nature of the crisis.

Q: How integral was the lore? A: One of the cool things we talked about was how storytelling pulls you in in a more focused way than a set of instructions would. I think this world-building aspect helps you reframe things. You almost end up acting like a kid again: You have no restraints, you have this freedom, and you’re operating in this new... See more