Kojo

Exaggerations happen. Nostalgia’s tyranny enslaves the unguarded and turns wishful thinkers into romantics.

“Is reading Faulkner going to make you a better person? Absolutely not,” writes Jessa Crispin, “but the whole universe wants you to be optimized, productive, monetized. And sitting around and reading a work of art when it is not your job to do so is a rebellious act that insists I am a human being, actually, and not a cog, not a good little worker,... See more

I often think and write about the importance of “world building” in today’s mixed-media reality: Brands have more control than ever over where and how consumers experience their point of view, from digital feeds and properties to packaging design and retail merchandising. And with that comes many new opportunities to build emotional texture.

Prior work has linked curiosity to happiness and innovation—two phenomena that are highly desirable in many cultures and societies. Curiosity is correlated with flourishing and physical activity, and is anticorrelated with depression.22 Moreover, curious people are often innovative people who have the capacity to be world changers by imagining a

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we need a worldview that acknowledges that humans, for the foreseeable future, will always be the powerful party, deciding what needs to be done. We need a narrative that brings together two seemingly contradictory facts. The first is that we are part of the animal kingdom: our evolutionary ancestors were nonhumans; we care about other animals; we... See more

Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto a bag stuffed with a jumble of independent traits that helped our ancestors thrive.