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On a whim during the time we lived in Pittsburgh, I started a WhatsApp group called “last-minute kiddie plans” and invited a few friends with kids. Th

At Gertrude’s, I’ve gotten to know a group of people I might never see outside the walls of the restaurant. It’s community building in the most basic

By the final minutes of the game, most people had filtered out, while a few—the true friends, the literal family, and us—hovered around the projection

Maybe the true challenge of our time isn’t deciding whether to have children, but rediscovering how to live together, creating networks of care that s

At Gertrude’s, I’ve gotten to know a group of people I might never see outside the walls of the restaurant. It’s community building in the most basic

By the final minutes of the game, most people had filtered out, while a few—the true friends, the literal family, and us—hovered around the projection

Musician Brian Eno once coined a word for these interpersonal dynamics, crucial for nurturing creativity: scenius. Combining ‘scene’ with ‘genius’, th

At Gertrude’s, I’ve gotten to know a group of people I might never see outside the walls of the restaurant. It’s community building in the most basic

By the final minutes of the game, most people had filtered out, while a few—the true friends, the literal family, and us—hovered around the projection

That’s what stays with me now when people talk about AI like it arrived from somewhere outside humanity, as though it descended fully formed from the

“[The Internet] has been overdeveloped and undergoverned. Like cities that have prioritized cars over people, visiting the Internet now entails contro

The average AI programmer in the US makes $160,000 per year.The average preschool teacher makes $37,000.We’ve decided that it’s 4x more valuable to tr

If you want to untangle something, like string or a cord, focus on adding as much “looseness” as you can rather than trying to untangle it. -Kevin Kel

"The way I think about coaching is very much how I think about parenting. Your ability to drive change is down to the quality of your relationship, no

Underrated life advice: When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do... get organized and get to work. The rest is just no

Average looks out. Elite looks in

Most of us get decked somewhere along the way in life, slammed to the ground, the world looking down on us. And when—not if, when—that happens, we hav

“What’s the point of having fuck you money if you never say ‘fuck you’?”

This planet is tended by innumerable invisible hands. When progress feels undetectable, I remind myself that much of life plays out on unseen stages.

The next stage of human economy will parallel what we are beginning to understand about nature. It will call for the gifts of each of us; it will emph

That animals seemingly anticipate events should humble us more. Changes in groundwater chemistry, electromagnetic fields and sound waves make animals

As defined by Photoplay, It was a “sort of invisible aura that surrounds your being and bathes you in its effulgence” — and anyone with It is “always

she had the same bald enthusiasm for life

The end game was never convenience but a texture-rich life that challenges and rewards us. Not happiness as a frictionless state, but satisfaction ear

The moat of low status is one of my favorite concepts, courtesy of my husband Sasha. The idea is that making changes in your life, especially when lea

what would one imperfect action teach me?

Writer Hanif Abdurraqib has said: “Find a living, breathing lineage to make yourself responsible to.” I love this encouragement to locate ourselves wi

What if those words — “this is well within the realm of normal” — are actually the kindest and most loving gift we can offer you when you are in the c

And I do not want more doors—I want to walk through one without looking back. I want to love something long enough to feel it love me in return. I wan

There’s a phrase making the rounds online: “The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.” I’ve been wondering if its resonance reveals a quiet fatigu

As you well know, my dear, when you are in the actual inferno or emergency — meaning when life becomes bigger than you can handle, unmanageable and ex

Oldster Magazine is about people (of all genders) getting older. (I’m using the term “oldster” subversively, because I want to question who we conside

Here’s the most important reason I include people of all ages: I am trying to de-stigmatize and normalize the effects of aging by showing that it’s ha

Why am I so sure about this?

What is this teaching me?

Scott Alexander’s recent post argues that the best response to AI displacement isn’t optimization or doomerism—it’s play. Figure out what you actually

what would one imperfect action teach me?

I am a thousand almosts, held together by hesitation; a gallery of repainted selves.

I am grieving a life I’ve been disloyal to; too busy auditioning for all the ones I could have instead.

Robin Williams - I used to think that the worst thing in life is to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make

the deeper you go into any one thing, the more you find everything else quietly waiting there. steve reich discovered this in music: "whatever you pur

The good listener: someone who has learnt how to find bits of themselves in the experiences of others.