Natalie Audelo

“You cannot monetise a man staring at rain. You can sell him a meditation app that promises the rain-staring will lower his cortisol and improve his q

I can think of many other examples of this semantic creep. Leisure becomes ‘recreation’ and now implies a purposeful activity designed to restore you.

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 happiness asks whether a life is going well, and satisfaction asks whether you’ve done something well, gratification asks what it feels like to be

The cost of convenience is vitality. You can have a lot of things done for you in the modern world — and many of them are great time savers! — but the

“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand

To love humans is not optimism; it requires an unrelenting, deliberate faith, the stubborn act of catching every dropped match and insisting it can st