Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
Dads and moms both love their children deeply, but differently.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
The key to overcoming this precondition is to make writing a multi-pass process. Visual art is multi-pass: artists start with a rough sketch that captures the general idea for their composition. Then they go through and do a more detailed sketch, turning the rough lines into recognizable features, fiddling with proportions and placement until each... See more
On Writing and Why write?
Writing is iterative!
People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 Aggregation theory
The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners (Published 2023)
nytimes.com
even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child’s chance of dropping out of high school.5
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise
Mentorship and Community
Dad deprivation still leaves boys vulnerable to Nazis—these days, neo-Nazi groups.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Like girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to... See more
We’re here to grow and we’re here to serve. We’re in this crisis of happiness, purpose, and meaning. The easiest way out of that is to give of yourself to others. We tend to overcomplicate these things, but that’s the easiest shortcut to experiencing what we all want most and seem to lack the most now. We conflate the word service with philanthropy... See more