Philip Soriano
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Philip Soriano
The commerce of masculinity is the trading of wit-covered put-downs. Your son will experience it in junior high school. And he’ll experience it even more powerfully if he joins a fraternity. Despite the negative stereotypes, fraternity brothers often bond for a lifetime, sometimes becoming among the few long-lasting friends men have.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
The future of our creations, especially AI, depends on whether we design them as extensions of our highest aspirations or unwitting amplifiers of our unexamined shadows.
Where am I going with design? That's a hard question because none of us has the ability to understand our path until it's over.
On the Shoulders of Giants
We want him to be assertive, but not aggressive; to be empathetic, but not naive; to be “a doer,” but also introspective; to be perseverant, but not stubborn; to be prepared, but not obsessive; to help people, but not enable them . . .
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Thats a lot to straddle!
Writer and artist Austin Kleon uses two desks: an “analog” desk for generating ideas by hand, and a “digital” desk for refining work on a computer
Dad deprivation still leaves boys vulnerable to Nazis—these days, neo-Nazi groups.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Organizations rarely fail because people lack confidence. They fail because no one is willing, or able, to say no.
I recognize the irony here of describing understanding through words, and you being the person that’s internalizing it as knowledge. But with that said, therein lies the value of writing. Writing is an attempt to share your lived experience with others, which makes you face the blind spots in your own thinking in real-time. When you write, it... See more