Renee Frojo

Creation isn’t just about output. It’s a process of becoming. The best work shapes the maker as much as the audience. A founder builds a startup to prove they can. A writer wrestles an idea into clarity. You don’t just create heavy things. You become someone who can.

We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing.

You can only optimize so much, but you can care forever. Efficiency has limits, devotion doesn't.

Social media’s death rattle will not be a bang but a shrug.

These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content, but because the attention economy has neared its outer limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care. There is more to watch, read, click and react to than ever before — an endless buffet of stimulation. But novelty has become indistinguishable from noise. Every scroll brings... See more

The Japanese have this concept called wabi-sabi, which finds beauty in imperfection and impermanence. What if we applied that to morality?

Suppose our cracks are where the light gets in and stays.

There’s a frustration in feeling like every idea has already been picked apart by someone smarter, faster, and with a larger audience than you. For many, the impulse to add to the conversation is suffocated by their fear of redundancy. I’m sure a lot of us can relate to that—I know every time I go to write an essay, I feel like I’m just echoing... See more

It’s also understandable that some hesitate to step into the intellectual sphere today because it feels like everything has already been said and done. We live in a time where every thought, argument, counterargument, and counter -counterargument have already been made and analyzed. The modern landscape isn’t necessarily devoid of intellectuals,... See more