The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter... See more
Continuous education: We need some version of SoulCycle, but for learning, something community-driven where people feel it as a piece of their identity.
Good ideas appear out of nowhere, from seemingly unrelated concepts coming together and creating a new thought in your head. You can't force this process, your job is to recognize when they show up and take advantage of them.
In short, technology made it much easier to clean a house to 1890s standards. But by mid-century, Americans didn’t want that old house. They wanted a modern home—with delicious meals and dustless windowsills and glistening floors—and this delicious and dustless glisten required a 40-to-50-hour workweek, even with the assistance of modern tools.