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Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”⁠

Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life

chapters 1 through 4 construct a detailed portrait of what life might be like within just ten or twenty years.

Abrahm Lustgarten • On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

When the conservative town of Ogdensburg, New York, lost its paper for two years recently, leaders there rallied to revive it. Republican leader James E. Reagen of St. Lawrence County suggested that misinformation spread more rapidly when the Ogdensburg paper shut down. “Once the Journal closed down so many people were turning to social media, to F... See more

How high school sports coverage can save democracy - Poynter

essay “The Delta Factor,” “Why does man feel so sad in the twentieth century? Why does man feel so bad in the very age when, more than in any other age, he has succeeded in satisfying his needs and making over the world for his own use?” Why are we “lost in the cosmos?” Why do we feel so deeply, if unconsciously, disconnected?

Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

With a few exceptions, by far the most important component of successful speech communities is that its moderators have faces . A core feature of bulletin boards, comment threads on blogs, and publications is that the boundaries of acceptable speech are enforced not by tech executives, the farcical Facebook Supreme Court,[xii] or distant buildings ... See more

Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs

Utopia Is Creepy

Nicholas Carr

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My latest column at The New Yorker is about the revenge of homepages: Why we're turning toward individual websites as the platform era of the internet continues to disintegrate.

I started working on this piece because I've found myself going to homepages more often. It's a way to get a controlled, curated look at what a publication offers, and a ch... See more

Green is very present in postmodern academic thinking, in nonprofits, and among social workers and community activists.

Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

Debates about ‘de-growth’ are very heated, and the Degrowth movement is often attacked by both conservatives and left-wingers I don’t pretend to have a resolution to the debate, but let me just add something for all parties to reflect on: If you define 'progress' as growth, then de-growth lo... See more

Brett Scott substack.com