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“'Philosophy is best understood as a form of plumbing’, she wrote in her nineties. It is a ‘way in which we service the deep infrastructure of our liv
And so we arrive at the edge of something old disguised as something new. The problem of meaning. It is not a bug of civilization, it is its first fea
We don’t just need better models. We need to revisit first principles. What is a good life? What is a just society? What kind of human do we want to b
raw material: I’ve spent a good part of 10 years wondering what real world value my philosophy degree really had. I’ve started to think of it more as
We MVP’ed everything, but we also cared deeply about craft. And somehow, that mix of scrappiness and attention to detail shaped what Tally is today.
There is beauty in something well-made. The fine fit of a tailored suit. The delicate stitching of a vibrant rug. The mechanical elegance of a well-tu
Branding is the gap between the idea of a thing and the thing in itself.
A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service, or organization. It exists in the hearts and minds of individuals.
Bubbling excitement for what the day holds. Novelty in the smallest of things. Unburdened by the clouds of worry that dim an adults life. Possibility
Beauty saves us by keeping us human enough to remain in a world that often feels inhuman. It is the thin, golden thread, the Songline, that leads us b
The contemporary crisis is not simply political, ecological, or psychological, it is perceptual. We see more than any generation before us and yet fee
It wounds us because it reminds us of the distance between the world as it is and the world as it ought to be. This is why beauty is inherently danger
Beauty acts as that great psychic liver, filtering the toxins of existence and turning the raw material of pain into the refined gold of meaning.
The world today is fractured by a “failure of imagination.” We find it easier to imagine the end of the world than a world that is beautiful. We have
The feeling that comes with new life. Hope. Possibility. A continuation of our forms. A way to outlast the constraints of our conscious time. Can I ho
The Seventh Wonder of the modern world is a human child, any child. I used to wonder about childhood and the evolution of our species. It seemed to me
EXPANSIVE RELATIONSHIPS (SPHERICAL) there are different states of matter. people can be flat or spacious and by being in relationship to them you can
everyone wants you to live your best life until you’re actually living your best life. Then you become hateable. I could see my own participation in t
Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I
The project I'm doing is basically turning myself into a certain type of person who is able to have these thoughts. The essays are kind of just exhaus
The word “essay” comes from the French “essayer” — to try, to attempt. Michel de Montaigne, who invented the form in the 16th century, wasn’t showing
the goal is not to separate the strands, it's to document the tangle. (Ann Friedman)
You are daring to imagine that you could have a different life. Oh, I know it doesn't feel like that. You feel like a big fat failure now. But you're
What was the goal of experience, aside from some feminist reclamation? It was an attempt to encounter as much of the world as possible, to soak up oth
Adult life, I’ve decided, is about cohesion. Which is to say it’s about conflict, trade-offs. The ability to acknowledge parts of your psyche you aren
the people who actually move the world are not the ones preaching “action items.” they’re myth engineers. they alter the perceptual surface everyone e
Any situation is fixable if you’re good with words because words literally make up the meaning infrastructure, control the traffic of desire, and reor
Sometimes there are times in our lives of incredible intensity, of crazy love or change or unbelievable grief, and then also there are fallow years wh
On the one hand, I want to encourage you in your grief, so that you may fully experience it in all its depth. For as an encounter with a new intensity
“Give to someone only as much of you they are able to receive. If their vessel isn’t spacious enough to hold all of you, there will only be an overflo
Admitting that everything hurts your feelings is the first tiny step to preventing you from entering fight or flight mode. It’s not about scratching o
A lot of stories are just a way we punish ourselves using our own brains. It takes a long time to train yourself out of that habit of bad storytelling
the physics of attention attention behaves like gravity. it pulls hardest where it’s least returned. whoever cares less sets the field. the disinteres
“It’s terrifying to accept the essential otherness of the people we care for. But what is even more terrifying is admitting to yourself that in spite
Because maybe there really are only a couple of people in this world I can go to unguarded and safe with all the pieces. But I’ve been realising what
the neckerchief compounded how stupid and lacking in dignity you felt and you vowed to never again wear any article of clothing that you could not sur
Dandelions don’t know whether they are a weed or a brilliance. But each seed can create a field of dandelions. We are invited to be that prolific. And
“There are nearly endless opportunities to improve each day and finding them largely boils down to being curious. People who are better in the end
You are born with this weird interiority that no one else can see.You can’t see it either at first. But if you run enough experiments you get a sense