Tom White

“Tell me: why are these burnt-out mothers standing here, why are the people poor, why is the wee one poor, why is the land bare ... he also feels a tenderness such as he has never known before surging up in his heart, he wants to weep, he wants to do something for them all, so that the wee one will no longer cry.” - The Brothers Karamazov

“If exercise could be packaged in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation” - Dr Robert Butler at the National Institute of Aging.

As Steve Randy Waldman wrote, “ billionaire politics is about making human shields of the merely affluent. “

Short form videos sit at the intersection of flow and stillness. The natural result of this tension is a tearing of sorts, not only of our attention, but also of experience, itself.

Modern life is mismatched with the conditions humans evolved for.

Much of their advice, whether they frame it this way or not, is an attempt to correct evolutionary mismatch. Sleep earlier, receive early morning sunlight, move more, cultivate friendships, find purpose and meaning can all be understood as attempts to reduce the mismatch between... See more

Uncertainty is our basic state of existence, not something to be got through to the certainty beyond.

Writing is work I need to keep doing. It’s the part I most want to outsource, and that’s exactly why I can’t. I won’t automate it, because it’s a critical ingredient in who I want to be—someone who notices patterns, asks questions, thinks about the future, and shares what I find. Those are the things that make me a writer rather than someone who... See more