A Suburban Commons: Reclaiming the Village in a Disconnected Age
Not long ago, I drove through a sprawling suburban neighborhood where every house was a castle, every lawn a moat, and not a single person in sight.…
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Reality Engineering
Lily Tomlin once said that reality is just a collective hunch. She was right. We all squint at the world, shrug, and agree on what we think…
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You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy – or not
In recent years, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has sparked discussions with his assertion that in the future, people will “own nothing and…
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Notes from a Passive Luddite
We tend to think of resistance as something loud; people marching in the streets, waving signs, breaking things, shouting down systems. But there’s another kind of resistance,…
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Life, Tokenized – A Cautionary Tale
Noah Grayson awoke to the cold blue glow of his wrist implant, a silent reminder that every breath he took had a cost. He blinked away sleep…
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Living Authentically in the Concrete Jungle
If you’ve ever spent a long, quiet afternoon alone in nature, you may know the allure of Thoreau’s Walden. The idea of retreating to a quiet cabin…
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Karma – Is it a Real Thing?
The idea of karma (that actions have corresponding consequences) has been a cornerstone of many spiritual and philosophical traditions since the beginning of time. Rooted primarily in…
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On the Virtue of Problem-Solving
There are many ways to describe the drama of human existence. Some say life is a journey, others a battle, a test, a trial, or a performance.…
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Finding Home in the Rubble: Andrew Lee’s “Defying Displacement” Charts a Quiet Rebellion
In Defying Displacement, Andrew Lee has written a book that feels both timely and timeless, a meditation on the nature of belonging that never slips into sentimentality,…
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Escape wage slavery by creating your own economic mutual aid network
In today’s economic landscape, many people find themselves tethered to jobs that offer little satisfaction, often referred to as “wage slavery.” This term describes a condition where…