What Is Our Schelling Point
A Schelling Point is: a solution people naturally gravitate toward when they need to coordinate—without communicating—because it feels obvious, natural, or culturally salient. The world is coming…
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Deracinated; Are You Feeling Uprooted Too?
There’s this word: deracinated. What a glorious word. It sounds so fancy. Ooo la la. It actually comes from the French word “déraciner” meaning to uproot, root out, or extirpate.…
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What are You Signaling; and Why?
Signal. Signal. Signal. We Are All Signaling Now. The word signaling keeps showing up. And if you haven’t run across it yet, surely you will soon. You…
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The Current Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist is a word that means: the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas, beliefs, and practices of the…
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I Need a Fix, Man!
Seriously. Haven’t we had enough? Have you ever turned off your Wi-Fi and your cell phone for an entire hour? Maybe more. It’s blissful. It’s freeing. Like…
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What Really Motivates Us to Work
Social incentive to work versus monetary incentive to work We’re all familiar with the paradigm of a monetary incentive to work. It’s, basically, the way a society…
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Breadcrumbs in a Silent World
Synchronicity This one is more of a “thinking” post than a “feeling” post. But it’s a good one to read. Synchronicity and meaning is something that is…
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I See You
“I See You” One more essay inspired by the new Avatar movie. The greeting of the Na’vi is “I see you,” and this is so much more…
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Teach Them Our Ways
“Teach them our ways so that they do not suffer the shame of being useless.” Wow. What a line. It comes from the new Avatar: The Way…
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Welcome to the Age of Agency
Once again, I find myself opining on something I heard in a YouTube video recently. The age of knowledge is over.This is the age of agency. I’ve…