Short Essays Collection # 11
We Must All “Unself” Iris Murdoch coined the term “Unselfing”. A really beautiful idea. It’s not a dramatic renunciation of “self” so much as an exacting labor…
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“Tribe” by Sebastian Junger
Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a short but surprisingly heavy book about something most modern societies have lost: a deep sense of belonging. Junger’s central idea is…
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Humanity Is Unwilling to Change
Here’s a brief conversation between two characters in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. (I bring it up at the beginning of this essay because…
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Building a Collapse Community
There’s something that I say so often, I sound like a broken record: It’s better to be proactive rather than reactive. Sounds simple enough. Most people would…
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Community Fosters Accountability; and Agency
Not long after starting a community resource center, I began wondering if charity alone was really the best way to address the needs coming in week after…
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Prophets in the Screen
The Wachowskis (Lana and Lilly) have made a career out of showing us “realities” that we never knew existed – assuming that they do. The Matrix. V…
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From Content… To Quality
In the modern Internet-based economy, it’s inevitable that everything be paywalled. The economy is becoming more and more built on information, and the only way to monetize…
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What You’ve Actually Done
I’ve been thinking about something lately. How much of what we “know” these days comes from watching rather than doing. We listen to podcasts. Watch videos. Read…