I Am a Witness to Real Value
Most Americans rarely stop to think about what has real value. We’ve been trained our whole lives to think of value in terms of money. How much…
Culture
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Am I the Catcher in the Rye?
The Catcher in the Rye follows a few restless days in the life of Holden Caulfield, a disillusioned sixteen-year-old boy who has just been expelled from yet…
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Systems Need to Be Bottom-Heavy (not top-heavy)
Popular thought has always been that systems should be top-heavy. That strength comes from centralization. From concentration. From a few people at the top carrying the weight…
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RE-COMMUNITY: Re-Seeding Social Deserts
What if the future of struggling communities isn’t charity… but re-seeding? Not just with money. Not just with programs. But with the actual conditions required for healthy…
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Living Together at Scale (is it even possible?)
I’ve been obsessed with a question lately, Not a new one, really. Not mine, even. How do human beings live together at scale without destroying one another?…
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Find the Courage to Dream
The hardest part of pursuing a dream is being brave enough to dream in the first place… believing in yourself enough to think that maybe you can…
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What is Real Merit?
My work is founded on the premise that the current system doesn’t reward merit; it rewards capital. And the two are not the same thing. A person…
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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…