The Road to Perdition
What happens when the decadence that has, for so long, lingered beneath the surface of a culture finally comes fully into view? Things once kept in the…
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Are You Compassionate?
“Most people trust that the compassion they feel for others will be acted upon by someone else, while they sit at home congratulating themselves for having felt…
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The Iceberg Killed No One
Everyone knows the story of the Titanic. Big ship hits an iceberg, sinks, lots of people die. And the culprit, the focus of the story, is usually……
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Needs Cannot Be Reduced to Mere Categories: Why Reductionist Systems Fail
“Why do reductionist systems fail to address human needs?” Reductionist systems fail because human needs are interconnected and rarely fit neatly into institutional categories. When decisions are…
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Buridan’s Ass: Precarity is So Much More Than Just Scarcity
A Comprehensive Look At Community Stability Programs There’s an old philosophical thought experiment called Buridan’s Ass. Basically, there’s a donkey standing between food and water. He’s hungry…
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The Subscription Life: When Ownership Became a Rental Agreement
It certainly appears that the subscription economy, which we had all been sucked into kicking and screaming (initially), is now actively (d)evolving into the subscription life. This…
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Context Collapse: Why We’re Losing the Story Behind the Story
One of the greatest challenges of our time isn’t misinformation, per se. It’s missing information. More specifically, it’s missing context. Context collapse is what happens when information…
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On the Value of Attention
I’ve written before that money isn’t value. Money is a claim on value. The two are related, but they’re not the same thing. We often confuse the…
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Seashell Ear Thimbles
One of the most prophetic images in Fahrenheit 451 isn’t the book burning, though that’s at the top of the list; It’s the seashell ear thimbles. Bradbury…
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The Monetization Hamster Wheel
There was a time when the word monetization sounded sophisticated to me. It had the same sort of glow as passive income or thought leader. These were…