Humans Humans have always been shitty. Now we’re just shitty – at scale. What is Left As I continue to work my way through The Good Doctor, the episode I’m […]
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Upstream Is Not Charity; When Doing Good Makes Financial Sense
For most of modern nonprofit history, we’ve raised money by telling stories of need. We show the hungry child. The overwhelmed mother. The struggling family. And we say: “Look. Help. […]
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Swimming the Mississippi of Life
Sometimes I think living in this world is like floating down the Mississippi River. You didn’t choose the river. You didn’t choose the century. You didn’t choose the current speed […]
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The Party is Over
Since the end of World War II—and with the birth of the mass marketing industry—we have been slowly replacing connection with consumption. Our lives used to be about people. About […]
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Why Small Communities are the Survival Strategy of the Future
This is an edited and recycled piece from the past. Enjoy. It doesn’t take an economist to see what’s happening. We all know that we’re in the beginning stages of […]
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Loneliness Capitalism
I just ran across a video on YouTube titled Loneliness Capitalism. That’s awesome. What an interesting idea. And no, I don’t mean loneliness is awesome, or that loneliness capitalism is […]
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Entropy and the Cost of Holding Things Together
Entropy is a word that sounds scientific enough to be safely ignored by most. A physics term, yes. A classroom idea, maybe. Something about heat death and disorder that has […]
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Welcome to the Real World
Authenticity. I’m driving around town right now, running errands, listening to a podcast on a YouTube channel called Re-Tribalize. The guy has an interesting foundational concept, even if the execution […]
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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. It literally refers […]
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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 find it in […]