Is Being Too Comfortable Bad?
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter. Let’s take a look at the general ideas: Human beings evolved in conditions…
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It’s More than Just “Capacity”
A lot of modern ideology assumes humans are infinitely interchangeable units with equal ability to navigate complexity independently. But lived reality says otherwise. People vary tremendously in…
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The Economics of Solvents and Nutrients
Ernesto Van Peborgh once offered a metaphor that is, frankly… very cool. (And, thank you to Kelly Clark for telling me about it.) He suggested that extractive…
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Nos Misérables
I’m watching Les Misérables and it is… tearing my heart. Is there a better depiction of the human social condition? A raw testament of how money and…
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Cordyceps: The Neural Network that Controls You by Marina Karlova
There’s an interesting YouTuber that I’ve been watching who discusses her ideas on the ills of society. And a lot of what she talks about overlaps with…
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You Are What You Eat; Even the Junk
One of the strangest things I noticed when I lived in France wasn’t the history, or even the slower pace of life. It was the Doritos. I’m serious.…
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Eco-Civilization
Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All is, at its core, an argument that humanity’s crises are not separate crises at all. Climate collapse. Loneliness. Economic…
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Short Essays Collection # 12
I Imagine and Re-imagine Community Social Safety Nets… Social safety nets that are community-based systems able to catch those who fall through the cracks of the larger…
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Modern Life and Our Dopamine Addiction
We carry in our pockets little glowing machines that can instantly show us war, collapse, outrage, scandal, disaster, betrayal, economic panic, social conflict, and existential dread… twenty-four…
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Short Essays Collection # 4
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,…