The One Resource That Grows When You Share It
Thomas Malthus believed humanity would eventually run into the hard limits of the natural world. And he wasn’t wrong. Clearly, every physical resource has a limit. Water.…
Health and Wellness
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New Insights on Capacity
I’ve spent much of my career thinking I was trying to solve problems. Whether they be… Poverty. Homelessness. Healthcare. Food insecurity. Community. And those are indeed worthy…
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Bearing Witness to Love
For years, I’ve thought of myself as someone who serves the poor. But I’m beginning to wonder if that’s not one layer off. Perhaps my vocation is…
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Building the Ne’er-Do-Well Generation
I saw the phrase ne’er-do-well this morning and felt; there’s something to be said about this idea. In the nineteenth-century Australasian colonies, it referred to young British…
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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Really?
When we encounter someone living in chronic need, there’s often an unspoken question lingering beneath the surface. How much of their situation was caused by their choices?…
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You Can’t Just Lean on a Shovel and Pray for a Hole.
I guess it sounds obvious when you say it that way. But, people do it all the time. We hope for better relationships while isolating ourselves from…
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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…