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…
Social and Self-Help
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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…
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Mutually One-Way
I started exploring this subject with the following short essay… Parasocial Relationships I heard someone mention this word recently, and I thought it was interesting. “Para,” in…
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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…
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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…
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Novelty. What?
I never used to think much about the word novelty. It generally lived in the same mental drawer as snow globes and joke ties. You know… A…
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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…
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What Is Our Schelling Point
A Schelling Point is: a solution people naturally gravitate toward when they need to coordinate—without communicating—because it feels obvious, natural, or culturally salient. The world is coming…
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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.…
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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…