Synchronicity This one is more of a “thinking” post than a “feeling” post. But it’s a good one to read. Synchronicity and meaning is something that is foundational to our […]
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Teach Them Our Ways
“Teach them our ways so that they do not suffer the shame of being useless.” Wow. What a line. It comes from the new Avatar: The Way of Water, and […]
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Welcome to the Age of Agency
Once again, I find myself opining on something I heard in a YouTube video recently. The age of knowledge is over.This is the age of agency. I’ve talked a lot, […]
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Surrender Is Not An Option
As the economy continues to worsen, the old system of get a job → cash your paycheck → live your life is going to become less and less common. And […]
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Content People Are Just Broken Consumers
As all great essays generally start (lol), I heard something very interesting on a YouTube podcast. I wish I could say that I was a voracious reader, but unfortunately, I’m […]
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From Mad Men to Influencers: How the Dream Ate Us
I don’t think Mad Men was ever really about nostalgia. I mean, It looked nostalgic. The suits. The cocktails. The cigarettes smoked ironically. But underneath it all was the warning […]
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The Map That Ate the Territory
Once upon a time – long, long ago – symbols pointed to things that actually existed. We knew what reality was. Or at least, we thought we did. We were […]
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Raison d’Être
There’s a French expression—raison d’être—that a lot of people in the English-speaking world have adopted. Literally, it means “one’s reason for being,” but English speakers tend to use it pretty […]
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Real Wealth Isn’t Monetary or Physical. It’s Social
I know. I hear it too. It sounds naive. Like something you’d find printed in cursive above an old hippie’s kitchen sink. But let’s not be quick to dismiss the […]