Inside
I don’t know about you guys, but, um, you know, I’ve been thinking recently that… that you know, maybe, um, allowing giant digital media corporations to exploit the neurochemical drama of our children for profit… You know, maybe that was,…
leafyleaferson
Immortale
WOLF · Immortale- WOLF
Foodbank
While pensioners lug around crates of food, stoic and mobilised, to feed desperate families – somewhere out there is a young person, preoccupied and hurt by the lack of retweets or likes on their post. We crave what makes us…
Knowledge Work
The broad field of knowledge work is in a similar place today as the craft of cooking was in 1859. Our labor is difficult, but undervalued. We spend way too much time thinking about how to get things done, versus…
Open Source Insulin
Over my lifetime, the price of insulin in the US has risen ~15x, leading patients to ration doses to conserve it. A group of dedicated biohackers believe that making insulin more accessible requires taking the monopoly away from the big…
Life is Short
Life is short, so remember to be super serious, take everything personally and be outraged on a daily basis. /s
Building Change
It definitely seems that when change is more threatening than promising, everyone collectively hits the brakes. I’m not sure if that’s a lack of imagination, or perhaps even a correct risk-adjusted calculation. People just have less faith in the promise…
Larger Than Life
Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At the bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction – so easy to…
Community Power
There’s much to think about for the future. When I think about energy production, I see it as community-based. Imagine households taking a weekly walk to drop off food waste. In an anaerobic digester, bacteria breaks down the food waste…
Misbehaving
We experience life in terms of changes, we feel diminishing sensitivity to both gains and losses, but losses sting more than equivalently sized gains feel good.