Essay
We’re Going on a Stag Hunt
A storytelling approach to economics Cooperation is the best possible solution, so why are humans so frequently bad at it?
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Essay
Our longest-running shelf: first-person essays that follow one small experience out into the bigger questions it drags along behind it.
Essay
Potentia Innocentiae: The Power of Innocence
Co-winner of the 2nd Annual Alexander Phillips Arete Award Surging against the impacted and ossified rules of the Old Order of “might makes right,” a massive wave of insightful thought is on the rise — worldwide.
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Zen
Sleeping With Ants
or: Zen, Anthony Bourdain, and Ant-Commandos. In which our hero discovers he is never alone.
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Zen
We Owe the World our Attention
And our attention can change the world. Climate change, refugee crisis, nuclear proliferation — what if we could help change all this with one simple shift in our thinking?
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History
The Cigarmakers of Cuba and the New Information Revolution
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ― Frederick Douglass Learning from past revolutions in information literacy, can we develop a model that suits the 21st century?
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Essay
Freedom from Freedom (for Freedoms’s Sake!)
“Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.” ― Terry Pratchett This is about understanding that the individual is stronger if the whole is also stronger.
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Zen
Tidying up with Zen
Thoughts on Marie Kondo, then, and learning to live the life you have. Meditating is actually about taking care of the life you live in now. This is what Zen master Dogen said: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Communication
Learn to Be a Jedi Communicator
A concise guide to communicating compassionately both online and off. Our greatest impact in the world is made through our relationships with other people — how we communicate, how we comport ourselves when we communicate, changes the world around us.
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Essay
Writing Beyond Your Genre
How a book on graphic novel writing changed my perspective of narrative craft.
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Politics
Bernie Sanders and the New American Age
Bernie Sanders is considering a new bid for President of the United States of America and we should all be paying very close attention. Bernie Sanders is considering a new bid for President of the United States of America and we should all be paying very close attention.
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