Culture

Essays that explore how humans understand their world and each other

Fathers, don’t frustrate your children…

Culture • One Comment

It was late at night and I was standing in my kitchen, cooking bacon and crying. I was cooking...
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Practical Imagination: An Essential Startup Skill

Culture

I was thinking today about the “soft skills” of business and particularly entrepreneurship. Much is made of the often amorphous...
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Life Is Short

Culture, zen • One Comment

So it is — the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it. Just as great and...
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21st Century Profiles

Culture

Louis himself is the continuity: his jittery consciousness, floating through the aftermath of...
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What do I want to do when I grow up?

Culture, zen

If you’re reading these words and you’re not an archiving bot sifting through the digital detritus of the early internet a...
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The Distributed Water Cooler

Culture

  I came in to work today expecting to hear a lot of chatter about the death of Osama Bin Laden. However, instead I find we’re...
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Rohto Eyes

Culture

I had forgotten about this video I made a couple months ago (back when my hair was still long.)...
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Facebook Is Stone Soup – Part One

Culture

I’m sure you’ve heard the old story of Stone Soup — either through a reading assignment in elementary school or perhaps...
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as the drain swirls

Culture

We have a system in place that rewards power with power; corporations, political parties, the media all feed off each other in a vicious...
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Gilligan goes to the movies

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Last night, Amanda, Max and I went to see Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. It was a funny movie,...
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