Four insights into consciousness from Michael Pollan’s "A World Appears."
Tag: human nature
What to Do When Life Shows Up Uninvited
Take a moment to appreciate the pinafores and listen to the lollygags.
How Do You Stay Hopeful?
The philosopher Ernst Bloch argued that hope is woven into the fabric of reality. Here’s a brief look at his big ideas, plus prompts to get you thinking and writing (hopefully).
Sometimes the Deep Magic Prevails
Reflections from a wedding on a Blue Ridge mountainside.
What AI Will Never Know About Ice Cream, June 1981, and Everything Before or Since
Despite regular claims to the contrary, AI Does Not Have Access to All of Human Knowledge — and It Never Will
You Gotta Help
It is not your job alone to save the world. But it is your job—it is all of our job—to help.
Love and Other Essentials
Love isn’t really all you need. But it’s right up there.
Check Your Lenses
Different tools enable different types of seeing and thinking.
When You Catch Yourself Looking Down on Others, Look Up
It’s only human to look down on others. But it’s hard to move onward or upward when you’re looking downward.
From the Inside Out and the Outside In
We humans understand each other asymmetrically. But that's a good enough place to start.
