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David
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We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — the songs, the movies, the holidays, the grand gestures, the heartbreak, the drama. Love gets worshipped. Love gets...
Lately I've been thinking about people—their motivations, how we read them, what they do and don't do, what they say and leave unsaid. I don't have a finished theory, but I'm noticing patterns worth exploring. Careful observation gives...
A few bright spots from 2025. Last summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In. It came out of a period of cultural vertigo, blaring headlines, dissolving norms—and my stubborn refusal...
Somewhere in the past decade or two (pick your own cultural ruin-marker), it stopped being a side quirk that people don't listen and became a full-blown civic emergency, an extinction-level collapse of attention, curiosity, and the basic...
Sometimes the mind underlines things before you know why. You jot down a quote, a song lyric, something someone said, something that strikes you as important, then another, then another, and before you realize it you’re keeping a private...
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. -Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century later, I can’t help but wonder if those same eyes might be the only thing that could set us free. Last week I posted the...
On May 20, 1999, just after five in the morning, my daughter was born. If you've been in that room, you know. Reality splits clean in two. Awe, terror, love, relief, all of it flooding in at once. The room erupting with her furious...
Some mornings the mirror is a customs agent. Papers, please. I present a face I didn't consciously choose and a biography I didn't audition for. Born into a longitude, assigned to a specific moment in history, stamped by the weather of a...
Uncertainty. Do you endure it, bend it to your will, or let it consume you whole? Do you shrink in its presence hoping it'll pass you by and knock on someone else's door? What about fear, anger, resentment? Does it paralyze you? Freeze...
The next BIG thing in tech just might be fixing the mess created by the current BIG thing in tech. -Ted Gioia from a recent piece From Rubble to Reckoning When World War II ended, the guns and tanks fell silent but the devastation was...
This piece is an update and follow up to my August 26th piece, Looking Sideways: Comments on Markets, Mimetics and the Madness of Crowds. The real economy looks shaky, at best. Inflation remains persistently above the 2% target and the...
The collapse of shared reality and the fragile possibility of rebuilding it. Essays in this edition: The Death of Truth by a Thousand Cuts On Play and Laughter To Rebuild Our Shared Reality The Next Big Thing Will Be Cleaning Up the Mess...
Corruption, fragility, and unseen incentives shaping our world. Essays in this edition: Conspiracy of Interests Steel Lions; Glass Lambs App Store Rotting at the Core i. Conspiracy of Interests Scott Horton—libertarian radio host and...
The burden of consciousness — intelligence, certainty, sorrow, and relief. Essays in this edition: Certainty Epidemic Would You Rather Be Happier or Smarter? The Quiet Grace of Nothing Terrible Happening Today i. Certainty Epidemic If...
Strategy, hierarchy, chance, and control from social games to geopolitics. Essays in this edition: Smiling Assassins Entangled: The New Geopolitik Backgammon's Ancient Dice, Modern Lessons i. Smiling Assassins In fragile hierarchies, the...