Health & Modern Life The ROI of a Civilization Remember when you were a kid and you thought adults had it all figured out? You assumed the people running governments, corporations, and institutions were extraordinary. They were the brightest minds in the room. Someone, somewhere, was thinking ten steps ahead. Then you grow up. You enter the workforce. You
Work & Purpose Modern Life Isn’t The Norm. It’s The Experiment Modern life is a bit of a trip when you think about it. We get up at the crack of dawn, get suited and booted. Drop the kids off with relative strangers where they will, at best, learn something useful and, at worst, be managed by other adults so we
Work & Purpose Unpopular Opinion: There Are No More Heroes One of the shows that has lived rent free in my brain for the last ten years is The Walking Dead. Not because of the zombies. But because of the thought experiment it inspired. What if something happened that was disruptive enough to shut down the systems we rely on
Work & Purpose I Used to Think Freedom Was Reckless People get uncomfortable when you vocalize your desire to step outside conventional systems and build a different kind of life. They become defensive of the structures they’ve poured so much of their own blood, sweat, and tears into. It’s almost as though the sunk cost fallacy applies to
Work & Purpose Maybe the Mid-life Crisis Isn’t a Crisis The script is as follows: * Get good grades * Go to university * Get a good job * Get married * Buy a house * Have kids ← I am here * Retire at 65 * Die They told us we’d be happy. This is just how you do life. This is all there is. If you
