I don’t think we discover things as much anymore. We get handed them. A movie because you watched another movie. A song because it sounds like the last song. A restaurant because everyone else is going there. A book because it showed up on your feed. The algorithm has gotten really good at predicting what…
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Access ≠ connection
Technology has made it easier than ever to reach people. It hasn’t necessarily made us closer. I can send a text, a voice note, an email, a meme, a reel, or react to someone’s story without thinking twice. I know what friends ate for dinner, where my coworkers went on vacation, and what my cousin’s…
What’s the rush
Somewhere along the way, everything became urgent. Every email is marked high priority. Every sale ends tonight. Every notification shows up red. Every package needs to arrive tomorrow. Every headline is breaking news. Everything is competing to convince you it deserves your attention before anything else does. The problem is that urgency loses its meaning…
The older I get, the more I appreciate boring
When I was younger, “boring” was one of the worst things something could be. A boring weekend. A boring job. A boring relationship. A boring movie. A boring life. It was synonymous with wasting time. The older I get, the more I’ve realized I was using the wrong definition. A boring flight means it landed…
How art helps us express what words can’t
Art is often described as healing, but I don’t think the healing comes from the finished painting, photograph, poem, or sculpture. It comes from the process of making decisions about something that isn’t measured by productivity. There isn’t a correct answer, a checklist, or a deadline to beat. You’re simply responding to an idea, a…