PinnedLessons of the Ukraine WarMaybe our worldview could use a rethink — I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the Ukraine war and what we can learn from it. I don’t mean learn in a military sense though. There are lots of others talking about that. …Ukraine10 min readUkraine10 min read
Aug 1Cultures Aren’t Isolated Islands and That’s a Good ThingThere’s an idea, a conservative one, that adopting new ideas and aspects of other cultures is a bad idea, or even a sort of cultural betrayal. The irony is people who think like that live their daily lives relying on many ideas from other cultures and they don’t realize it…Culture4 min readCulture4 min read
Jul 18So You’re About to Inherit the World“Make the world a better place.” If anything should be printed in the instruction manual of the world it’s that. You’re going to inherit this big ball of water and land and people and cities and cultures and nations and history. …Politics6 min readPolitics6 min read
Jul 4Why Optimism WinsIf you want to sound intelligent, be a pessimist. If you want to make the world a better place, be an optimist. I saw something on Twitter that grabbed my attention and connected with a feeling I’ve had for a long time about what it means to be optimistic about…Life Lessons5 min readLife Lessons5 min read
May 10, 2021Recovering the Time We’ve LostThe end of the pandemic is in sight. It isn’t here yet, but we can see it. A question on the minds of millions around the world is, “how do I recover what I lost in 2020 and 2021?” We’ve all lost something. For some, usually the wealthy, it was…Pandemic5 min readPandemic5 min read
