This week I started a new class at the School For Social Design. They’re teaching me how to be more articulate about my values, so I can design social systems that scale without succumbing to meaninglessness. The first reading assignment is Joe Edelman’s essay Four Social Worlds, presenting 4 lenses to observe any social situation:

Earlier this summer I spent a week in a Black Forest hotel with 75 tenderhearted nerds from Twitter. I had an extremely good time. I’ve spent the last 6 weeks wondering how to tell the story, but it’s so hard to write, a million layers of meaning densely woven together, almost impossible to untangle into

My wife Nati and I love to get slightly too high on caffeine and have deep & hilarious conversations. Sometimes we wonder if it might be interesting for other people to listen in. The other day we recorded one of these conversations, and today we’re sharing it as an experiment. In this recording, I’m trying

Yesterday when the mushrooms came on I tried to enter the perspective of a deer. What is it like to be a deer? I guess they don’t think very much like us. There is some decision making I’m sure, but it’s not structured into an ideology. I don’t think the deer is self-conscious, it’s not