After publishing my last essay I received a beautiful letter from a friend who homesteads in Massachusetts. I will share it in full, changing only the names. * * * Good morning brother. As I read your latest essay this morning, I am ever more grateful for my EMBODIED life. I’ll share a little story […]
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Note to readers: I considered dividing this essay into seven parts, because it is long and in some places pretty dense. So set aside some time to drop in with it. It weighs in at over 8,000 words — just what they recommend to maximize virality. Or maybe that was 800 words. An audio version
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Actor, comedian, and Big Mouth creator Nick Kroll argues for the power of comedy in challenging times. In his monologue, Rushkoff wonders if adults may have lost the ability to tell our kids that our adult lives are better than their tortured adolescence. You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, It Doesn’t Get
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One of the most common questions I’ve been getting this week is from young investors (they wouldn’t call themselves investors, but they are) wondering why their crypto holdings are going down as fast or faster than the stock market. “But I bought all this Ethereum because I knew the market was about to crash,” one
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Yes, gas prices are up. I saw a woman fill up her old station wagon with premium the other day, and her pump total went over $90. “Ouch!” I said to her, smiling. “This damn inflation will be the end of us all,” she replied, then added “Let’s go Brandon,” (meaning Joe Biden should be
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I don’t like nice interfaces. I never have. I always found technologies easier to use when they don’t try to humanize themselves for me. Worse, when they do try to make themselves softer and squishier and “easier” for humans, I get concerned about losing touch with what they’re really doing for us and to us.
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Or maybe I will A couple years ago, in the heat of the Covid controversies, I wrote an article titled The Conspiracy Myth. I tried neither to debunk nor prove the conspiracy narrative around the origins of Covid. My thesis was that, like all myths, this narrative is a vehicle for hidden truths, psychological and social.
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The Connector journalist, activist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us find a better, healthier way to metabolize current events. In his monologue, Rushkoff offers a short, but concrete, set of answers about how we can confront our global crises. You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Rise to the
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I found myself actually bothered by Elon Musk’s tweets today. For the most part, I’ve ignored him the same way I ignore most of what happens on that platform. I check out my own highly curated list of users for links to interesting articles I may have missed, and try not to get fooled into
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Author of Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace Sue Thomas helps us recognize and restore the nature in our technology. In his monologue, Rushkoff reflects on Program or Be Programmed a decade after it was published. You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Program or Be Programmed, on Medium. Visit Sue Thomas’ website to learn
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