You Belong to the Universe: The Night Buckminster Fulle
In 1927, Buckminster Fuller stood at the edge of Lake Michigan, ready to end it all. What stopped him became the philosophy thatRead More
The Prado’s Gaze: What Old Paintings Teach About
I stopped moving in the Prado because a painting caught me. What a 500-year-old portrait, a golden map of Spanish exploration, and watercolorRead More
Facing Gethsemane: What the Garden Teaches About Accept
In 2006, Wells Jones and I stood among ancient olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane after a month crossing Middle Eastern deserts.Read More
Don’t let Stories like Gino Bartali’s Burn
At 29, Bartali wasn’t just an athlete. He was the most famous sports figure in Italy. A Tour de France champion. A multiple-timeRead More
Humans Don’t Process Life as Data — We Process It a
At Reflekta, we start from a simple truth: humans don’t process life as data. We process it as story. Not stories polished into parablesRead More
The Application Layer Is Underinvested
There’s a line I keep coming back to in Andrew Ng’s recent thinking on AI: the application layer is underinvested. Not misunderstood. NotRead More
Narrative, narrative, narrative.
Some weeks, a theme keeps showing up in my inbox until it demands a post. Lately, that theme has been narrative—who owns it,Read More
Humans Need Humans
Humans need humans. No matter how fast the models get, how crisp the renderings become, or how frictionless the interfaces feel, we’re still wiredRead More
I think Meta’s Avatars Are Missing One Thing: Soul
‘We invested $70 billion to discover that people don’t actually want to attend meetings as soulless cartoon avatars.’
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The Loneliness Epidemic: Why Connection Still Matters
A new APA poll reveals that one in three Americans feels lonely every week—proof that our hyperconnected world still leaves us longing forRead More