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I publish on Substack under the name "How Shall We Live?" — essays on the metacrisis, coordination failures, spiritual development, and the question of what we owe each other and the future. Subscribe to get new pieces in your inbox.
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Metacrisis: The root of all our planetary crises
What Climate change, AI risk, the mental health epidemic & more have in common
How to Respond When the World Unravels
Grief, hope and the communities quietly building what comes next
UBI is a pacifier leading us to mass enslavement and death
Why AI driven automation coupled with a cold ecological calculus & democratic backsliding leave the working class to die
Beyond Outrage: Build the Alternative
Why violence fails and how building a better system beats tearing down the old one
Culture Change is Upstream of Systems Change
How telling new stories can help heal our world
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The Drums of War Come Home
A poem about resisting cruelty and fear in an age of collapse
The Annoying Business of Living (or Merry Christmas)
How light unexpectedly pierces the darkness of these times
Embracing grief to live more fully
A conversation on how accepting loss & imperfection is key to a meaningful live
An invitation to explore grief as a doorway to wholeness
Join us to find out how letting yourself grieve fully can transform your life
UBI is a pacifier leading us to mass enslavement and death
Why AI driven automation coupled with a cold ecological calculus & democratic backsliding leave the working class to die
Culture Change is Upstream of Systems Change
How telling new stories can help heal our world
Charlie Kirk’s Death Is Not an Outlier. It’s the Pattern
How perverse incentives and a culture of vitriol make violence inevitable
"Be Grateful" is Terrible Advice
For everyone who has tried gratitude journaling and felt nothing
The invisible prison of self-hatred
How we are often the architects of our own demise
How to Fix Democracy
A deep dive into updating democracy for the 21st century with Ilya Kreynin
Laughing in the Face of Impossible Odds
How 4 Billion Years of Defiance Have Prepared Us for This Moment
Beyond Outrage: Build the Alternative
Why violence fails and how building a better system beats tearing down the old one
How to Respond When the World Unravels
Grief, hope and the communities quietly building what comes next
Why Everyone Is Angry: A Data Dive Into the Broken Social Contract
What education, housing, healthcare and income data reveals about a society on edge
Gossip could save the world
Surprising Harvard research reveals how storytelling can drive culture change and help us coordinate better
What Does a Just Society Actually Look Like?
Balancing individualism & collectivism to build a world of equal opportunity
Beyond Good And Evil: The Limitations of Morality
Why Absolute Moral Judgments Fail Us—and What Works Instead
The Tragic Inevitability of Luigi Mangione and Brian Thompson
A Shooting That Reveals Our Dangerous Divide—and How to Heal It
Somebody has to kill the babysitter
Surprising thoughts triggered by Jim Carrey's 'The Cable Guy'
Metacrisis: The root of all our planetary crises
What Climate change, AI risk, the mental health epidemic & more have in common