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What does it mean to be human?
This fall marks ten years since the release of Her, the scifi rom com by the immensely talented director Spike Jonze. When I wrote about the film a…
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Budweiser's missteps highlight culture shifts that should terrify us
Brands don’t shape culture. Culture shapes brands. Now, as the culture wars escalate, businesses are becoming a battlefront. Disney has filed a lawsuit…
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ChatGPT does not understand us
A few months after Jude turned three, he came in from the playground, flopped down next to me on the couch, and said: “I’m dead.” Frances found the word…
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Embrace the darkness
The beauty of community is that we guide each other through the dark moments; we become the internal light that makes periods of darkness bearable. It’s…
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Dreaming forward. Moving backward.
The morning after five people were murdered at Club Q in Colorado Springs, I sunk into a booth with a childhood friend and her family at a gay-friendly…
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Let's make our backpacks lighter
I find myself on a plane, a sleeping child tucked next to me, heading back to New York after a few days in Mississippi and Alabama. I’m trying to…
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Four really great books I didn't write
Jude is a book lover. Every few weeks, we walk a block down to the small library branch in our neighborhood, where he returns his cache and selects a…
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What do people think of me?
A good friend is in the midst of an incredible professional success. She directed Into the Woods, a revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s…
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Ambient anxiety and the pursuit of happiness
Everything is awful, and I’m aware of every awful thing all the time. There’s the pandemic, and climate change. The threat of social unrest, and the…
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A biweekly newsletter for people who are trying to make sense of how we live and work, and build technology that enables our humanity.
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