Leisure is not lost time

Most of my meaningful creative contributions have required the uncontaminated spaciousness needed for creative thought, but as that time becomes harder to find, so does the desire to "optimize" it.
July 19

Action Button is now a part of NationBuilder

Action Button is a powerful tool in its own right, and it is obvious how deeply impactful it will be as a natural extension of NationBuilder.
June 25

The Year Earth Changed

A stellar new documentary filmed during the unprecedented past year, when all of humanity withdrew indoors and nature began to recover.
April 30

The next hurdle

2.5 million people are receiving doses of a COVID-19 vaccine every day in the United States. New York City will be 100% open on July 1. My mind is struggling to catch up.
April 30

Friendship

David Whyte issues an important reminder of what is most important in the end.
March 09

Facial recognition can predict political orientation

Will technology know us better than we know ourselves?
February 06

The other coup

The latest must-read article by Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
February 04

NationBuilder Year in Review 2020

Celebrating incredible leaders around the world doing remarkable work using NationBuilder.
January 28

Four Corners included on Relapse Records 30-year anniversary sampler

December 23 Music

The seduction of conspiracy theories

"Suffering the distress of an illusion rather than the true distress of my life."
December 21

Odes to the Void

by Life on Venus
July 19 Listening

The Overstory

by Richard Powers
June 16 Reading