Holding Stories Others Refuse to Remember
Some people relate to us as though parts of our lives are placeholders—as if they never happened, as if those roles held no significance. How does one play the part in that involuntary theatre? How do...
Secret Gardens Within Public Parks
Imagine a vast public park in a city somewhere. Scores of individuals somehow maintain secret personal gardens within this huge public park. They've established relationships with specific plants, wat...
Rationing Oxygen Across Too Many Chambers
Very few of us think about what children need. Many lack time or motivation because we don't consider it important. Yet this might be the single most important thing parents could do. But most parents...
A Telephone Directory That Thinks It's a Community
We've built a world where your LinkedIn connection count functions like a credit score for relevance. Five hundred connections makes you credible. Five thousand makes you influential. Fifty makes you ...
Ethics as Architecture, Not Opinion
We treat ethics as opinion when we should recognise it as architecture. If I say "murder is wrong," you don't reply "that's your perspective." Yet when someone says "killing sentient beings for pleasu...
Drivers Who Don't Know Where They Want to Go
We have many vehicles on the streets of our cities, but many vehicles have drivers who don't know where they want to go. They are not just confused
What If Mirrors Showed Cognitive Blind Spots
Imagine if every mirror in your home became a disruption screen - not reflecting your face but your cognitive blind spots. Not the spinach between your teeth, but the assumptions calcifying in your wo...
The Body Speaks in Dialect Requiring Translation
We persistently misread the mind-body connection as predictive mechanism rather than diagnostic instrument—as though emotional patterns generate illnesses through mechanical causality. Like expecting ...
Unity Arises from Bandwidth, Not Essence
You inhabit one brain, experiencing one continuous stream of "you." This seems inevitable—consciousness bound to a single skull like a river confined to its bed. Yet what creates this unity? Two hundr...