Culture
An exploration of the people, communities, ideas, and cultural movements reshaping how we live. From internet subcultures and generational collisions to unusual lifestyles, shifting identities, and the strange contradictions of modern society. Consider this a field guide to the human experience, including the parts that don’t make sense.
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EVERYONE CAN CREATE. SO WHAT?
Whenever someone used to ask me what I did, I had a list. Artist. Entrepreneur. Marketer. Writer. CEO. Educator. Worldbuilder. All of those answers were true. The problem was that the longer the list became, the less useful it was. Every time I learned how to do something new, I seemed to need another label…
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WHAT IF YOUR EXPERIENCE IS MORE VALUABLE THAN YOU THINK?
For years, I thought I was keeping records. Project notes. Annual reviews. Research threads. Journals. Conversations worth remembering. Short briefs documenting decisions I’d made, problems I’d solved, things I’d tried, and what happened afterward. Most of it started for practical reasons. I wanted continuity. If I came back to a project six months later, I…
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YOU WANT TO BE A CREATOR, BUT YOU’RE OVERTHINKING IT.
The first digital product I ever built was a mess. The landing page was overworked. The offer was too long. The copy was trying too hard. The backend held together mostly because I hadn’t asked it to do very much yet. I could see problems everywhere. But the thing had one quality none of my…
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WHO ARE YOU BECOMING?
Every philosophy eventually reaches a point where it must leave the page and enter a human life. We have spent much of this essay looking outward: first at a historical transition, then at the assumptions through which we interpret it. But understanding eventually encounters a more difficult question. What does any of this ask of…
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THE WORLD CHANGED. OUR ASSUMPTIONS HAVEN’T.
Once you see the larger pattern, technology stops being the most interesting part of the story. The person using it becomes more interesting. For most of history, participating in creative, intellectual, and economic life required access to institutions that controlled much of the necessary infrastructure. If you wanted to publish, you usually needed a publisher.…
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THE DIGITAL RENAISSANCE ISN’T COMING. IT’S ALREADY HERE.
For several years, I’ve carried the quiet feeling that something fundamental has changed. Not simply that technology is moving faster or that new industries are appearing more frequently than before. Something underneath all of that feels different. Things that would’ve seemed extraordinary ten years ago now become ordinary almost overnight. New tools appear, people adapt,…