That awkward pause after a futures question? It’s not a problem to be fixed. It’s information. When groups go quiet, it’s often because the question is stretching identity, not just opinion. Sometimes it’s because people are sensing risk in being wrong. And sometimes...
Ikigai is having a moment (again. I first read about it in 2018 when I read Héctor García and Francesc Miralles’ book). Ikigai is often presented as something to be found: a neatly defined purpose that sits at the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at,...
When falling down the internet “rabbit hole” recently, I came across a play that’s currently showing in New York. “The Pocket Kids Park” is all about a group of young friends and park visitors in conversation about how to save their local...
You don’t have to be big or powerful to contribute to climate action. Just think of zooplankton, tiny animals that are responsible for locking away as much planet-warming carbon as the annual emissions of roughly 55 million petrol cars (the equivalent of 65...
In early June, Leif Weatherby, the Director of NYU’s Digital Theory Lab, wrote a piece for the New York Times entitled “A.I. Killed the Math Brain”. In it, he puts forward the worry that “we, as a society, will become innumerate, not just...
Let’s reflect on cigarettes today and consider the scale of the problem they introduce: Cigarette butts are the most common item of litter collected from beach cleanups – worldwide, they amount to 845,000 tons of litter per year. An estimated 4.5 trillion...
