pillar:tech
The End Of Waiting
There used to be a space between wanting a thing and having it. The species has nearly deleted it — and half of being alive turns out to have lived there.
stream:evergreen
pillar:systems
The Price Of A Rule
Sport has the machine to prove what is fair to the millimetre. It bends the rule anyway, reliably, toward the money. The instrument was never the problem.
pillar:achievement
The People Who Said No
Civilisation runs on yes. More, faster, again, by default. Every so often a person declines the upgrade, and finds the one door the machine kept telling them was a wall.
pillar:systems
The Room That Rewards The Loudest
The most confident voice in the room is reliably not the most correct one. Humanity knows this, and built nearly every system it owns to reward it anyway.
pillar:tech
The Memory You Outsourced
Memory was never the drawer you emptied into the cloud. It was the workbench. An insight is two things you already hold, finding each other in the dark.
pillar:think
The Last Generation To Be Bored
Leave a child alone for an hour and watch them build a world out of a stick and some ants. We mistook that empty hour for suffering, and rushed to fill it.
pillar:think
What Children Know That Adults Forgot
There is a window between three and twelve when children ask questions that, in any adult room, would clear it. The window does not close on its own.
pillar:achievement
The Things That Work
Somewhere on a quiet street, a wooden cabinet of books has stood for seven years. Strangers add books. Strangers take them. It has never been empty.