The pandemic has the potential to cause a step shift in disparity. Not just in the familiar 1% and 99%, but within the privileged classes as well. This is an exploration along three areas – money, relationships & society, and evolution – to the future of front tier (and frontier) journeys.
When all the world’s always a stage thanks to the ubiquity of social media, we reach a point when our happiness is happiness only if it is validated by “friends” on social networks. A cycle of inadequacy, envy and angst follows. Evolution might have hardwired this in us, but it’s possible to think beyond.
I read two brilliant books in the last few months – Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Pérez and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. Both books are concerned about data, but differently. One about its lack, and the other about its abundance. But my thoughts were further afield, inspired by the first book’s finding that including women in decisions makes better business sense.
In Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari explains how we’re the most dominant species on the planet because we’re the only ones able to cooperate flexibly in large numbers. The ‘funny’ part is that the things we cooperate on usually exist only in our collective imagination – religion, nation, money. Intersubjective realities. But it gets funnier. When […]
Clever tees have been an attraction for quite a while now. Less generic, and more fun mashups. This one is an example from a few years ago. Once, when I wore this while out in a group, one kind soul complimented the design. Another person in the group immediately commented that people wore such tees […]