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Our attention—that essential ability to give our minds and senses to the world—is being trapped, gutted, and sold out from under us by an industry of immense technological and financial power, and individual willpower and isolated efforts to resist are not enough. We need a movement of collective resistance.
Democracy, writes Jeremy David Engels, is a practice—a communal practice that needs to be renewed. In that spirit, he offers a Declaration of Interdependence to heal a fractured world.
Cecily Mak's new book, Undimmed, is "an invitation to break free from the habits that dim our lives" and "embrace the full spectrum of experiences that life has to offer." This piece introduces us to the Eight Awarenesses she guides us through in the book and her journey to discovering and defining them.
We live in a world in which metrics reign, but they can obscure as much as they reveal. Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen explains how metrics can be used as a form of "objectivity laundering," especially when it comes to value decisions, so you can determine when they are useful in decision making and when they are not.
Support for the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion is more widespread than most of us think, but the way workplaces have pursued DEI and the politics surrounding it remain contentious. Lily Zheng charts a path forward by focusing on practical progress, not abstract ideology, and prioritizing results over good intentions.
