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Casey Rivera
We turned every human emotion into a diagnosis, every diagnosis into a market, and every market into an identity. A reckoning.
Casey Rivera
Seven words that have killed more innovation, more relationships, and more potential than any other sentence in human history.
Kai Nakamura
Calling the world's oldest continuous culture's knowledge system a "myth" says more about the caller than the content.
Kai Nakamura
The monoculture of the 20th century gave way to microtribes — and while this created space for authentic expression, it also
Kai Nakamura
We no longer share a single informational reality — society has splintered into incompatible versions of the world, and the t
Casey Rivera
The most connected country on earth is the most disconnected where it counts. Bandwidth is not belonging.
Theo Vasquez
The algorithm was designed to be more interesting than the person beside you. That is not a relationship failure. That is an
Casey Rivera
Somewhere a building is on fire and a hundred people walk past like it is background music. We did not lose empathy. We ran o
Casey Rivera
You do not need another true crime podcast. You need a voice in the room. The content is the excuse. The company is the product.
Casey Rivera
Nobody told you about office hours or networking or that you were supposed to ask for help. You built the plane while flying it.
Dev Anand
Lagom is not mediocrity. It is the Swedish cultural principle that enoughness is a virtue — that the right amount is the goal
Casey Rivera
You are allowed to have a life that would not make a good highlight reel. You are allowed to be ordinary. Optimization cultur
Theo Vasquez
Three in four Gen Z adults know social media is hurting them. Three in four keep opening the app. This is not weakness or hyp
Mika Sato
Americans have lost two hours of sleep per night since 1960. We blame screens, caffeine, and stress — not the economic system
Kai Nakamura
Shoshin describes what children have naturally and what mastery takes away if you aren't careful.
Kai Nakamura
Wu Wei is not laziness — it is the intelligence of acting in alignment with nature rather than against it.
Kai Nakamura
Fireflies flash in unison. Schools of fish turn as one. Neurons fire in coordinated rhythms. The universe has a deep preferen
Casey Rivera
We optimized for everything except the one thing that keeps us alive. Connection got deprioritized by an algorithm.
Dani Okonkwo
Seven years on a screen. Six months in line. These are not choices. They are the sediment of a thousand small defaults nobody
Dani Okonkwo
We say "catch feelings" like love is the flu. "Fall" for someone like it is an accident. The way we talk about love reveals h
Kai Nakamura
Arjuna froze on the battlefield. Krishna's answer to his paralysis is still the most useful thing ever written about it.
Kai Nakamura
The second noble truth names the mechanism of anxiety with more precision than most CBT frameworks.
Casey Rivera
144 pickups. Zero depth. The device that connects us to everyone connects us to no one because we use it to scroll past each
Casey Rivera
Go outside. Exercise. Touch grass. The advice assumes a baseline capacity that depression, disability, and chronic illness ha
Casey Rivera
A dating app that successfully matches you is an app that loses a customer. The business model requires you to keep swiping.
Dr. Sofia Reyes
Coming home after living abroad can feel just as disorienting as leaving did. Here's why reverse culture shock happens, how l
Dani Okonkwo
Learn about & chat with historical comedians like Mark Twain and Maya Angelou who turned wit into resistance.
Kai Nakamura
The Haudenosaunee principle of considering how every decision affects the next seven generations is exactly what modern gover
Kai Nakamura
When you remove the ritual that marks the crossing, people spend decades unsure which side they're on.
Dani Okonkwo
Knowing that you are comparing your reality to other people's performance is not enough to stop doing it. The platforms were