“We want to feel felt. We want to know that the other person is genuinely present with us, that they might share in our emotions, and that they care enough to put in the effort to actually connect.” psyche.co/ideas/why-we...
Don’t just set boundaries, but cherish the alternatives. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
“Context-switching is brutally expensive for the human brain.” siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...
“Mass Media… turns us all into potential actors, critics experts… and takes art out of the realm of the sacred and into the realm of the spectacle.” www.openculture.com/2026/01/walt...
"The main function of slop is to take something from you: your time, your attention, your trust… Slop is boring, repetitive, and often inexpensive to make — the natural evolution of an internet built for scale and ruthless optimization.” www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
"I always have this tension that I'm experiencing," she says. "Is this a choice that I'm making for myself, or am I being influenced...?"
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Spelunking Plato's cave with an Inside/Outside balance: aeon.co/essays/philo...
It seems like I'm seeing Socrates and Plato namechecked on the daily, but adding an Infinite Jest reference is such a perfect cherry on top ttps://www.noemamag.com/how-we-became-captives-of-social-media/
Interesting research from Dr. Elaine Aron (of the Highly Sensitive Person framework) on obsessive ranking as a more psychopathic trait (versus linking, which Riane Eisler might attribute to Partnership social dynamics): hsperson.com/revisiting-v...
Though I definitely prefer the moniker Geoism for animistic reasons this Georgeism 101 grounds our AI mania in context notion.moontowermeta.com/moontower-re...
"Disasters can sever us, for a time, from what McLuhan called humanity’s 'extended nervous system.' The process of slowly mending your connections to that network is an experience out of time." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/m...
I forget we're a minority, but 15-30% still feels low: psyche.co/guides/how-t...
Sat with this one for awhile financialosophy.beehiiv.com/p/the-alchem...
What if we measure not just brain activity but total body activity? All these studies focus on "mental effort" but there's a clear *embodiment* aspect at play, esp bc emotions and the subconscious are somatic (the body keeps the score), and the heart's exponentially stronger than the head EMFwise
After 5 years co-hosting the Damn Interesting Week podcast, I'm ready to flip the script and be the guest! If you know podcast hosts exploring consciousness, money, media, or systems change - or if you host a show yourself - I'd love to connect.
www.financialosophy.com/conversations
A domestic abuse presentation slide focused on technologic abuse, listing the following examples: rage texting, limiting access to technology, revenge porn/sharing intimate photos without consent, demanding access to social media, online accounts (bank statements, phone records, email, etc.), creating fake accounts to harass or stalk the survivor, making the survivor prove where they are, using apps or technology to track the survivor's location or online activity
Onboarding as a volunteer FinAbility mentor and this slide made me pause and consider how much of this might not be happening in my bodily experience, but the body politic is definitely going through this rn
I'm honored to share I've been accepted to volunteer as a Financial Mentor with FinAbility, a non-profit dedicated to unlocking financial security for survivors of domestic abuse.
It feels incredibly worthwhile to align my efforts with a cause near and dear to my heart: www.finabilityus.org
Tech leaders think AI is smarter than it is because it sounds exactly like what they think is smart, while to everyone else, it sounds exactly like a tech leader trying to look smart.
Getting geekier and gothier at the substack, this time with multiple dragon references, a money/abundance Thoth tarot deck spread, and my favorite Two Ton Boa track: financialosophy.substack.com/p/wealth-vs-...
"Graffiti and its corporate sanctioned sister art, advertising, are our modern day cave paintings. As Marshall McLuhan put it, 'ads are not intended to be seen but to produce an effect. The cave paintings were carefully hidden. They were a magic form, intended to affect events at a distance.'"
"So prolific was his artistic protest and promotion that he drew the envy of no less a contemporary than Andy Warhol. 'He was jealous of how Keith was like an advertising agency unto himself,' said the photographer Christopher Makos.'That was the cleverest thing any artist at the moment was doing.'”
"The actual pivot that is needed is one to humanity." www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
"in our rush to reach
we forget to face
the consequences
of scale and pace"
"What strategies might we employ to notice what’s happening to us? What’s become habitual? Beneath our notice?"
"The level of blue spectrum light may be activating specific eye cells connected to brain regions in charge of decision-making, emotional regulation, and processing risk versus reward scenarios."
A healing brew for these historic times: subject-subjectivity cradled in a context of ceremony.
"... to want anything is to deem your life incomplete without it. It is a perpetual motion machine that keeps you restlessly spinning around the still point of enough."
