Academic and rhetoric specialist Eric Smith is known for pushing back against victim mindset. In this essay, he reminds us that we all face challenges, but they don’t determine our fate.
Read More
How is social media affecting our “locus of control,” especially for teen girls? Academic and moral theorist Jonathan Haidt rings the alarm bell about how digital natives are failing to thrive, and Editor-in-Chief Heather Shayne Blakeslee makes the case that Gen X just might save us.
Read More
We all fail. But the story we tell ourselves about that failure, and better understanding how our brains and bodies work together, can be the difference between resilience, and a crack up.
Read More
Author Julia Galef’s book Scout Mindset is both an exploration of how our minds work, and a call to action: be scouts, not soldiers. If many more of us seek to understand rather than merely “win” our world may become a more beautiful place.
Read More
Librarian Sarah Hartman Caverly gives us tools and resources for navigating any muddy information system. She urges us to not be unwittingly enlisted in information wars and to embrace uncertainty, adopt watchful waiting, and demand more of authorities.
Read More
by Walter Foley
How did we get here, and where do we want to go? Reflections on self-reliance and sensemaking during strange times.
by Heather Shayne Blakeslee
In this period of our country’s history, will be come together, or be torn apart? The first of our ongoing “Opening Salvo” essays from Founding Publisher and Editor Heather Shayne Blakeslee in summer of 2019.
Read More