Everything filed under essays

A manifesto on the organic web.

Making sense of life in community in the age of intelligent machines

What it looks like through the eyes of the species.

Whose goals are you striving for anyway?

What does it mean to be an American?

I claim that it is actually not difficult to be happy, and that happiness is mostly something you can choose.

Good design is less design.

Often I think I need to be optimizing harder. It's time to take a look around and realize that life is actually, kind of incredibly, great.

On building connections, filtering problems, and sparkly people.