Burnout is the inevitable result of our endlessly accelerating pace of life pro·cel·er·a·tion /prōˌseləˈrāSH(ə)n/ noun The acceleration of acceleration — excerpt…
This Christmas, Let’s Agree To Stop Glorifying Gift-Giving
A humble argument for the cash gift “Wait, Dale got Hulk Hands?” — Brennan Huff, Step Brothers Christmas is here again.…
The World Is on a Collision Course With Itself
Almost 200 years ago, in 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on his now famous journey aboard the S.S. Beagle. This was…
Evolution Has Already Approved of Everything You’ll Do Tomorrow
Darwin’s theories illustrate the improbability of the present and the unknowability of the future “Each and every one of us has…
We’re Primed to Be Addicted to Social Media
Networks are the internet’s black holes, and trolls are its dark energy nor·mie /nôrmē/ noun noun: normie; plural noun: normies…
The Approval Economy
Why every purchase is a performance “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I…
The Market Is Catching Up to You
From soccer to Chipotle, everything we do is shaped by economics The FIFA World Cup, and specifically the penalty-kick-heavy match…
Memes: An Antidote to Uncertainty
What our obsession with memes—and content like them—says about us “The tendency of any medium is to attract to itself types…
The Instagram Generation
What happens when a society with a penchant for the cosmetic meets a medium dominated by it? “The medium is the…
People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves
What Apple, Samsung, and Starbucks learned from Pepsi The year was 1957, and Pepsi — like many of the youth at that…
