Why We Question Our Purpose at Different Stages of Life
Understanding Existential Crisis
What happens in the brain and the self when the story that gave life its shape no longer holds — and how meaning-making can begin again. · 16 min read
Flourishing Humanity
Technology and our shared future
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At the largest scale, digital systems shape collective experience as a species -
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This page explores strains that are felt globally - climate anxiety, polycrisis fatigue, AI overwhelm, deepfake fear, and a growing sense that powerful technologies are evolving faster than our collective ability to understand or govern them.
The articles here connect neuroscience, ethics, and systems thinking to one of the defining questions of our time: how can humanity navigate technological change wisely? And how might digital systems - redesigned with care - support collective resilience, shared responsibility, and genuine long-term flourishing?
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Advanced AI: Understanding the Opportunities and Risks Ahead
Understanding Superintelligence and AI Threats to Humanity
How to hold genuinely uncertain but consequential concerns about advanced AI clearly — without either dismissing them or being paralysed by them. · 15 min read
Why It's Getting Harder to Feel Truly Connected
Understanding Social Disconnection
What the research on social connection tells us about belonging, what human beings genuinely need from one another, and why the conditions for meeting those needs have become so difficult to sustain. · 15 min read