sonja blignaut on company culture and stories

episode 39 of the human current has been a game changer for me. the interview is with sonja blignaut from more beyond and the way she explained some of the work she does has definitively leveled up my thinking about stories and also culture. in some ways, nothing she said was new. but, like most good innovation (in my mind), she combined some elements in a new way and in a new context that made something new and excellent.

healing: the difference between wounds and scars

over the last month or so i’ve had two conversations with friends (jason and camilo) about healing, wounds, and scars. there’s a lot to unpack and i don’t totally remember which conversations i had with each of them but let me just get into the points:

“the world had to be disenchanted in order for it to be modern”

“the world had to be disenchanted in order for it to be modern.” - huma gupta

flash fiction: my son is a vampire

preface: the comment my dad made below is real. this story is a little experiment in taking things from my actual life and turning them into weird worlds.

on the problems of masculinity: vulnerability and intimacy are off limits to typically masculine men

this is a two-part post about some of the ways that problematic types of masculinity hurts men as well as any society they exist in.