I just had a weekend full of human flourishing, and I can see it clearly.
I wonder how much of a shift it would be to have this embedded in political agenda.. also curious how we can get talk about this kind of a thing without being ridiculed as "oh it's the ideal life, must be nice"
Yeah, I find that there’s this contagious meme-driven nihilism on social media like “climate change, dictatorship, AI overlord apocalypse hahahaha”.
But then you go for a walk in nature with friends and stop in a meadow for a sandwich and it’s like, oh wow, life is incredible.
Yet our lizard brains choose the former over the latter?
Iris and I are headed to DC pretty soon. So I sent out a quick email to friends saying we’ll be hanging out in some park in the afternoon, so come by for a picnic. Now we have a fun picnic planned. It took like 2 minutes to organize. And yet it seems pretty rare for most people. 🤷
You can’t legislate picnic invitations, obviously. But I have come across some interesting policy ideas.
I say go for your series — you don’t even need to frame it as a series, just write whatever you’re thinking about, and if they happen to connect, then great!
Great advice. I guess all Substack writing is kinda one big series.
I'm grateful that there are no artisan slop bowls in Oaxaca. Just a lot of soul (and tacos). But it seems inevitable that capitalism will bring them before long.
LOVE this. Can’t wait for the series and the piece on sports betting. In addition to thinking about policies to stop the bad stuff and how we can spend money to advance this agenda, I’m curious what people can do on their own and how we can incentivize the good stuff.
There are answers out there …in the UK, Wales is in the process of legislating to prevent autocracy with a simple but innovative and quietly radical legal solution...
I just had a weekend full of human flourishing, and I can see it clearly.
I wonder how much of a shift it would be to have this embedded in political agenda.. also curious how we can get talk about this kind of a thing without being ridiculed as "oh it's the ideal life, must be nice"
Yeah, I find that there’s this contagious meme-driven nihilism on social media like “climate change, dictatorship, AI overlord apocalypse hahahaha”.
But then you go for a walk in nature with friends and stop in a meadow for a sandwich and it’s like, oh wow, life is incredible.
Yet our lizard brains choose the former over the latter?
Iris and I are headed to DC pretty soon. So I sent out a quick email to friends saying we’ll be hanging out in some park in the afternoon, so come by for a picnic. Now we have a fun picnic planned. It took like 2 minutes to organize. And yet it seems pretty rare for most people. 🤷
You can’t legislate picnic invitations, obviously. But I have come across some interesting policy ideas.
I think you might enjoy this post about “artisanal slop bowls” by Dan Frank. https://danfrank.ca/artisanal-slop-bowls-as-the-next-abstraction-of-capitalism/
I say go for your series — you don’t even need to frame it as a series, just write whatever you’re thinking about, and if they happen to connect, then great!
Great advice. I guess all Substack writing is kinda one big series.
I'm grateful that there are no artisan slop bowls in Oaxaca. Just a lot of soul (and tacos). But it seems inevitable that capitalism will bring them before long.
I ate at a cava yesterday and I felt dirty for succumbing to the convenience.
LOVE this. Can’t wait for the series and the piece on sports betting. In addition to thinking about policies to stop the bad stuff and how we can spend money to advance this agenda, I’m curious what people can do on their own and how we can incentivize the good stuff.
There are answers out there …in the UK, Wales is in the process of legislating to prevent autocracy with a simple but innovative and quietly radical legal solution...
https://open.substack.com/pub/justhinkin/p/has-wales-found-the-solution-to-autocracy?r=3cs2wr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true