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Exploring how beauty and aesthetic ideas shape culture, business, and everyday life.

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26. History of Aesthetics: Kant - Part 2

Part 2 - The Nature of Art

Philosophical Advising and AI

Kurt Vonnegut, a writer with prescient instincts, constructed situations or dilemmas that seem more familiar now.

Developing Taste in the Age of AI: Part 3

The Problem of Exposure

The Aesthetic Leader: Stewardship

If you walk into a business and ask who owns it, that is not an entirely strange question, especially for small businesses.

Philosophers as Advisors

Why Philosophy Is Finding Its Way Back into Business

25. History of Aesthetics: Kant

Part 1 - The Nature of Beauty

The Age of Anaesthesia

Do you ever feel numb at work?

Five Practices for Cultivating Your Aesthetic Sensibility

Every day we respond to atmospheres, rhythms, colors, textures, proportions, and patterns.

Developing Taste in the Age of AI: Part 2

The Discipline of Attention

The Aesthetic Leader: Care

Care is not sentimental.

24. History of Aesthetics: Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn and the Experience of Beauty

What Aesthetics Can Reach

Have you ever walked into a meeting and known something was wrong before anyone said a word?

Developing Taste in the Age of AI: Part 1

Part One: The Problem of Development

When Aesthetics Solves a Business Problem

Many businesses already function competently.

The Aesthetic Leader: Authority

This series has been tracing the form of leadership through qualities that accumulate: from integrity and clarity to restraint and responsibility.

Gallup's 2026 Report and the Experience Nobody Is Measuring

Work Is Becoming Harder to Inhabit

The Aesthetics of Not Saying It Directly

Why would not saying something directly ever be more effective than saying it plainly?

23. History of Aesthetics: Alexander Baumgarten

The Birth of Aesthetics as a Discipline

The Aesthetic Leader: Responsibility

Over the past several months, we have been exploring leadership through an aesthetic lens.

Elegance Is a Symptom

Before recording the Black Album in 1991, James Hetfield, lead singer of Metallica, started taking voice lessons.

Taste Is Not a Skill. It Is a Form of Judgment.

Silicon Valley has begun talking about taste as if it were a newly discovered advantage.