A search for the most helpful stories for the now.
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Read 8 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 17 months.
We hear it a lot: we need new stories. I've said it a lot too for many years: old stories are dying, new ones aren't yet so clear, so let's figure them out. But is this true? Can new stories save us?
Can we live good lives despite 'everything happening' right now? Can we simply 'be with what is' while also staying engaged? What are healthy ways to mentally prepare for 'whatever might come next'?
Steve Jobs said that the computer is like a 'bicycle for the mind’. I believe that artificial intelligence is like a 'rocket for the mind’ and I'm not so convinced that this is what we need right now.
Perhaps it's time to stop hyper-optimising our messaging and start to humanise them instead. Not out of some high-flying idealism, but out of necessity given how the media landscape is devolving.
Can you sense the 'weirding' of media and the internet? The best way to respond might be to make a bolder human stand in the world, after planting our two feet more firmly on the ground.
I believe that stories are not 'nice-to-haves', but essential foundations for how and who we are as people, organisations and societies. Now that old stories are dying, how can we capture new ones?
An important New Year's resolution of mine was to begin publishing a 100% human written, helpful newsletter and I'm proud to share this first edition with you.
