Introduction: The Contacts Are There. The Connection Isn’t It’s late on a Tuesday night, and the phone is full of names that don’t feel reachable. Hundreds of names in the phone. Followers online. People at work seen every day. And…
Introduction: “It Won’t Change Anything If It’s Just Me” You decline a plastic straw after reading about the oceans. You open a donation page, chest tight from footage of a conflict zone. And then, almost immediately, a thought moves through:…
Introduction: Why Wanting to Change the World Can Feel Completely Pointless Climate change. Poverty. War. The scale of what the news describes is overwhelming, and daily life starts to feel negligible by comparison. A donation is a drop in the…
Introduction: How We Learned to Live Next to Someone We Don’t Know When passing someone in the hallway of the same building, you look down at your phone. In an elevator with just one other person, your eyes go to…
Introduction: More Efficient — and Somehow Less Whole No commute. Work at your own pace. Finally, an environment where you can actually concentrate. And yet, when you close the laptop at the end of the day, what spreads through the…