The Zero-Sum Trap
When you treat every relationship as a transaction and every interaction as zero-sum, you don’t build power—you hollow it out.
Advice on Solace, Sex, and Strength
Tech Support Tuesday #2: grief on the mat, yoga and intimacy, and what your body is actually for. Three questions. Real answers.
Systems, Suits, and Who Gets to Know
This week: algorithms that sort us, teachers who translate, and the question of who controls what we know.
Forget About It
Scientists can now manipulate memories in mice, but the real question is whether we should erase our painful past.
The Yoga Club Does All Eight (And Maybe We Should Do More)
The Yoga Club does all eight things people are doing to make friends without social media.
The Digital Poorhouse
Automated systems don’t remove human bias — they move it, and they hide it from view.
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? — A Reading
A reading of Oate’s prose is a good way to help find yourslf.
The Question Mark Suit and Yoga Teaching
Matthew Lesko wore question mark suits and helped people navigate bureaucracy—kind of like teaching Ashtanga yoga.
Tech Support Tuesday #1 is LIVE!
The inaugural Tech Support Tuesday — seven questions from Reddit, answered on video. Stop trying to be good at yoga. Start paying attention.
Who Decides What’s Real?
This week kept asking who gets to decide what counts—and whether we’re looking for answers in the wrong places.