Archive - Empowered Belonging

Social Mania and Civilisational Maturity (or, why are all the cults American?)

Does the framework of ‘Europe did class war, America does social justice’ help us understand the difference between these two parts of the world?

Mar 1 •

October 2024

I turn into a large language model when I'm asleep

And I make some great shows.

Oct 26, 2024 •

September 2024

Mapping out the online communities you didn't realise could change the world

Those who can harness the latent power of communities with existing roots have a better chance of changing our world. Build where passion already…

Sep 28, 2024

August 2024

Latent Communities in an Artificial Internet

Those who can harness the latent power of communities which already have strong roots have a better chance of changing our world.

Aug 31, 2024 •

October 2023

There's no such thing as family on the internet

By tying ourselves to our ancestors, names have helped society understand who we are for thousands of years. Pursuing distinctiveness, internet culture…

Oct 1, 2023 •

September 2023

René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race

The French polymath had an original perspective on why we want what we want, and thus what really moves the world.

Sep 9, 2023 •

August 2023

Museums of Passion Projects, Talent, Economics, and Politics

Why do people bother to try and change the world?

Aug 1, 2023 •

July 2023

The Village that Broke Free

Starting your own project is all the rage, but there are other ways to change the world.

Jul 10, 2023 •

June 2023

Technology creates a thousand futures, Culture determines which one we take

Plotting the steps from technology to change.

Jun 3, 2023 •

May 2023

Takeaways from TED 2023: why the future is better than you think

Plus thoughts on what the future will look like, across tech and culture

May 1, 2023 •

April 2023

Defining the Metaverse – and the problems with the media that write about it

The metaverse is the latest in a long line of futuristic ideas to get misrepresented by the tech media. Technology coverage needs to do more than hate…

Apr 1, 2023 •

March 2023

Imagine Web3 Goes Mainstream: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

In solving the problems that hold web3 back today, we risk creating new problems that could be even bigger.

Mar 5, 2023 •

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