I missed school. So I made this.
It's about digital sociology, design, business, and personal development.
This is my curated collection on the topics above. It's a perpetual work in progress. You'll find my email newsletter at the Subscribe link below.
The Collection
The intersection of technology, public policy, and ethics, with relation to the psychology and big money business behind capturing your digital attention and keeping you interacting with your screens
- Engage with work from the Belfer Center's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program [research center]
- Listen to Your Undivided Attention and watch The Social Dilemma, both from the Center for Humane Technology [podcast, film, non-profit organization]
- Engage with UCOT, including their Annual Gatherings [community + conference]
- Subscribe to Hello World from Julia Angwin, Editor in Chief of The Markup [weekly email newsletter]
Being a human in a digital culture
- Read the works of Sherry Turkle [professor + researcher]
- Follow the work of Kate Darling [researcher]
Inspiring ideas about what it means to be a human being who is part of a society
- Listen to On Being with Krista Tippett and the initiative's other radio shows/podcasts [audio/podcast]
- Explore On Being in general [organization/initiative]
- Subscribe to the Sunday Newsletter and the Midweek Newsletter from Brain Pickings by Maria Popova [email; click link and scroll down]
- Read Aeon Magazine and subscribe to the newsletter [digital magazine + email]
- Engage with the Sacred Design Lab [research and design consultancy]
If you want to be more intentional about designing gatherings and bringing people together in new ways
- Subscribe to The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker [monthly email]
- Read The Art of Gathering, also by Priya Parker [book]
- Listen to Together Apart, also by Priya Parker [podcast]
- Order decks of cards by 100 New Things to Try [activity]
Critical analysis of the culture we live in, and how to build the society of the future
- Subscribe to Culture Study by Anne Helen Petersen [twice weekly email]
- Engage with offerings from the Aspen Institute, particularly the Aspen Ideas Festival [organization, conference]
- Engage with the Project for Empty Space [non-profit arts organization]
- Engage with More in Common [organization]
- Engage with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, including reading The Hedgehog Review [research center; digital publication]
Philosophies on leadership and workplaces of the future
- Subscribe to the Human Works Design newsletter [email]
- Engage with the Josh Bersin Academy, particularly The Big Reset Playbook [online courses, report]
- Engage with the Third Path Institute [non-profit organization]
- Subscribe to Erica Dhawan's newsletter [email]
- Read Harvard Business Review [publication]
- Listen to the Bregman Leadership Podcast [podcast]
Ways of organizing our society and our work so that business success, human livelihood, and the planet can flourish together
- Explore the House of Beautiful Business [platform + community]
- Subscribe to Beauty Shot from the House of Beautiful Business [weekly Sunday email; click link and scroll down]
- Subscribe to the Conscious Learning Tribe newsletter [weekly email]
- Engage with writings and projects from Perspectiva [organization]
- Engage with IAM, including the Billion Seconds Institute [creative research lab]
- Engage with and attend programming from Hello Tomorrow [organization]
- Engage with Falling Walls [platform]
Inspiring ideas about individual personal growth
- Listen to Unlocking Us with Brené Brown [podcast]
- Read Untamed by Glennon Doyle [book]
- Subscribe to Raptitude [email]
- Subscribe to Seth's Blog [daily morning email]
- Subscribe to Zen Habits by Leo Babauta [email; click link and scroll down]
- Subscribe to Words of Women by Lauren Martin [email]
Interdisciplinary ideas from the overlapping spaces of technology, design, media, culture, art, and the future
- Subscribe to Dense Discovery [weekly Monday email]
- Subscribe to For Your Senses from The Slowdown [weekly Saturday morning email]
- Engage with the MIT Media Lab [research organization]
- Engage with the Northeastern University Center for Design [research platform]
- Attend SXSW [conference]
If you want to better understand your emotions
- Explore The School of Life [organization]
- Read articles from The Book of Life by The School of Life and subscribe to their newsletter [digital publication + email]
Curated ideas for people who enjoy thinking and learning
- Join The Next Big Idea Club [non-fiction book club, community]
- Listen and subscribe to Thinking is Cool [podcast, newsletter]
- Sign up for emails and courses from Architecting Curiosity [community + school]
- Read The Stone from the New York Times [column]
- Join the Rebel Book Club [non-fiction book club, community]
News and insights at the intersection of business and technology
- Subscribe to The Hustle [daily email]
- Subscribe to Morning Brew [daily email]
- Explore additional content from Morning Brew [additional emails, podcasts]
- Subscribe to The Broadsheet [email]
- Subscribe to Thinking Forward by MIT Sloan School of Management [email newsletter]
- Subscribe to TLDR [daily email]
If you want to think about and be inspired by the intersection of startups, creativity, digital culture, and human-centered work
- Subscribe to Check Your Pulse by Sari Azout [weekly Sunday email]
- Explore Startupy, also by Sari Azout [project]
- Engage with Red Thread [think tank + consultancy]
The intersection of work and psychology
- Subscribe to Granted by Adam Grant [monthly email]
- Subscribe to the Pink Newsletter by Daniel Pink [every other Tuesday email]
Inspiring ideas about relational personal growth
- Listen to The Real Question [podcast]
- Listen to We Can Do Hard Things [podcast]
If you want to inspire your ambition
- Subscribe to Momentum from Next Gen [weekly Monday evening email]
- Listen to The Deep End by On Deck [podcast]
- Read The Big Life by Ann Shoket [book]
Approaches to intentionally organizing your life
- Read The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile [book]
- Engage with resources from the Stanford Life Design Lab [organization]
Designing physical spaces for humans
- Read Dwell Magazine [print and digital magazine]
If you want to grow your creative and/or business pursuits
- Subscribe to For the Interested [weekly Sunday email]
- Subscribe to Kyle Poyar's Growth Unhinged [every other week email]
Interdisciplinary philosophies of design and design thinking
- Take courses from IDEO U [online school]
- Attend Interventions:Ignite [conference]
Writing for writers
- Subscribe to The Reading [email]
If you want collections of short essays that will make you feel more connected to a shared human experience
If you want to reflect on friendship from a psychology-sociology-business perspective
Writing for everyone, regardless of whether or not you identify as a writer
Data, with regard to online dating
If you want to learn about human decision making from a science-psychology-behavioral economics perspective
How to actually rest, or at least slow down
- Subscribe to The Daily Good from The Good Trade [weekday morning email]
- Listen to Hurry Slowly [podcast]
If you're really into walking
Fiction that will make you think about aspects of shared human experiences through specific lenses
- Watch Scenes from a Marriage on HBO [mini series]
- Watch Modern Love on Amazon Prime
- Watch Industry on HBO
If you actually really like your job but still want to set healthy boundaries and learn about work-life balance or blend or dance or whatever you want to call it
Children's books
If you want to learn about resilience
If you want to read poetry that will make you think and feel
- Read Heart Talk by Cleo Wade [book]
- Read Powder Keg Magazine [digital publication]
If you're interested in material that could be on a syllabus for a college course on Media and Culture
- Watch Pretend It's a City on Netflix [limited documentary series]
- Read the Memory Loss series from Urban Omnibus [series in a digital publication]
If you want to consider issues of gender at work from an academic perspective
If you want to read about reading
If you want to read/watch/otherwise consume a fascinating story that actually happened
If you want to really nerd out over language and its nuances
If you want to foster your creativity
- Attend and subscribe to Creative Mornings [events, email; click link and scroll down for email signup]
- Subscribe to Jocelyn K. Glei's newsletter [twice monthly email]
- Subscribe to Dangerous Meredith [blog]
If you want to bring literature, arts, and culture into your life
- Subscribe to newsletters from The Paris Review [emails]
- Subscribe to The New Yorker Recommends and Books & Fiction, both from The New Yorker [emails]
- Engage with programming from the SoHo Arts Network [organization]
- Follow The Artidote [Instagram]
If you want to learn to apply the psychology of conflict resolution
- Explore current research from the Harvard International Negotiation Program
Philosophies of happiness
- Read How to Build a Life [column in The Atlantic]
- Read and subscribe to The Aesthetics of Joy [blog, emails]
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