EJ Elena Shin
![Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Paris 1: Revolution, Romanticism, and the Art of Righteous Anger (04/22)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2a/9e/2a9e2b04-30f6-4166-8010-a3730d2eb719/content/images/size/w720/2026/03/Gemini_Generated_Image_sbowymsbowymsbow-8.png)
Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Paris 1: Revolution, Romanticism, and the Art of Righteous Anger (04/22)
How a city in permanent political crisis became the creative capital of the modern world — and what chaos actually unlocks in us
![Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli (03/12)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2a/9e/2a9e2b04-30f6-4166-8010-a3730d2eb719/content/images/size/w720/2026/02/Gemini_Generated_Image_tq8wcbtq8wcbtq8w.png)
Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli (03/12)
A Conversation Across Centuries
Reading Time: 14 minutes
Classical Period: 1513 CE (Renaissance Italy)
Core Philosophy: Better to be feared than loved. Power is amoral. Idealism without realism is suicide.
Why I'm Reading This
After two months of virtue ethics—Marcus Aurelius teaching me to build an inner
AI | grok3 vs. chatgpt4 pro vs. perplexity vs. claude vs. gemini vs. copilot
Compare Grok3, ChatGPT-4 Pro, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Discover their pros, cons, use cases, and when to use each AI tool. A 2025 guide to choosing the best AI assistant for research, coding, writing, and productivity.
What does 'Trump 2.0' mean for Sustainable Investing?
(More comprehensive version coming up soon, but sneak peek into what's coming below!)
Hi All,
Indeed, the wheel has started to turn, and the past three weeks since Trump's inauguration have been a whirlwind of executive orders and shock waves reverberating across the global system. I
![Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Normandy: Light, Impressionism, and Seeing What's Actually There (03/22)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2a/9e/2a9e2b04-30f6-4166-8010-a3730d2eb719/content/images/size/w720/2026/03/Gemini_Generated_Image_sbowymsbowymsbow-10.png)
Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Normandy: Light, Impressionism, and Seeing What's Actually There (03/22)
How a group of rejected painters on the French coast invented the most radical epistemological act in modern art — and why it still matters
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Obsidian Memo] Revisiting the Social Contract in the Age of AI
As AI shapes our world, it's time to rethink the social contract between individuals and governments. Inspired by Baroness Shafik's What We Owe Each Other, I explore how AI influences rights, responsibilities, and freedoms. Let’s discuss how we can evolve our relationship with technology.