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Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Normandy: Light, Impressionism, and Seeing What's Actually There (03/22)

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

Obsidian Memo] Revisiting the Social Contract in the Age of AI

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.

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Scotland: Melancholy, Myth, and the Art of Losing Beautifully (02/22)

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | Scotland: Melancholy, Myth, and the Art of Losing Beautifully (02/22)

What a nation that has lost almost everything can teach us about identity, resilience, and the strange power of a beautiful wound

Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (02/12)

Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (02/12)

A Conversation Across Centuries Reading Time: 13 minutes Classical Period: 6th century BCE (Ancient China) Core Philosophy: Lead by not forcing. Flow like water. The softest overcomes the hardest. Why I'm Reading This I opened the Tao Te Ching randomly to Chapter 78: "Nothing in the world

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | London: The Fog, The Fire, and The Market (01/22)

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | London: The Fog, The Fire, and The Market (01/22)

London: How a chaotic, fog-drenched trading city accidentally became the center of the world — and what it left behind

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | The Grand Tour: When Europe's Elite Went to School (00/22)

Art] What Cities Make of Us: Art, Power & the Human Condition Across Europe | The Grand Tour: When Europe's Elite Went to School (00/22)

What a 17th-century gap year in Europe can teach us about power, legitimacy, and the education that money can't buy

Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (01/12)

Book] Leadership | Classics Circle: Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (01/12)

A Conversation Across Centuries Reading Time: 12 minutes Classical Period: 170-180 CE (Roman Empire) Core Philosophy: Control what you can control. Accept what you cannot. Lead from inner peace. Why I'm Reading This I'm working through Meditations with AI (Claude) as my thinking partner—not