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Clarity but not focus
More clarity about what and how you want to engage in the world does not necessarily guarantee the ability to focus your work.
Michael Slaby
Proven leader across nonprofits, startups, politics, and government. Committed to reclaiming the culture and practice of civic life and the design, development, and emergence of a generative society.
What comes from a month off the grid?
Clarity.
What we need to be free
If we focus on ensuring and investing in everyone's freedom, we might find real freedom the cure to our futurelessnesss.
Newsletter
The Problem with Truth
In our desperation to makes sense of a complex world, we've damaged the concept of truth so badly we're now prepared to call it dead -- to our great detriment.
A View from the Road
Six weeks on the road across the country is a good way to refresh your view of all kinds of things.
Institutional versus cultural power
Our inability to distinguish, disconnect, and leverage different types of power is not just undermining discourse -- it's risking our republic.
Humanity versus Economics
What is Naomi Osaka withdrawing from The French Open really about?
"No one wants to work."
What's the relationship between health, meaning, work, and survival in America?
What are we talking about when we talk about gender?
Sex, gender, sexuality – conflating these concepts and their vocabularies is making it harder to create a more equitable society
New founders same as the old founders
What The US Constitution can teach us about reforming modern media
Compartmentalization is a privilege
The language of environmentalism
Global warming became climate change. What needs to come next?