Of the crucial signs I’ve seen in kids, the most vital is a general decline in their ability to imagine. To generate—from their own minds—places, stories and perspectives, and to imagine their own selves and others in imagined worlds. It’s the most precious human capacity we have to protect.

Jack Conte | SXSW 2024 Keynote www.youtube.com/watch

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Watched: Footloose 🍿

Social media feels most alive when it brings us together through the things we love, the interests we pursue in life and share online. That’s when it’s genuinely fun ✨

Impossible to overstate how much good NASA and the crew of Artemis II have done for humanity at this moment in time. They knew we needed them to give us perspective and hope. The mission was nothing less than a global recalibration. What a massive, massive gift.

Watched: Steel Magnolias 🍿

Currently reading: When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard 📚

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