52 things I learned in 2021

This year I edited another book, worked on fascinating projects at Fluxx + mN , and learned many learnings. Tom Whitwell is Managing Consultant at Fluxx + mN, a company that uses experiments to understand customers, helping clients solve big problems and build better products.

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Public opinion was very conservative in the 1990s

Lately, some people have suggested that the Democratic Party could use an ideological recalibration, specifically invoking the legacy of Bill Clinton and often the idea of a “Sister Souljah moment.

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A Lifeline for the Hour of Despair: James Baldwin on 4AM, the Fulcrum of Love, and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe

“Yesterday has already vanished among the shadows of the past; to-morrow has not yet emerged from the future. You have found an intermediate space,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of life’s most haunting hour.

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The Scandal of Particularity, Black Lives, and Jesus

God loves all people by loving a particular people. The movement called “Black Lives Matter” has been a source of controversy among Christians. The affirmation that black lives matter should not be.

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Trailblazing Composer Julia Perry on Music as the Universal Language of Love and Mutual Understanding

Julia Perry (March 25, 1924–April 25, 1979) studied at Juilliard, studied in Paris, spent more than a decade composing a haunting opera based on the Salem witch trials, wrote an operatic ballet based on Oscar Wilde’s almost unbearably tender book The Selfish Giant and a stunning orchestral requi

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Love and Limerence: The Forgotten Psychologist Dorothy Tennov’s Revelatory Research into the Confusions of Bonding

“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will,” Stendhal wrote in his landmark 1822 “crystallization” model of how we fall in and out of love.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Stirring Diary Reflections on His Dying Mother and His Five-Year-Old Daughter

It is said that Orlando, inspired by the passionate real-life love Virginia Woolf shared with Vita Sackville-West, is “the longest and most charming love letter in literature” — said by Vita’s own son.

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Seneca on Gratitude and What It Really Means to Be a Generous Human Being

“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes,” Annie Dillard wrote in her beautiful case for why a generosity of spirit is the greatest animating force of creativity.

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‘We are still here’

There are more than 570 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and villages in the United States. Still, too many people assume all American Indians are dead; they have an image in their heads of old black-and-white photos of western Plains Indians who performed in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. For many Native Americans, the message to the rest of society is simple: “We’re still here.”

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In Arbery’s death, an echo of the ‘sundown towns’ that banned and threatened Black people

The signs are gone now, but once they were a part of America’s roadside culture, posted along the highway at the town or county line, a blunt reminder of brutal racism.

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