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Friction

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  Where in your life have you been quietly optimizing for frictionless?

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Artist Date

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  Artist dates aren’t just for artists. Two hours. No phone. No agenda. Just notice things. That’s w...

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Madonna & mobiles

By David Werdiger | 2 min read

  Madonna, at Coachella this year: “I came to Earth to be a doer not a watcher.” The Hollywood Repor...

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Anxiety

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  The one thing every human being will face is also the thing many of us avoid thinking about. Mortality is our ...

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Hippies & clicktivism

By David Werdiger | 2 min read

  An idea has been sitting with me from a piece on why the left can’t seem to build a movement with the sa...

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Shared Meals & Presence

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  We’d give anything for more time with our families.   So why let our devices steal our attention from our most...

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Eyes down vs Eyes up

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  Next time you’re on the street or on public transport, look around. Eyes up, or eyes down? We ask the sa...

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The Therapy Session

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  We often design our work around the clock, rather than giving the work the time it actually needs.   Some conv...

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Meeting Someone Across the Room

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  We used to meet people through curiosity. Now we meet them through search results. Before the first conversati...

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Artist dates aren't just for artists.

Two hours. No phone. No agenda. Just notice things.
That's where your best ideas actually come from.

Try it this week, then tell me what you noticed.

Madonna, at Coachella this year: "I came to Earth to be a doer not a watcher." The Hollywood Reporter

She was talking about looking out at a sea of phones during her own show and not being able to see a single face.

Recently, attendees were forced to place their phones and

The one thing every human being will face is also the thing many of us avoid thinking about.

Mortality is our only certainty, yet it's incredibly difficult to confront because it forces us to face the unknown. In this clip, we explore why fear of death shapes so much of how we

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