PLAY

Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. -Lucia Capocchione

Contemplation 22 November 2025

Tiny Tome No. 5

Advice is inherently a mirror that reflects the hues of the adviser's psychology, experience, and truth. Rarely is advice a neutral transmission of pure wisdom.

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Tome 18 November 2025

Tiny Tome No. 4

Life happens and we edit, but we must avoid editing so much that we strip away the essence of our dreams, where what we desire to be and achieve is no longer visible in what we do.

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Contemplation 14 November 2025

Play

We revere productivity and progress, yet systematically eliminate the very mechanism that generates both.

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Contemplation 14 November 2025

New Sun

One who’s just momentarily distracted snaps back to their default frame soon after the dopamine hit. Break the cycle by designing a genuine shift.

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Art 12 November 2025

Gates' Law

Art repeatedly transforms neglected spaces into cultural and economic hubs, triggering cycles of revitalization that often lead to displacement. From SoHo’s artist-led rebirth to South Beach’s glamour revival and Wynwood’s street-art boom, creative energy drives property value but forces original residents out. Theaster Gates offers a countermodel in Chicago, using art to build community wealth and preserve local ownership, proving that renewal can elevate rather than erase.

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Communications 11 November 2025

Hospes

Hospes reflects the ancient concept of hospitality as a reciprocal relationship between host and guest. In light of the growing disconnect between what hospitality brands promise and what they deliver, this is a plea to see, to serve, and to surprise once more.

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AudioStory 1 November 2025

F AI L FATALE

When the AI bubble burst and fortunes evaporated overnight, most lost everything. But Dr. Cher Rie.

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Tome 27 October 2025

Tiny Tome No. 3

Altering how we see alters not just what we see, but who we become.

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Contemplation 21 October 2025

Anger

Explore the devastating physical toll of unchecked anger—a primal emotion that doesn’t just affect the mind, but wages war on the body itself.

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Contemplation 15 October 2025

Happiness Now

There is no Office of Happiness in the federal government. No cabinet position devoted to joy. No department measuring whether people can still afford to feel good. Why? Because we have not yet accepted that happiness is infrastructure. But how much longer can we afford not to care about happiness?

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Contemplation 9 October 2025

Imagine

On the eve of the 54th anniversary of John Lennon’s 'Imagine,' imagine human social and psychological structures where the pursuit of permanence through ownership, legacy, and preservation is abandoned in favor of impermanence and collective renewal.

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Tome 9 October 2025

Tiny Tome No. 2

Experiencing life inevitably means encountering difficulty, loss, pain, and uncertainty. There’s no way to shield someone completely from hardship without also removing them from life itself. The real gift we can offer others isn’t a life free from challenges, but the tools, support, and presence to help them navigate whatever comes.

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Tome 7 October 2025

Tiny Tome No. 1

Story transcends time and existence, forging continuity between generations. Our stories create a continuous thread, a line, capable of tracing the entirety of our human experience. Share them freely, share them often.

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Contemplation 7 October 2025

Terminal Order

The deafening phobia, paranoia, and psychosis of NOISE: Narcissistic Oligarchs Infected with Socio-economic Elitism.

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Communications 1 October 2025

Frequency Modulation

Community radio is a hyper-local gem for social connection powered by cultural expression, discovery and serendipity.

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CommunicationsDesign 27 September 2025

Spheghetti and

The Sphere is an exercise in ignorance and hubris. What it communicates is not innovation but rather a sharp disdain for human-centered design: An illuminated slap in the face to humanity (and architecture).

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Communications 26 September 2025

"2025 isn't 1982"

The art of authentic truth-sharing in a post-truth age of mass mistrust and misinformation.

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Communications 24 September 2025

Olfactory

Fragrance, the most visceral pathway to human consciousness, is a legitimate and sophisticated channel for communication, yet it remains confined to beauty rather than embraced by business.

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Communications 23 September 2025

Roomies

By authentically and humorously portraying the struggles of emerging adulthood, such as career changes and shifting relationships, BILT transforms branded content into a relatable life compass.

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Communications 21 September 2025

Sonic Service

Transforming service firms from transactional commodities into lifestyle signals with emotional and cultural cache.

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Contemplation 20 September 2025

The Middle

Life's inevitable end, the certainty of death, transforms the journey’s middle into its deepest source of meaning. Embracing presence over passage reveal the sacred completeness of each moment.

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Contemplation 19 September 2025

Eros '25

Chasing versions of achievement manufactured by the insecurity of looking out rather than looking in robs us of the opportunity to actualize our highest potential.

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Communications 15 September 2025

Am I the Drama?

Audiences crave the irreplaceable authenticity of genuine human connection. Cardi B's “Am I the Drama?” public relations stand as a dynamic example of putting people over pretenses and creating emotional engagement: fostering closes not calculated distance.

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Communications 11 September 2025

Architecture of Belonging

Most organizational crises don’t emerge from unforeseen circumstances and external forces; they stem from cultural voids, from the absence of shared understanding and genuine relationships.

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Art 27 August 2025

The Sanctuary of Art

In the quiet sanctuary where brush meets canvas and heart meets expression, something miraculous unfolds, healing. Healing that transcends the boundaries of conventional medicine and touches the deepest wells of human experience.

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Communications 4 August 2025

Public Rant

Why public relations must shift its core focus to purposeful human connection that builds long-term trust and away from the extreme spin, manipulation and deception that erode credibility and fuel public paranoia and distrust.

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