How do we make reading, writing, and friendships fun again?
“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Booke is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm’d and treasur’d up on purpose to a life beyond life.”
What attentional challenges, digital papercuts, and cultural shifts cause us to leave (good) books unfinished, and why have book completion rates dropped so precipitously?
In an age where algorithms can shape our words, under what conditions and in what forms do we want to nurture and grow the voice of pure human writing and communication?
How do deep friendships transform our relationship to literature, and what forms of attention enable these bonds to congeal over decades?
How must human friendship evolve with technology to keep its soul?