And So It Begins
Launching a newsletter, and a discussion
The remainder of the twenty-first century is going to be a time unlike any we have seen for generations.
The forces that will shape it have been building for decades. Some are economic and will restructure how we navigate our financial well-being. Others are technological, likely to entirely reshape educational paths and career identities. Threading through both are political dynamics that no longer supply a slow-moving, stable framework of laws and norms to buffer other processes so they evolve with less personal and societal risk.
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We are all going to find ourselves, sooner or later, between hammer and anvil. Many of you are there already, feeling new patterns being beaten into your lives. Whatever will be forged, one thing that seems increasingly clear is that formulae of past years — our life strategies — may no longer apply. It is up to us to do what we can to guide our re-shaping.
For many years I wanted to start a newsletter. Mostly I imagined it being some accumulation of technical and job-related ramblings. Some of it will remain so, but not all of it. The times have become larger, and more consequential, than I had planned on. I want this to be what I hope is one of many efforts, by many people, to figure out how to make what comes next be a positive thing in the historical record of the human experience. Right now it isn’t a given that this is what we will see, at least not for awhile, so we need to get to work.
Welcome to the start of the discussion. Plan on leaning in.
The Experimentalist : And So It Begins © 2025 by Reid M. Pinchback is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0