This is a scribble pad for my thoughts on a range of interconnected topics that I call The Dizziness.
The name comes from Søren Kierkegaard's proverb "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." And it's how I think about this post-pandemic world full of newfound freedoms.
No longer tied to places by our jobs, we now have many more degrees of freedom in how we live our life. It's exhilarating. It's also anxiety-inducing.
I'm going to explore candidates for what might quell the anxiety of our newfound freedom:
Where will we find grounding? What will we put at the center of our lives? What will replace our stable job in our stable city in our stable home near our stable community?
We'll explore some of my favorite topics: New cities, coliving, decentralized scenes, online-first communities, life experiments, cohort-based programs.
I'd like the readership to be small, engaged, open-minded, non-judgmental, optimistic, and a tad geeky. The goal is to toy with some emerging ideas like a cat with a ball of yarn.
