Original Essays
Immersive reading experiences where ideas fade into focus. Each scroll is a meditation on modern life and timeless truths.
We write not to inform, but to transform. Each scroll invites you to slow down, to let the words emerge from the silence, and to consider how we might live more deliberately in an age of infinite distraction.
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We dedicate a room for each of man's essential functions: eating, sleeping, and watching TV. As our wallets grow, so do our homes. Many now have a home office, man-cave, or home gym. Yet, where is the room to cultivate our mind?
The Collection
Us men of the second millennium have a new God. We reserve the greatest room in our house for his Temple. We mount the largest screen we have above the altar.
We used to have a parlor, from the French parler meaning "to speak." The room was centered on conversation. The chairs and couches faced inward.
We know iPads are too entertaining for children. So we quickly make rules regarding their use. We're slower to admit that our digital devices are too addicting for us.
Many still say they are Christian. But I've never met one who reads the Holy Book for half as much time as they watch the Holy Screen.
We used to be the most literate society on earth. Now, reclining in our couches, scrolling on our phones, we lament the declining character of our public figures.
An introduction to the scroll format. Why we read this way and how it changes the experience of engaging with ideas.
We live with more information in our pockets than any scholar of the last five centuries could have dreamed. And yet, strangely, we know less.
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.Sun Tzu