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Forget Gadgets: Why Questions Are the Ultimate Tech for the Soul
December 11, 2024 Posted by Curtis Chang in Curtis Chang Newsletter
I confess I’m a sucker for a particular kind of online article that proliferates this holiday season: the one that lists “the top tech gifts for the year.” As my friend Andy Crouch has explained on this Good Faith podcast, technology whispers the ancient promise of magic: new powers, effortlessly acquired. Suppose that I recommended […]
Everything Has Changed, Nothing Has Changed
November 11, 2024 Posted by Curtis Chang in Curtis Chang Newsletter
Like so many, I woke up the day after the election to what felt like a changed world. To lay my cards out, I was much more voting against the dangers of another Trump administration than out of enthusiastic embrace of a Harris agenda. Given my evaluation (which I recognize may or may not be shared by everyone […]
10 Things To (Keep) Reminding Yourself This Election Season
October 11, 2024 Posted by Curtis Chang in Curtis Chang Newsletter
I like to be creative. I am most energized when I’m coming up with a fresh insight, a never before articulated metaphor, or building an original product. For many months, while I was developing The After Party course, writing the book with Nancy French, and catalyzing the production of Songs for The After Party, my […]
Belonging Comes Before Belief … and other lessons from the road
September 20, 2024 Posted by Curtis Chang in Curtis Chang Newsletter, The After Party
I’ve been on the road in recent weeks and I’d like to share with you some notes from my travels. Last week, I joined our (new!) friends at Democracy Notes for a thoughtful conversation over breakfast in Chicago. The attendees are involved in the democracy space in a wide variety of ways and it was […]
Buckling Up for Election Season
August 27, 2024 Posted by Curtis Chang in Curtis Chang Newsletter, The After Party
As my “founding friend” David French and I covered in a recent podcast, this has been an incredibly crazy summer for our nation. The American political landscape has been marked by an unprecedented series of ups and downs and rapid reversals of direction. Unlike many seasons where you could log off only to find most […]
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