Let’s be honest—Cobra Kai shouldn’t work. A decades-late sequel to a beloved ‘80s underdog story? Sounds like nostalgia-bait. And yet, somehow, it punches through the noise and lands hard. Why? Because under all the roundhouse kicks and high school drama, it’s offering one of the most raw, revealing critiques of modern masculinity on screen today. […]
First off, I am totally geeking out over John Vervaeke and Shawn Coyne’s collaboration, Mentoring the Machines. I’ve been a huge fan of Vervaeke’s Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and After Socrates lecture series and of course, Shawn Coyne’s Story Grid process. When they got together to look at the impact of artificial intelligence, I
In a time when many feel adrift in a sea of information, distraction, and existential confusion, John Vervaeke’s lecture series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis arrives like a lighthouse cutting through the fog. Vervaeke, a cognitive scientist and professor at the University of Toronto, brings a rare and powerful fusion to the table: rigorous philosophy,
Michael Connelly returns with a fresh protagonist in Nightshade, introducing readers to Detective Stilwell, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective exiled to Catalina Island after politics force him off the homicide beat. What begins as a quiet post soon turns lethal, with the discovery of a body sunk to the bottom of the harbor and
