Practicing Wisdom — Issue #6

This week I explored how scale reshapes meaning — and often corrodes it. Google grew from a search engine into a civilization-scale operating system, but lost narrative coherence along the way. Open source ideals eroded under commercial pressure. Even intimacy is now monetized through platforms like OnlyFans. Yet in education, Alpha School shows scale can be rebuilt human-first. The age of “platform decay” demands we return systems to a scale where integrity thrives.