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Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. Walk into a dysfunctional organization and you can feel it. Before anyone explains the org chart or the quarterly numbers, your

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. You're in the middle of saying something hard. Maybe you're describing a loss, or confessing a fear,

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. Put two pendulum clocks on the same wall and wait. In 1665, the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens noticed something strange. The

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. There are moments when reality unmoors. The words coming out of someone's mouth suddenly sound like noise. The familiar

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. We've been thinking about trauma wrong. The conventional story treats trauma as a memory disorder. Something terrible happened. The

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. You're about to make a decision, and something in your stomach says no. Not your head—your gut. A

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. Where do you end and the world begin? It seems like an easy question. Your skin, obviously. The boundary is right