From the consortium

Articles.

Essays on creativity, play, AI, and the long view, from the seam between disciplines.

January 7, 2026
Human Flourishing at Civilizational Scale
An overview of energy, longevity, governance, and the transition to a civilization designed for human flourishing across millennia.
August 4, 2025
Why AI Amplifies Human Creativity
AI as a creative multiplier — what GitHub's Copilot study, METR's developer-productivity research, and the cognitive-offloading literature actually show, and how augmented creative teams are pulling ahead.
April 16, 2023
What Play Does to Creative Ability: Five Mechanisms from the Research
Cognitive flexibility, divergent thinking, problem-solving, flow, and collaboration — five mechanisms by which games measurably feed creativity, with the research that points to each.
February 4, 2023
Lucid Dreaming as a Creative Practice: MILD, WBTB, and Dream Yoga
An introduction to MILD, WBTB, reality testing, and the Buddhist tradition of dream yoga — three induction methods and a wisdom tradition.
February 4, 2023
Flow: Five Conditions for Getting In and Staying In
How to recognize, enter, and stay in the state of complete absorption Mihály Csíkszentmihályi called flow.