Novum

A blog about new ideas, history & our weird present

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My perspective starts from the view that we’re living through something of an inflection point. One of its defining features is a deep and widespread feeling of uprootedness, largely caused by online life. Volatile periods like today are defined by unknowns. Novel ways of thinking and living emerge, sometimes by accident. The word “novum” is defined as the potential for newness in culture, politics, and everyday life. Uncertain times like ours arguably experience novum “in the extreme.” Given that we’re so overloaded with such feelings nowadays, I felt this was a nice name for my newsletter. Novum covers the great transformations upending our world with history as a guide.

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The Social Recession: By the Numbers

Fewer friends, relationships on the decline, delayed adulthood, trust at an all-time low, and many diseases of despair. The prognosis is not great.

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