Heir?
Hello! Welcome to Heir to the Thought. Usually referred to simply as Heir, I use this Substack to write about a variety of subjects near and dear to me, subjects which, broadly speaking, orient towards the idea of digital humanism — ways of thinking and paths to action for the individual who wishes to live humanely within a deeply technologised age. If you wish to live in the full flower of your humanity without rejecting the bounties of tech in which we are, for better and worse, trapped, then you may find things here that are of use to you.
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The Heir Society
The community attached to this Substack is small but thriving and, I’m very proud to say, profoundly committed. Fine conversation tends to spring up underneath most of what we publish and I aim always to respond to every comment readers are gracious enough to leave on my work.
While a great many thinkers of our time, high-profile and obscure, have committed themselves with great interest to the question “How do we remain human in our highly dehumanising world?”, Heir to the Thought is perhaps the only one which essays that question systematically.
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