Issue 01 · A New Publication

what is a human for

in a century built to make you forget.

The Human Template is a slow publication for people watching their work, their attention, and their lives quietly commoditize. We publish one essay a week. One letter on Sunday. One conversation each Thursday. And one annual ritual every December. By named humans. Without hurry. Read at your own pace.

The Six Templates · The Spine of a Life

Every life rotates through these six. Every life rotates through them differently.

From the Manifesto

A person is a rational animal that knows it will die.

A person loves a few other animals.

A person makes things with their hands and their mind.

A person lives somewhere.

A person is trying, usually badly and sometimes beautifully, to make a life that means something before the lights go out.

— The Human Template, A Manifesto
What We Publish
Every December

the annual review.

A two-hour exercise. Fifty questions. A printed workbook, mailed to every member in December. The end-of-year ritual built for people who do not need another set of resolutions, but do need a place to ask, honestly, where the year went.

The Letter

sunday mornings. for the long horizon.

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