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