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Reevaluating Essential Work
For decades, success has been narrowly defined by income and credentials, devaluing hands-on, care-based, and essential work. This disconnect ignores human history and fulfillment, where meaning came from tangible contribution. Restoring balance means recognizing all forms of labor that sustain life, dignity, and community—not just those that maximize profit.
Pete Ward
Dec 28, 20254 min read
Governance Beyond Ideology
Many crises blamed on leadership or personal failure are predictable outcomes of systems built on competition, extraction, and short-term incentives. Anthropolis makes these systems legible—revealing how design choices shape housing, climate, and social outcomes—so societies can reclaim agency, redesign settlements at human scale, and move from resignation to stewardship.
Pete Ward
Dec 27, 20255 min read
The Quiet Erosion of Human-Scale Life
The Quiet Erosion of Human-Scale Life Social Organization Beyond Human Capacity Human beings are profoundly social, but not infinitely so. Across anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology, a consistent insight emerges: there are practical limits to the number of stable, meaningful relationships any individual can sustain. These limits are not cultural accidents or personal shortcomings; they are rooted in cognition, time, and emotional bandwidth. The study of functio
Pete Ward
Dec 26, 20254 min read
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