Writing by Toby Shorin

Settle down, settle down, look closely, and take a minute to settle in, beginning by imagining a plane of pure light at the top of your head—now sense as it passes its way down the tip of your scalp, down to your forehead, notice it rolling over the bridge

In Prototyping Social Forms of Care, I introduced the term “social forms,” which I defined as “the structured architectures of behavior that determine the shape of social situations,” or as “the templates of social life.”

Next Friday, March 28th, I'm opening a pop-up art exhibition at Baukunst (433 Cortland Ave, San Francisco) on the theme of ⦿ Centers, physical community spaces with a healing focus.

I’m coming up on a year of researching health and wellness, and I’m starting to notice parallels to phenomena I studied in the crypto space.

Jared Zhang is a conceptual artist and community designer.

The behavior described by the term “narcissist” is a natural kind in the human sciences.

A couple months ago I was carpooling with my friend Kati Devaney on the way back from a gathering of California Buddhists.

How is “healing” different than “curing?”

My typical approach to analyzing cultures is to research and understand their moral foundations.

This June I stayed in Healdsburg, CA for a month for the Edge Esmeralda pop-up village.

A Protestant Reformation of psychiatry is under way.

I am launching a new course called Values Lab alongside my friend Benjamin Gabbai.

Research and learning is one pillar of Care Culture, but I'm slowly standing up a second: engaging with and transforming care practices.

Most of my reading these days is focused on psychology and deepening my understanding of cultural determinants of health.

Since the 1970s, clinical researchers have mounted a large body of evidence demonstrating that social ties or the lack thereof play an important role in mortality rates and in disease prevention.