The Observer's Seat

Humans seem unusually attached to stories of leaving. Leaving home. Leaving bondage. Leaving certainty. Leaving one version of themselves behind in order to become another. So why do stories of crossings endure? Why do humans preserve them? The story of Exodus, for example, becomes one of humanity's greatest campfires, not because it tells us where people were, but because it introduces the c...

Season One Episode 1 of The Observer’s Seat starts with a walk through a personal framework I call the Campfire Theory—looking at how humans have always gathered, told stories, and made sense of being alive. Think of it as an introduction to your host, to the story telling, a different aspect of looking at history, part reflection, part “wait, why do we do it that way?”— while all meant to help yo...