Inspirational storytelling is also aspirational: even as it necessarily integrates the creator’s subjectivity, thoughtful universalities invite us to see who we’d like to be in the offered narrative.

We’ve all made room for more forms of inspiration by giving ourselves permission to create and connect differently in the past year. Here’s to accepting our muse when and where we can find it, similarly using the best-available tools.

In this transformative time, we question once-unassailable pillars — democracy, capitalism, freedom of expression, equality — and the sacred stories that have supported them. They founder in the face of new realities: technological upheaval, information overload, and massive inequities. We need to openheartedly reshape and reimagine those institutions and stories. Yet we’re hampered by a…

It’s clear that it’s a challenge to lead live, virtual conversations during a global pandemic — let alone make sense of the virus itself during those gatherings. The technology can be tenuous, your guests are far-flung, and you can’t see your audience. If that’s not enough to bolster your sense of uncertainty and vulnerability, you’re…