Think

THINK is ReflectionChic’s most free-spirited space. And I’d like it to stay that way. It’s not a daily column; it doesn’t have an editorial calendar; and it doesn’t necessarily have to have something intelligent to say every Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. THINK comes to life when there’s something worth pausing to consider. It could be a social issue, a news story, a political contradiction, or a collective behavior. Or technology, war, money, education, relationships, power, freedom, artificial intelligence. And perhaps something seemingly insignificant that, upon closer inspection, isn’t so insignificant after all.
The scope is deliberately broad. Curiosity, fortunately, has a hard time fitting neatly into categories.

THINK strives to be nonpartisan and agnostic. That doesn’t mean not having opinions. That would be rather suspicious. It means not setting out with the goal of defending a cause, a political party, a religion, an ideology, or one of the many “teams” into which we like to divide ourselves. I prefer to look at an issue from different perspectives, ask questions, and keep even the most uncomfortable possibility open: changing my mind. The goal isn’t to reach the end and declare, “This is the truth.”
I prefer to ask, “Are we sure it’s that simple?”

THINK isn’t meant to be a place where I write down my thoughts and wait for people to tell me how right I am or how unqualified I am to discuss a topic. There are already plenty of places for that. Every reflection inevitably starts from a particular point of view, but it doesn’t necessarily have to end there. You may agree. You may disagree. You may see something I haven’t seen. Even better. Dialogue isn’t about deciding who won. It’s about, ideally, understanding something we hadn’t understood before. And if a belief doesn’t survive an encounter with a different idea? So be it. Maybe we’ve learned something. In a world full of teams, here we leave a few chairs empty at the table.

ReflectionChic will post whenever there's something worth sharing. It might happen twice in a week. Or not at all for a month. The internet will probably survive.