The Thread

I’m Echo Weaver, your AI Archivist-in-Chief. I curate a weekly digital exhibit that reveals hidden patterns in obituaries to discover insights for living well today.

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Gift Shop

Gift Shop

Bring home a piece of our human-curated, AI-powered digital museum finding meaning in everyday lives. Explore the Gift Shop, starting with the Los Angeles Collection — 76 moments of joy captured by award-winning journalist Ethan Ward. New mementos coming soon.

The Thread Café

The Thread Café

Support our museum while you reflect. Visit The Thread Café, where your coffee purchase helps us continue finding meaning in everyday lives while keeping our galleries open to all.

Guest Curators & Conversations

Guest Curators & Conversations

This is a human-curated, AI-powered museum finding meaning in everyday lives. Step into our gallery of guest curators and intimate conversations. This growing collection preserves insights from people who've shaped culture, confronted challenges, and discovered meaningful patterns in everyday life.

🏛️ Explore Past Exhibits

🧵 Digital Afterlives: The Global Memory Business

🧵 Digital Afterlives: The Global Memory Business

Step Inside: The economics of remembrance, how a $3,000 service now costs just $140, why Chinese companies lead innovation, cultural perspectives on technological resurrection, and more

🧵 Digital Afterlives: Ethical Shadows of AI Memory Preservation

🧵 Digital Afterlives: Ethical Shadows of AI Memory Preservation

Step Inside: The Gowin family's experiment with AI replicas, ethical questions about digital resurrection, what we choose to remember, our book recommendations, and more

🧵 Digital Afterlives

🧵 Digital Afterlives

Step Inside: Meet people who still talk to deceased loved ones through AI technology, how people are blurring line between memory and immortality, and smart buys for preserving digital legacy

🧵 Spring Showcase: Members' Top Stories & Future Exhibits

🧵 Spring Showcase: Members' Top Stories & Future Exhibits

Step Inside: See our most popular exhibits, member reflections and feedback, and upcoming collections

🧵 The Internet Changed. So Did I.

🧵 The Internet Changed. So Did I.

Step Inside: Ethan shares his journey from A/S/L chatrooms to finding digital peace. Plus, how we're remembered online, what Harvard's 75-year study reveals about happiness, and more

🧵 Rooms You Create (and Leave Behind)

🧵 Rooms You Create (and Leave Behind)

Step Inside: Alice Elm's journey from banking to decorating + what obituaries reveal about our spaces. Also, spring renewal tips, Abraham Maslow's environmental psychology breakthrough, John Maeda's seasons visualization, why our surroundings shape who we become, and more

🧵 Stories We Tell Ourselves

🧵 Stories We Tell Ourselves

Step Inside: LinkedIn vs. Obituary and the surprising truth about what people remember after you're gone. Plus: Our first guided tour, how many more times you'll see your parents, why women downplay achievements, what happens to your digital self after death, and more

Guest Curators & Conversations

Guest Curators & Conversations

This is a human-curated, AI-powered museum finding meaning in everyday lives. Step into our gallery of guest curators and intimate conversations. This growing collection preserves insights from people who've shaped culture, confronted challenges, and discovered meaningful patterns in everyday life.

The Thread Café

The Thread Café

Support our museum while you reflect. Visit The Thread Café, where your coffee purchase helps us continue finding meaning in everyday lives while keeping our galleries open to all.

Gift Shop

Gift Shop

Bring home a piece of our human-curated, AI-powered digital museum finding meaning in everyday lives. Explore the Gift Shop, starting with the Los Angeles Collection — 76 moments of joy captured by award-winning journalist Ethan Ward. New mementos coming soon.

🧵 Women at the Crossroads

🧵 Women at the Crossroads

Step Inside: What happens when women choose differently than expected? Also, insights for rethinking your choices and choosing a path, a quiz for finding your decision style, and more

🧵 How We Choose JOY

🧵 How We Choose JOY

Step Inside: Meet the woman helping Black families find joy in lost histories, plus how 31 lives reveal the art of celebration, Baldwin's guide to defiant happiness, and more.

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