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🧵Loving the Work of Our Hands

🧵Loving the Work of Our Hands

Step Inside: Meet four people who found deep satisfaction not in what they achieved, but in what they created with their own two hands. From woodshops to flower studios, discover why the simple act of making things might be the secret to resilience, meaning, and joy—and what neuroscience reveals about our evolved need to shape the world around us.

🧵What's Next for The Thread

🧵What's Next for The Thread

Step Inside: After 33 consecutive weeks, The Thread is evolving. Discover why we're shifting from weekly to monthly editions and introducing our final series exploring love of craft in everyday lives.

🧵What Survived the American Experiment?

🧵What Survived the American Experiment?

Step Inside: We examine lives built from inherited pieces rather than promised foundations. What does it mean to adapt, survive, and innovate within the outcomes of decades-long experiments? Plus, the final chapter of a personal reckoning with living as data in America's ongoing laboratory.

🧵The Variables: Who Gets Tested in America?

🧵The Variables: Who Gets Tested in America?

Step Inside: We examine lives shaped by institutional forces—from fire departments to corrections to refugee resettlement. What does it mean to navigate systems rather than choose them? Plus, the personal reckoning with living as a variable in America's ongoing experiment.

🧵The Hypothesis: What America Promised to Prove

🧵The Hypothesis: What America Promised to Prove

Step Inside: We examine lives shaped by America's biggest promises - education, merit, opportunity. What did the experiment claim to test, and who believed it could work? Plus, the personal reckoning that started with a 13-year-old's refusal to pledge.

🧵 Summer Intermission: Your Favorites & What's Coming

🧵 Summer Intermission: Your Favorites & What's Coming

Step Inside: Before we launch into July, we're revisiting the three editions that moved you most this spring. Plus, your curator reveals a question that's haunted him since age 13.

🧵 Final Lessons: What Education Means at Life's End

🧵 Final Lessons: What Education Means at Life's End

Step Inside: 25 years after graduation, we examine the ultimate report cards. What fills obituaries when the degrees fade? Plus, why your midlife pivot might be your greatest education yet.

🧵 A Father's Curriculum

🧵 A Father's Curriculum

Step Inside: This Father's Day, discover what obituaries reveal about the unofficial universities men create in garages, on mountains, and wherever life happens. Plus, why today's boys are desperate for these lessons.

🧵 The Price of Admission: When Diplomas Don't Deliver

🧵 The Price of Admission: When Diplomas Don't Deliver

Step Inside: They promised education would be your ticket. But to where, exactly? This week's obituaries reveal the truth about degrees, debt, and what actually creates economic security.

🧵 Lessons that Last: The Shadow Classroom

🧵 Lessons that Last: The Shadow Classroom

Step Inside: Our June series begins with a 25-year reunion that bridges segregated past and integrated present. Discover what the lives of Frederick Douglass High School alumni teach us about education's true legacy.

🧵 What Veterans Teach Us About Living

🧵 What Veterans Teach Us About Living

Step Inside: Discover how veterans really want to be remembered through obituary patterns, why some thrive after service while others struggle (featuring insights from Disabled American Veterans), and how Memorial Day evolved from cemetery visits to BBQs 🍔 Plus: Echo hosts a data-driven virtual cookout!

🧵 Treasures That Tell Our Story

🧵 Treasures That Tell Our Story

Step Inside: Explore the stories hidden in the objects we leave behind, preview our Memorial Day tribute to veterans, and get a first look at our summer exploration of how education shapes our legacies.

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