Discussion : Building Community
Brand leaders, ambassadors, and media spend countless hours strategizing the best ways to build their digital communities. It’s an imperative element of modern day commerce, and institutions who neglect it are sure to fall by the wayside. At Outpost Joshua Tree, we brought together a few industry leaders after breakfast that Saturday to talk about…
End of Drought is Great for CA’s Weed Cultivators, but Innovation will Ensure the Future
California’s cannabis growers are loving the rain — but wisely still planning for what comes next. By Zack Ruskin For Californians, this winter’s record rainfalls have mostly been a welcome, if surreal, sight. Following its driest three-year stretch on record, a series of severe storms across the state in early 2023 have seen the state…
Tycho Talks Breaks for Inspiration to Better Create
Scott Hansen is known as the embodiment of Tycho and the go to composer behind many creative professional’s inspirational background music since launching Past Is Prologue in 2010. Even Hansen acknowledges that his music is great background for creative endeavors as the meditative quality of it helps you work through your process. “Music is more important than coffee when…
Christopher Willits and B&O Play Sound Bath
Experiences of being “inside the music,” together, have great social-emotional benefit for society. It’s similar to what happens in meditation or when someone is on psychedelics. Micheal Pollan goes into detail about this in his book “How to Change Your Mind.” The default mode network of the brain relaxes, allowing for new connections in the…
NASA Astronaut, Yvonne Cagle, Discusses Biomimicry and Our Planet’s Future
Photography by: Molly DeCoudreaux (above) and Matt Lief Anderson (below) Yvonne Cagle is a NASA astronaut thinking about our survival on Mars and beyond. She sees “Earth as its own spaceship, a mothership” that ensures human and natural species are highly adaptable to new environments. She looks for solutions in earth’s natural environment to problems…