How to See in Full Resolution
Aemula Writer Spotlight - 12.11.25
“There are roughly 85,000 American journalists
67% believe that social media has a negative impact on journalism
65% believe that they don’t have freedom in selecting the stories they write
34% of American journalists are independent, but lack the support, stability, and tools offered by major media publications, making it difficult to compete
The faults of our current news distribution methods are well-known. Solving these issues is vital to restoring trust and stability to our complex social structures.
We believe the solution relies on empowering independent journalists to speak from their unique perspectives and expertise.
We believe the solution depends on readers being able to discover relevant information from diverse viewpoints, expanding their understanding of the world.
We have the technology to make this possible.”
— Modified excerpt from “Expanding Worldviews”, Aemula Writer Spotlight — 9.26.24
As consolidation in the media industry accelerates, the amplified voices we read become increasingly funneled through fewer outlets. Subscription fatigue and fragmented discovery have left us with tunnel vision. We are only capable of seeing what is in the immediate surroundings of personal information environments.
Instead, if we want to understand the full nature of our reality, we need to look at it in its entirety, embracing the nuance that fuels our individual beliefs. By enabling every journalist to write independently and every reader to freely explore new perspectives, we can begin to construct our worldviews in full resolution.
Aemula is built to support independent journalism in a world where all journalism is conducted independently.
This week, we continue our book recommendations with more works from the Aemula bookshelf. We encourage you to explore these titles to better understand the ideas underlying Aemula.
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By David Epstein
“David Epstein examined the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. He discovered that in most fields—especially those that are complex and unpredictable—generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see.
Provocative, rigorous, and engrossing, Range makes a compelling case for actively cultivating inefficiency. Failing a test is the best way to learn. Frequent quitters end up with the most fulfilling careers. The most impactful inventors cross domains rather than deepening their knowledge in a single area. As experts silo themselves further while computers master more of the skills once reserved for highly focused humans, people who think broadly and embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly thrive.”
Finite and Infinite Games
By James P. Carse
“Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are more mysterious. Their object is not winning, but ensuring the continuation of play. The rules may change, the boundaries may change, even the participants may change—as long as the game is never allowed to come to an end.
What are infinite games? How do they affect the ways we play our finite games? What are we doing when we play—finitely or infinitely? And how can infinite games affect the ways in which we live our lives?
Carse explores these questions with stunning elegance, teasing out of his distinctions a universe of observation and insight, noting where and why and how we play, finitely and infinitely. He surveys our world—from the finite games of the playing field and playing board to the infinite games found in culture and religion—leaving all we think we know illuminated and transformed.”
Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life
By Jason Blakely
“Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and competing ideas in order to better understand why ideology in the modern era can be so divisive.
Lost in Ideology sets out from the conviction that the current disorientation engulfing the world’s liberal democracies is in no small part ideological in origin. People feel confused because there are multiple ideological maps, so to speak, each marked by dramatically different points of interest, rivers, summits, roads, and total topographies. Ideology in the modern era has the paradoxical effect of orienting millions even as it disorients millions. This leads us to the present-day predicament in which individuals of every imaginable political stripe confidently declare: ‘I have a theory – but you? You have an ideology!’”
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