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Max Zahn

Max Zahn is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Religion Dispatches
“Wisdom 2.0?” meditation teacher Kenneth Folk has famously pondered. “That’s a networking opportunity with a light dressing of Buddhism.” If mindfulness has gone corporate, then Wisdom 2.0 is its…
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Religion Dispatches
If the words “corporate” and “mindfulness” no longer sound strange together, it’s partly because of the career of Chade-Meng Tan. A software engineer from Singapore, Tan joined Google in 2000 as…
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Religion Dispatches
Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps technology’s unstoppable progress—ever more pervasive and persuasive—has grabbed us in a fearful…
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