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As this message reaches your inbox, I’m scheduled to be onstage at the Aspen Ideas Festival, interviewing Patagonia C.E.O. Ryan Gellert about leading a company with a radical commitment to solving climate change. Midweek, I’m hosting a hands-on generative A.I. workshop, before closing out the festival with a conversation with architect Sir David Adjaye (famed designer of the National Museum of African American History and Culture) and writer Spencer Bailey, who collaborated on a new book, Alchemy, which is centered around Adjaye’s work.

I’m constantly thinking about the intersection of democracy, people power, and how we show up for each other, and those themes are even more resonant during “Civic Season,” the period between Juneteenth and the Fourth of July. Yesterday, I found myself profoundly moved by an exhibit at...