From Information Saturation
Profit-driven corporations are stealing our valuable time through algorithms that feed us brainrot, clickbait and doomscrolling. Traditional news media drowns us in sensational noise making us lose the bigger picture. We’re left exhausted, distracted, and disconnected from what actually matters.
To bottom-up co-creation
Shifting your information diet from fast-food content to homemade wisdom, we're building an alternative media system.
✅ Independent insights, authentic voices, and community-building.
❌ No corporate influence, censorship, or ChatGPT word slop.What-if-we-Thrived.com informs and empowers deep thinkers and feelers worldwide.
Our essays
Critical
Thinking
Radical
Love
• #4 What if we adopted a Relationship Anarchy approach to connection?
• #7 What if we travelled with love rather than currency?
Building
Faith
• #1 What if we Thrived? the purpose of this independent media
Redesigning
Society
• #3 What if you wrote and shared essays? make some f*cken noise
Sustainability
and Society
• #5 What if we travelled to touch wild grass? our wild camping trip in Switzerland
• #6 Epilogue to ‘What if we travelled to touch wild grass?’
Upcoming
essays...
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Your Essays!
• Pitch an essay you'd like to publish (contact us directly or in the chat)
• Join one of the listed essays as co-writer
Our values
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Independence
We develop thought free from corporate or institutional influence.
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Authenticity
We write like ChatGPT never could: with honesty, vulnerability, and soul.
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Constructiveness
We provide insights that inspire personal, interpersonal, and structural change.
Our Vision
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Community-driven
We platform personal stories and hot takes on thriving with the support of a community chat that creates a space for meaningful connection.
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Direction
Free from algorithmic manipulation and censorship, we give attention to what matters and build an active faith while doing so.
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Growth Opportunities
• Develop a poetry section
• Get republished in traditional media
• Translation into multiple languages
• Scale into a think-tank that shapes future thought-leadership
Our Team
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Founder
Atys Holmes-Michel
Thinker and lover currently based in Paris seeking opportunities in the sustainability field. Open to mentoring and mentorship :)
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Members
Our community chat enables conversations around essay ideas and drafts. Want to contribute to with theories, resources, memes...? Then join us! [Whatsapp link / Signal link]
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Become a Partner...
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