Your weekly dose of critical thinking and human flourishing

We're here to deliver critical insights through memeform essays enabling personal, interpersonal, and societal growth.

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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.

Critical
Thinking

• #1 What if we Thrived?
The Purpose of this Independent Media.
• #2 What if we were Critically Thinking?
• #3 What if you Wrote and Shared Essays? Make some F*cken Noise

Radical
Love

• #4 What if we adopted a Relationship Anarchy Approach to Connection?

Hope &
Activism

• #5 What if we built Activist Resilience? Part 1: Personal Resilience

Redesigning
Society

• #6 What if we made Sustainable Tourism more Common? My Wild Camping trip in Switzerland.

Sustainability
and Society

• #7 What if we Overcame Climate Inaction? Insights from Neuroscience

Upcoming
essays...

• Essays in progress

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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 a community chat that creates a space for meaningful connection and support.

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Direction

We are building a hope-nurturing community where ideas develop and spread free from algorithmic manipulation and censorship.

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Growth Opportunities

• Develop a poetry section
• Get republished in traditional media
• Translation into multiple languages
• Scale into a grassroots think tank that influences discourse, inspires activism, and 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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[X] Peers - Feedback Circle

Our community chat enables essay peer-review. Do you want to contribute to essay drafts with theories, resources, memes... then join us! [Whatsapp link / Signal link]

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Become a Partner!

Contribute an essay and become a partner of What If We Thrived. Let's turn this into a collaborative project ;)