telos

They call their creative process “convoluted” — they get captivated with the seed of an idea, and then hunt around for its telos.

They kept one foot in Taiwan and raised their son in Chinese-speaking communities, bequeathing to him the “telos of self-improvement baked into the immigrant experience.”

The manager had to come over, and they were given a new server who didn’t care about the cash value or telos of a comic book.

“In my experience,” he says, “a telos crisis comes in two forms, walking and sleeping.”

Diversity for its own sake, without a common telos, is infinitely centrifugal, and leads to social fragmentation.