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Letter 2: Trust your own lead
Whether leading or following, the first person you have to trust is you.
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From Non-Places to relational depth: AI as a mirror for reflection
Can our awareness breathe life into even the most transactional spaces?
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Holding Space for the Unknown: Curiosity as a Design Stance
How facilitators can design for aliveness by trading certainty for presence, and making room for what wasn’t in the plan.
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Theory and Practice
Teaching is often much easier in theory.
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Our Seven Worst Weaknesses
Sometimes a change in perspective is all that stands between our worst weaknesses and our greatest gifts.
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The Problem of Fairness
How can we know what's fair when our understanding of the word may depend on the hand we've been dealt?
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The Politics of Uplift
As we struggle to raise ourselves up, what are we willing to bury in the process?
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The Politics of Canyons
As inexorable as the forces of division may seem, everything a river erodes is deposited somewhere downstream.
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Habitual change or changing habits
When change is the status quo, how do we know if we're changing for the better?
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Multi-tasking for Dummies
When our best laid plans go awry, can we learn to trust the process?
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Get Unstuck
What if you’re not stuck — just circling the wrong question?
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What Does It Mean to "Read" in the Digital Age?
In a world flooded with content and hungry for context, what if the future of reading isn’t about books, but about reclaiming art, attention, and literacy through a return to the Didactic Muse — reviving bardic acts of gathering and sense-making in the algorithmic age.
🏛️ How Republics Unravel
Lessons from Edward Gibbon and his history of Rome's collapse. Decline, as Gibbon tells it, isn't just geopolitical but psychological, even spiritual — a civilisation continuing outwardly while 'a pervasive nihilism can incapacitate a people from within'. Not doom-saying so much as pattern
Read the note ↗📚 Is Literacy Really Declining?
'Your inability to focus isn't a moral failing. It's a design problem.' Humans have fretted about declining literacy for centuries — from Thomas More to penny dreadfuls to comic books. Carlo Iacono argues the real issue isn't screens but the environments built around them: notifications, i
Read the note ↗🎶 Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
Adam Neely turns what could've been a cranky 'AI is bad' rant into a rich meditation on what music means — to artists, listeners and communities. A careful walkthrough of the culture forming around tools like Suno: why so many musicians recoil, why some lean in, and where the real stakes l
Read the note ↗🧠 Diseases of the Will
A century before your favourite productivity guru, neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramón y Cajal handed out devastatingly precise diagnoses for what ails the creatively ambitious but motivationally cursed — six 'diseases of the will,' a lovingly savage taxonomy of minds that can't get out of
Read the note ↗📸 Screenshot That Podcast Quote
A neat fix for a problem every podcast listener knows: you hear something worth remembering, but by the time you try to capture it the moment's gone. Screenshot your player (with a visible timestamp), email it in, and within a minute you get back the clip and a full transcript — no app, no
Read the note ↗🧮 Thinking Fast, Slow, and Super Slow
Kahneman gave us fast intuition vs. slow reason. Mathematician David Bessis gently rebels, pointing at what's missing: System 3, the inner bridge where intuition and logic learn to talk to each other. 'When my intuition tells me A and my reason tells me B… that's the moment to resort to Sy
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