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Meditation Primer: Part 1
Navigate the rich landscapes of meditation by grokking various practices, from Shamatha's calm abiding to Vipassana's insightful mindfulness.
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Meditation for ADHD
Reduce reactivity, detach from distraction, and find focus.
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Liberalism and the politics of getting rid of politics
Liberalism nobly attempts to transcend the messiness of politics through a reliance on law and a vision of universal principles. But in its pursuit of a rational and conflict-free societal order, does liberalism undermine the political agency and ethical discourse necessary for a vibrant democracy?
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After the End of History: thoughts on thawing our frozen politics
Few things divide us more than politics, yet one thing almost all of us can agree on is that our politics is broken. Liberal democracy itself is in crisis - why? Can there be hope of a more beautiful politics before it all falls apart?
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The Art of Ambivalence: Finding Strength in Contradiction
How embracing ambivalence can lead to strength in contradiction and growth as a grokkist.
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Planning for a Positive Future: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Climate Change Adaptation - Lara Clarke | S3E2
Lara is a New Zealand-based planner with over 10 years of experience in the field, working across the public and private sectors at the intersection of policy, science, and community engagement. We discuss breaking down institutional knowledge barriers and public participation in planning.
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“I’m crafting a story to get something done” - Sam Hoffman | S3E1
Sam is a multidisciplinary creative with roots in copywriting and content creation for Broadway shows and Fortune 500s. He's also a high school speech and debate coach with one of the nation's top programs. We discuss the creative strategy and seduction of authentic storytelling and storydoing.
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How we design conscious, creative and caring virtual learning - Seth Fleischauer | S2E10
Seth is the President & Founder at Banyan Global Learning, a group of educators who deliver live virtual programs in social and emotional learning (SEL), Digital Citizenship, and Global Citizenship. We talk about what it means to design education that helps us find our place in the world.
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From classroom to corporate with TESOL teacher and instructional designer Diego Boada | S2E8
Listen Now Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify About the Episode Key Topics Losing your job in the pandemic and reverse culture shock when moving
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"How good are you willing to allow your life to get?": what happens when we set transformational goals – Ann Collins | S2E3
Ann Collins is an Executive and Leadership Coach who helps senior leaders to get clarity on their next career steps and transition into new roles with confidence and ease. We discuss the importance of setting expansive goals, understanding one’s values, and letting go of limiting beliefs.
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"Don't start demoing, start listening": Why the salespeople we trust are experts in their clients' needs - Bo Alroe | S1E9
Bo is an expert in sales management, strategy and execution in the enterprise software industry, based in Denmark. We talk about how to walk into a room and what it means to establish a cycle of curiosity with your clients.
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"Whose rule is that?" Examining the self-talk that limits our potential - Gail Reichert | S1E5
Gail develops and runs leadership programs in organisations to help people increase their self insight and become better leaders. We discuss why people can be really intellectually smart, but if they're not aware of the emotional impact they're having on others, then they won't be very effective.
🏛️ 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
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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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