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Your hidden operating system
How does the architecture of language shape our experience of the world?
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Healing Fragmentation: A book about process, and a process you can join
We're publishing Marcus Barrick's Healing Fragmentation one section at a time across the coming year, with a circle of readers in the room for the part that is still becoming. Here's what it is, and how to be in it.
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In defense of discernment
As our access to information grows, so does our responsibility to decide what we do with it.
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From information to wisdom: Reimagining education for an interconnected world
In a world where knowledge is increasingly accessible, why does education so often miss the mark, and how might we get it back on course?
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Conscious participation
It can sometimes feel as if meaningful change only comes from sudden paradigm shifts, dramatic declarations, and overwhelming force. But just as wind whittles away stone, evolution often occurs through the accumulation of small changes.
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Authentic connection
Could being present with each other be a blueprint for a better world?
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Moving towards a life-based paradigm
Resisting the status-quo can feel like a Sisyphean task, but what if the world we're working towards is better served by setting the boulder aside from time to time.
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Creative Defiance
No matter how oppressive our circumstances, the simple act of caring can be transformative.
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In defense of woo-woo
We tend to treat beliefs as simple reflections of reality, yet power often proves to be the measure of truth.
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Seeing through the darkness
It can feel deeply unsettling to confront our limitations, but if we dare to look closely, we may find new possibilities as well.
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Systemic pathology: The unseen wound
Distress is a perfectly healthy response to a distressing situation.
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Surveillance and control
It is often argued that privacy is a small price to pay for progress, but is this truly a necessary sacrifice or more of a Faustian bargain?
🗞️ The Myth of the Informed Citizen
Nicholas Carr traces a recurring fantasy of modern life: that each new communication technology, from the telegraph to the internet, would produce wiser citizens and healthier democracies — and how each expansion of information instead bred new forms of confusion and overload. At its centr
Read the note ↗🎥 Who Is the Worst Person Louis Theroux Has Met?
Louis Theroux has spent decades sitting with people most of us would keep at a distance and gently asking them to explain themselves. What he keeps finding isn't unbridgeable otherness but something more unsettling: familiar motives, loosely held, rarely examined. Echoing Arendt's 'banalit
Read the note ↗👁️ To Be There but Not to Be Seen
A former New York City pickpocket, Wilfred Rose, returns to the subway where he worked, narrating how he did it and what it cost him — how to read a crowd, choreograph attention, pass without notice. Alongside the craft is the other side: arrests, family, loss, and a habit he describes as
Read the note ↗📖 Iran's Ultimate Banned Book
'Iran has been trapped in a cycle of self-love and self-hate for centuries, and nothing captures that contradiction like The Blind Owl.' Banned both before and after 1979, the novel follows a troubled painter through a surreal, fragmented narrative. Amir Ahmadi Arian traces its strange aft
Read the note ↗🗿 When a Culture No Longer Wants to Live
Paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak pushes past the 'Neanderthals were basically us' rehabilitation to something more unsettling: what if they were genuinely different — different minds, different relationships to territory and meaning? He suggests their disappearance followed a collapse of
Read the note ↗🎙️ A Real Company Staffed by Fake People
A podcast in which a journalist investigates entrepreneurship in the AI age by trying to run a real company staffed by fake (AI) people. Somewhere between investigative journalism and deadpan performance art — no breathless futurism, no moral panic. It quietly shows how much of 'running a
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