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The opposite of sustainability is boredom
Before we can change the world, we need to pay attention to it.
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The work imperative
If we are the the sum of our actions, how much of ourselves are we willing to sell?
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Artificial Boundaries
As we continue to carve the world into smaller pieces, it's easy to lose sight of our own power to put it back together.
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The Illusion of Choice
In the search for freedom, how can we learn to see beyond the choices that have been pre-approved for us?
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Open for whom?
We're often told that all of the knowledge of the world is at our fingertips, yet it can still feel impossible to find what we're looking for.
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Education as Conditioning
First, we’re taught to comply. Then, to forget that we ever danced to our own rhythm.
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The Unconsented Arrival
In a life we didn't choose, what would allow us to make our own decisions?
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My coffee with David: A conversation about AI and control
The looming specter of AI apocalypse can feel almost inevitable due to the staggering momentum of technological development, but there are always new horizons available to those willing to change course.
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Why "everything is connected" can make you miserable
Is the weight of existential dread a sign we should turn back, or simply the growing pains of a new perspective?
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The Wisdom of a Handshake
How much might we still have to learn from the simple act of reaching out?
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Go Placidly
It makes sense to look to the past for wisdom, but what we find can sometimes be distressing.
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The Palaeography of the Future
Who can say what the future holds, but surely it won't involve long division.
🗞️ 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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