Are you a grokkist?
When your insistence on curiosity and care leads you into wonderful, terrible trouble only to guide you safely home again, you are walking the path of a grokkist, where curiosity and care are both the question and the answer.
Danu Poyner
Danu is the founder of Grokkist and host of the Still Curious Podcast. He is careful never to let school interfere with his education, and he loves the world—somebody has to.
89 posts
Deferred Action Game
A frustratingly fun interactive adventure in navigating bureaucracy.
Grokkist Newsletter #40 (Scholé Supplement)
Bi-weekly newsletter for grokkists who insist on relating to the world with curiosity and care. Each edition contains the latest from the Grokkist Press, events and highlights from our community, and a care package of snackable outside links selected to nurture your curiosity.
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?
Grokkist Newsletter #39 (Scholé Supplement)
Bi-weekly newsletter for grokkists who insist on relating to the world with curiosity and care. Each edition contains the latest from the Grokkist Press, events and highlights from our community, and a care package of snackable outside links selected to nurture your curiosity.
The Red Thread
For those of us who don't fit neatly into life's boxes, it can be a confusing journey as we waft around unsure how to express who we are and what we do. How can we make sense of our squiggly stories and integrate our multidimensional selves?
Grokkist Newsletter #38 (Scholé Supplement)
Bi-weekly newsletter for grokkists who insist on relating to the world with curiosity and care. Each edition contains the latest from the Grokkist Press, events and highlights from our community, and a care package of snackable outside links selected to nurture your curiosity.
Grokkist Newsletter #37 (Scholé Supplement)
Bi-weekly newsletter for grokkists who insist on relating to the world with curiosity and care. Each edition contains the latest from the Grokkist Press, events and highlights from our community, and a care package of snackable outside links selected to nurture your curiosity.
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?