Taking my own advice
A video letter on showing up unpolished, the new Crossroads, and two books being made in company.
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All the help we can get
A note on asking, the structures we build instead, and what care looks like when it's stored.
Who sets the table
A note on conviviality, the two doors of dependency, and why the journey has to pay for itself.
Pushing the Boat Out
A note on launches, early wobbles, and finding out how tall people are.
The Speed of Trust
A note on the trouble with getting bigger, letting people see the seams, and finding each other in the flesh.
Gathering Ourselves
A note on coherence, the breathing of seasons, and letting energy flow.
Making Wisdom Easier to Find
A note on legibility, bookshops, maps, and helping people know what they know.
A Landscape Begins to Form
A dispatch from an ecosystem becoming stranger, richer, and more alive.
Grokkist Newsletter #90
A steady rhythm of curiosity and care, delivered every two weeks.
Surprise meWild Margin
🗞️ 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
GroundedSoma Isles
🎨 Sculpting with Tree Sap and Time
A 15-minute documentary following Kyoto artist Mine Tanigawa as she creates sculptures from urushi lacquer, a material used in Japan for over 7,000 years. Less a 'making of' than a portrait of attention: raw tree sap transformed through layer upon layer of colour, polishing and curing, eac
GroundedEntangled Vale
👁️ Iris Murdoch and Love as a Way of Seeing
Matthew Crawford revisits Iris Murdoch as a philosopher pushing back against thin, hyper-rational models of human life. For Murdoch, morality isn't mainly abstract reasoning but attention — the difficult practice of seeing the world, other people and oneself more clearly. Her radical claim