Grokkist Newsletter #66
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Make senseMaker's Forge
🏞️ Keeping Wild Places Wild
It turns out the wild doesn't always stay wild on its own. From Colorado's alpine trails to Arches National Park, public lands are carefully curated by rangers and researchers balancing access with impact. This piece explores the science of recreation management — designing better systems
Move meMaker's Forge
☄️ Meteor
Atefeh Khademolreza's Meteor is a dreamlike, non-linear tribute to grief, friendship and resistance within Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement. Told through a collage of surreal visuals, intimate narration, archival footage and glowing animation, it channels personal mourning into a pol
Surprise meEntangled Vale
👜 A Unified Theory of the Handbag
Audrey Wollen reimagines human evolution through the humble act of carrying. What if the first tool wasn't a weapon but a bag — to hold babies, berries and the beginnings of culture? Drawing on Elizabeth Fisher's 'Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution' and Ursula Le Guin's echo of it, Wollen sti
ImagineHearthlands
🛼 The Inner Peace Police
'You've been caught feeding your fears and starving yourself of joy. I'm issuing you with a citation for chronic self-doubt.' Endangerhood patrols the streets on roller skates in a pink suit and disco-ball helmet, pulling doomscrollers over for crimes against their own wellbeing. It's absu
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ImagineMaker's Forge
🧺 My Beautiful Tiny Laundrette
Mozu Studios, the Japanese miniature-art studio run by Kiyotaka Mizukoshi, crafts tiny rooms packed with absurdly meticulous detail. You need only thirty seconds to be transported into their pocket-sized laundromat — glowing filament bulb, rotating machines, delicate signage, baskets of te
Move meSoma Isles
🐝 Telling the Bees
Emily Polk traces the ancient practice of 'telling the bees' when someone dies — a ritual some 600 years old, born of the belief that bees carry messages between the living and the dead (when Elizabeth II died, the royal beekeeper informed the palace hives). She weaves her own grief into a
Make senseHearthlands
🎧 Dissecting Kendrick's 'Die Hard'
Dissect is a music podcast for people who like to listen with their whole brain on. Each season, host Cole Cuchna takes apart a single album, song by song, line by line, with forensic care — a masterclass in music appreciation as critical reflection. This episode on Kendrick Lamar's 'Die H
Make senseEntangled Vale
🦓 Patient Capital & Zebra Companies
As more founders and funders seek alternatives to extractive growth, a new financial vocabulary is emerging — one that prioritises sustainability, shared prosperity and long-term impact over rapid exits. This is the world of patient capital and 'zebra companies' (profitable and purpose-dri
WonderEntangled Vale
📖 WikiTok
WikiTok is a TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles — each swipe reveals a new one, complete with images and excerpts, inviting you into topics you'd never have sought out. A minimalist, mobile-friendly web app that turns idle scrolling into an educational journey w
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