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Make senseWild Margin
Writer, activist and comedian Baratunde Thurston reimagines the word 'citizen' as a verb, bringing new perspectives and practices from people working to make us all more hopeful, connected, and moved to act in ways that leverage our collective power. Why not start with the episode on craft
ImagineMaker's Forge
Something fun and joyful. Leonhard Paul of Mnozil Brass — an absurdist Austrian brass band and performance ensemble — maintains a completely deadpan expression while somehow playing two trombones and two trumpets from a sitting position. I saw Mnozil Brass live once in Melbourne years ago.
Make senseSoma Isles
Wikiloc is a place to discover and share the best outdoor trails for hiking, cycling and dozens of other activities — a database of over 45 million routes contributed by some 13 million members. There's an app for making lists, navigating with offline maps, sharing with friends, and showin
Make senseEntangled Vale
Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector: enter a URL and it scans for ad trackers, third-party cookies, session-monitoring scripts, and the dreaded Facebook Pixel, then reports back. A scan of one major news site turned up a whopping 46 ad trackers and 102 third-party cookies.
I'm now back in Auckland after a month in New York working on Grokkist stuff alongside Nathan. It was great to meet others from
Less aloneUnfolding Realm
A post for people who like to invent (or add to their collection of) names for the social experiences and phenomena we observe around us. I've adopted 'elastic mood' from this collection — 'when a mood is so overwhelming you mistake the intensity of it for the longevity of it.' Sometimes w
Make senseMaker's Forge
Excitable music-theory YouTuber Charles Cornell breaks down the insanely complicated grooves and odd meter of the iconic 1977 Sesame Street song, 'Twelve.' A warm nostalgia bath that's also, somehow, an education in odd time signatures.
Make senseHearthlands
'When does one person's desire to document their life interfere with another's preference for privacy? How does one person pulling out their phone impact another guest's experience of the gathering itself?' Priya Parker is known for her wisdom on the art of organising social gatherings. He
Surprise meHearthlands
A delightful extended metaphor for how to encounter other people. We're not just layers of experience that can be peeled away one at a time, like onions. Some parts of us are brittle and flaky when you try to pull them apart — experiences that are folded over each other, flattened out, and
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Less aloneUnfolding Realm
A raw, rambling and intelligent personal reflection on earnestness — what I would call sincerity. 'A friend once told me that one of the best things I did for him was just ramble excitedly about life when we met for coffee while he was feeling depressed; he found my enthusiasm infectious.
Make senseUnfolding Realm
It's communication (isn't it always?). In particular, the kind of project failure that is standard in organisations running on a constipated emotional culture of fear and suppression — where everyone is rationally protecting their own position and not voicing what's really on their mind. A