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.
Nathan Dufour Oglesby
Nathan is a poet, producer and professor who has built a distinctively didactic approach to hip-hop, using the form to explore concepts drawn from philosophy, history and the physical sciences.
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If we're all living in a Simulation, does that change anything?
If everything you thought was real turned out to be in some way unreal, would it change the way you lived your life? A video and essay exploring Simulation Ecology and the ethics of Hyperreality.
Old School School
Redefine School: not a tool of the state, but a movement that arises from those who create. Whose mode of exchange isn’t monetary wealth, but Relationship and Wisdom as an end in itself.
Obsession & Process: How Philosophy Helps Me Deal with OCD
This essay chronicles my experience with OCD through a philosophical lens, and examines how “Process Philosophy” may offer a means of thinking one’s way out of overthinking.
Reflections on Educational Content Creation
Educate with the baggage of the institutional framework, or with the baggage of the algorithm? The stuffy mansion, or the Wild West? How to choose; how to escape from the double-bind?
Intro to Philosophy for Ecological Action – a course by Nathan Dufour
Join us in bridging the gap between philosophy and action to address the ecological crisis.