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.
💡 Grokkist Lore
Ideas that explain and explore the practice of grokkistry.
7 posts
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?
Release your soul's pent-up steam
In this mini video essay, discover the whispered wisdom of Rotorua's geothermal clefts, whose hidden forces urge us to embrace our inner turmoil as a crucible for transformative creativity.
Curiosity and care: the essence of being a grokkist
A deeply reflective exploration of how an insistence on curiosity and care can transform our engagement with the world by re-enchanting our attention, deepening human connection, and challenging the transactional nature of modern society.
The Art of Ambivalence: Finding Strength in Contradiction
How embracing ambivalence can lead to strength in contradiction and growth as a grokkist.
Deschooling the mind
If we want to avoid letting school interfere with education – that is, if we want to avoid confusing how we do learning with what it's for – we will first need to deschool our minds. This is easier said than done.
What's at stake in education
Over the next decade, long-overdue digital transformation means that tech money and the aims, aspirations and assumptions that come with it are likely to fundamentally reshape what education looks like. Software eats the world and education is next on the menu.