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Reality Eats Culture For Breakfast: AI, Existential Risk and Ethical Tech
Why calls for ethical technology are missing something crucial
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The Ego Doesn't Die: Why Western spirituality is so confused, and what to do about it
Ego-death and the science of transformation
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Broken Men in a Broken World: The Last of Us, God of War and The Banshees of Inisherin
What our most popular stories about men tell us about modern masculinity
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Castrated Utopias: What Barbie and Oppenheimer reveal about our sexual politics
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The Truth About Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, Rachel Yehuda and George Bonanno
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Divisive Dialogues: What I learned asking 200 people to disagree in public
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Broken Men in a Broken World: The Last of Us, God of War and The Banshees of Inisherin
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The Ego Doesn't Die: Why Western spirituality is so confused, and what to do about it
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Why We Pray: Israel, Gaza and Complexity Tolerance
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The Truth About Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk, Rachel Yehuda and George Bonanno
How the mainstreaming of trauma is changing culture
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Protopia and The Future of Heterodoxy
Why difficult conversations need to stay difficult
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Three Sensemaking Secrets: Subscriber Special
The hidden roots of Western philosophy, Pineapple Pizza and more
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Nazi Elves and Cockney Orcs: The Rings of Power, Class and Royalty
How Amazon's new series gives us a new lens on the culture wars
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The Sensemaking Companion - Section I
First Person Sensemaking
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NonOrdinary Impact: Moving from Vision to Action
Announcing NonOrdinary Impact, a new course I’ve developed with Trish Blain. Also, thanks to everyone who came to our first community call to share…
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Community Sensemaking Session
Hi everyone, Our first quarterly community sensemaking session will be on Wednesday, April 24th at 7pm London time / 2pm New York / 11am Los Angeles…
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