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Dorie Clark – The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world

Personal goals need a long-term strategy too. Dorie Clark offers concrete practices to sharpen strategic thinking and incorporate a long-term perspective within a personal time scale. By reorienting ourselves to focus on the big picture, and using the power of small but persistent changes over time, Clark shows how long-term thinking can be applied to […]

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Alex Ebert & Daniel Thorson – Shadows of Western Spirituality

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Alex is the lead of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Daniel is the Head of Curriculum at the Monastic Academy in Vermont. I got these two together to jam on the dark side of modern spirituality, and more specifically, the shadows behind mindfulness, meditation and eastern spirituality practices in the west. It is an

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Trauma to transcendence – Using life’s wounds to grow

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In this episode of the Shrink and the Pundit, Dr. Keith Witt and I discuss a powerful realization emerging at the leading edge of culture regarding the role of trauma in our lives. Dr. Keith is writing a book on the subject and has mined various psychotherapeutic modalities to create an integral approach to using

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Douglas Rushkoff “There's No Such Thing as Content” – Trend Day Keynote Preview

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Here’s an excerpt from a keynote talk Rushkoff delivered at Trend Day 2002, an annual conference presented by Der Spiegel. Rushkoff discusses how the advent of interactivity has rendered the main means of communication obsolete and why corporations feel threatened by people creating and enjoying their own content. 🌍 Become a contributing supporter for as

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Gender Fluidity: Fruitful and Fanatic

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The sexual evolution continues! This week I look at the controversy raging over the dramatic emergence of transsexual identity and gender fluidity, particularly among young people. I place it in the context of the stage transformations of sex and gender through history, and even get a little personal. I hope you enjoy the episode! –

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Fuck Finding Your Passion

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This is a recording from an interview I did with Eliot Marshall, host of The Gospel of Fire Podcast. It was super fun to be on his show and we talked about many things, but mainly how I think ‘find your passion and follow it’ is bad advice. This leads us to the purpose of

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Mark Stahlman

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President of the Center for the Study for Digital Life Mark Stahlman explains East, West, and Digital, the three spheres he believes are shaping the future of civilization, and how understanding the way they interact can help us strategize a way forward for humans. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why he’s not an optimist

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John Markoff – Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

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Join us for an illuminating evening with journalist John Markoff in conversation with Long Now’s Co-founder Stewart Brand and Executive Director Alexander Rose around Markoff’s new biography of Brand. Journalist John Markoff writes about technology, society and the key figures who shaped Silicon Valley and the personal computer revolution. Along the way, his stories and

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Emergence Appears as Regression and Decadence – The developmental delusion we all share

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Vladimir Putin’s ill-conceived war on Ukraine reveals a hidden aspect of consciousness evolution: newly emerging stages are seen by existing stages as a regression. Putin the autocrat saw democracies as weak and depleted. So did Hitler and the Japanese before World War II. It’s an old pattern that we can trace back to the warriors

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