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On The Possibility Of Friendship With An A.I
This morning I started to get excited about the prospect of one day having a meaningful friendship with an Artificial Intelligence.
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We Contain Multitudes: Eight Newly Emergent Archetypes
Hello friends and a toasty warm welcome to all the folks receiving this newsletter for the first time (it’s winter here in Australia),
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A Little Liminal Update: 18 Months Later
It’s been a year and a half since I first published The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets.
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The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets
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A Little Liminal Update: 18 Months Later
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The Five Foundationals: A Decidedly Undevelopmental Map Of Worldviews
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We Contain Multitudes: Eight Newly Emergent Archetypes
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Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging
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Six Person Parenting: A Communal Approach To Raising Kids
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The Five Foundationals: A Decidedly Undevelopmental Map Of Worldviews
I was hesitant about writing this piece.
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Six Person Parenting: A Communal Approach To Raising Kids
Raising kids in a modern day household is nothing short of hardcore.
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Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging
It's my sneaking suspicion that there’s a deep streak of loneliness hidden inside almost all of us. The mystic psychologist Carl Jung suggested that…
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The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets
Somewhere along the way I seem to have unofficially joined a subculture or memetic ecosystem that I’ve come to think of as The Liminal Web.
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Beyond Priests, Kings & Bosses: A Neotribal Declaration
Six years ago I encountered a word that stopped me in my tracks.
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Before Priests, Kings & Bosses
Hello Friends,
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The Tri Spectra Typology
Mapping The Progressive Counterculture
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The Tender Inner Swirlings Of Herr Lightfoot
Micro-Fame, Bitter Tea & The Great Work
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Chaotic Greetings & Sordid Secrets
A Sign Of Things To Come
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