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  1. The New Institute Closes its Doors
  2. Is Enlightenment Possible
  3. Mindfulness Primer
  4. 3P's of of purpose, presence and practice are key to second renaissance and addressing metacrisis
  5. A New Tool to Map Major Worldviews
  6. A Prayer for Wisdom in a Time of Unravelling
  7. AI-guided daily planning — the progressive-narrowing experiment
  8. An introduction to a Politics of Being
  9. Awakening Society
  10. Awareness is the greatest agent for change?
  11. Concrete advice to my younger self about how to live (rough draft)
  12. Darzi report on NHS: Notes and Commentary
  13. Darzi report on the NHS flags mental health epidemic
  14. Designing Beautiful Websites with AI
  15. End Times
  16. Frank Chimero Beyond the Machine
  17. Getting ready for El Niño
  18. Hard thing about hard things re building a wiser world
  19. How Much is Enough
  20. If politicians, civil service and media are going downhill why is that?
  21. Isn't it all going to be fine? A flowchart to map the different ways people respond to major social problems / crises
  22. Joe Brewer 3 part series on why he stopped working on applied cultural evolution
  23. Making peace with the 60s
  24. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  25. On value misalignment, ecological crisis and the need for wisdom (Wisdom, Value and Choice Part I)
  26. Open-mindedness and Non-attachment to Views
  27. Pockets of a Second Renaissance: a Spectrum
  28. Primacy of Being
  29. Public Goods Problems with Web3 and ReFi
  30. Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
  31. Seeing the difference between paradigms: using the built environment
  32. So you want to create social infrastructure to rebuild the better future world when this one breaks down ...
  33. Some nice data tracing the rise of woke-ness and postmodern values
  34. The Climate vs Louis Vuitton
  35. The Empty Mirror by Janwillem van de Wetering
  36. The Google Tax
  37. The Greening of America by Charles Reich
  38. The New Culturology and Why It's a Big Deal
  39. Things are a bit f'd personally and collectively. Let's do something about that.
  40. Trump, Neo-fascism and the Crisis of Modernity
  41. Truth is a mountain with no top
  42. Tyson Yunkaporta's yarn about Prussian education & the "descent of the west"
  43. Werner Erhard's Enlightenment
  44. What does adequate collective sensemaking require?
  45. What is valueception? And how does it contrast with what we normally mean by value?
  46. What job(s) have you done done in your life that most nourished your aspiration and joy?
  47. What Lightcone Infrastructure's financial crunch tells us about the effective altruism community's ecosystem and funding
  48. Why Enlightenment Alone Won’t Save Us (and that's ok)
  49. Wisdom: a practical capacity to choose a good path
  50. Worker Coops Strengths and Weaknesses
  51. Yogins of Ladakh