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Tár: Death of the Sun God
Listen now (163 min) | One fan's commentary on the film.
Nick Barr
Mar 8
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October 2022
Everything but the thing itself
This post is in dialog with Toby Shorin’s Life After Lifestyle, which I highly recommend you go read. I. The product withdraws Here’s a vivid memory…
Nick Barr
Oct 18, 2022
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September 2022
Caring for the hyperobject
In The Ecological Thought (2010), Tim Morton introduced the idea of the hyperobject, a higher-dimension being that shows up in our world in unsettling…
Nick Barr
Sep 26, 2022
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Being care
Penelope turns two in December. Whenever we go for a walk, there are three things she loves to point out: Doggy! Kids! Baby! She particularly loves…
Nick Barr
Sep 21, 2022
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November 2021
Imagining the first network for social good
(originally posted to the Hello World Notion) I think we can safely say these 2 things about Gen Z: Gen Z is deeply involved with social problems …
Nick Barr
Nov 23, 2021
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Same thinking
Albert Einstein: We cannot solve problems with the same thinking that we used to create them. Anecdotally this seems true of the wicked problems we face…
Nick Barr
Nov 4, 2021
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October 2021
The Power of Cards – #2 ft. Azlen Elza
Listen now (55 min) | Video: Episode highlights: Designing in nouns and verbs Inside-out vs outside-in design Alien technologies Cards as supernouns…
Nick Barr
Oct 11, 2021
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September 2021
Intuitions about infinity
The idea of infinity is inextricable from the concept of countability. In other words: there is no notion of the sublime, the cosmos, etc. without…
Nick Barr
Sep 29, 2021
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Would retroactive public goods funding fix non-profits?
Having started both for-profit and non-profit ventures, I’ve found that the grass is always greener: for-profits have beautiful machinery for a busted…
Nick Barr
Sep 1, 2021
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August 2021
The Power of Cards – #1 ft. David Cole
Listen now (69 min) | Video here: Episode highlights: Magic the Gathering: cards that left an impression Can managers use cards to understand and be…
Nick Barr
Aug 5, 2021
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July 2021
Whose passions belong in the passion economy?
A new category of work is emerging. It’s called the passion economy, and it’s built on the idea that you can turn your interests and passions into a…
Jul 12, 2021
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January 2021
Diego's shipwreck
Every few months I’d meet Diego at the Palo Alto train station and we’d go for a walk, get some dinner, catch up. Diego was impossible to extract from…
Nick Barr
Jan 1, 2021
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