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Tár: Death of the Sun GodListen now (163 min) | One fan's commentary on the film.
Nick Barr

October 2022

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

September 2022

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
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

November 2021

(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
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
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October 2021

The Power of Cards – #2 ft. Azlen ElzaListen now (55 min) | Video: Episode highlights: Designing in nouns and verbs Inside-out vs outside-in design Alien technologies Cards as supernouns…
Nick Barr

September 2021

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
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

August 2021

The Power of Cards – #1 ft. David ColeListen 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

July 2021

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…

January 2021

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
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