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Culture, Philosophy & Aliveness

Reimagining the futures of culture, learning and meaning - for those willing to sit with paradox instead of defaulting to simple answers.


 ·  7 min read

What Work is Worthy of Us?

On interiority, work, and what makes us irreplaceably human

On interiority, the meaning of work in the age of AI, sensuality as resistance, and recovering the Great Work - as part of a wider, magnificent web of life.

  • Interiority
  • Work
  • Aliveness
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 ·  6 min read

A philosophy that is erotic, juicy and alive

Out of the Palace of Mind into the dark wet soil

On reimagining philosophy as living, sensuous, embodied. A meditation on muses, museions, and the love of wisdom.

  • Philosophy
  • Embodiment
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 ·  6 min read

Reweirding: How Our Strangeness Serves The Whole

The forgotten power of weird

Weirdness was once a word for fate. Maybe it still is. An invitation to reclaim our uniqueness as service to the whole.

  • Authenticity
  • Belonging
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 ·  8 min read

We Were Never Meant to Grieve Alone

Rituals of sorrow, rivers of joy and the alchemical work of grief

Grief is a catalyst for joy and radical vitality. We grieve more than lives lost - we grieve relationships, ecologies, parts of ourselves.

  • Grief
  • Ritual
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 ·  5 min read

What I Want You to Know About Being Alive

A Letter to my Godson

A letter to my godson Hermès - fresh insights gathered from my own experience, reminders that sustained me in moments of confusion.

  • Presence
  • Time
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 ·  3 min read

Dancing with Spaciousness

Of Nomads, Sabbaticals and Time out of Time

After eight years at Google, a break that tastes like possibility - on the malleability of time and the freedom in remembering we have a choice.

  • Time
  • Presence
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