Quantifying the Gift
If commodities create boundaries, then gifts abolish them.
Lewis Hyde's seminal work, The Gift, is a map to get us back to what matters.
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- Aug 23, 2020
- 4 min
In search of the explicit
Learn to say what you mean and mean what you say. It will change your life.
- Nov 23, 2019
- 6 min
Life Lessons from Data Science
If your life were a statistical model, what would it look like?
- Aug 5, 2019
- 5 min
Senamile Masango – Not Your Everyday Nuclear Physicist
From teen mom to nuclear physicist – meet Senamile Masango, the first African woman to conduct an experiment at CERN.
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
We Need to Get Comfortable with (Real) Failure
The failure I’m talking about is the outright, embarrassing, you-haven’t-got-a-hope kind of failure.
- Jul 6, 2019
- 5 min
The Deeply Personal Politics of Reading
We’re happy to embrace one-night-stands of back-to-back episodes, but ask us to commit to just 300 pages? Who on earth has time for that?
- Jun 30, 2019
- 6 min
Tales from India – Rewriting the Story
Living in India for five months will transform the narrative you have about yourself and the world around you.
- Jun 23, 2019
- 7 min
This Podcast Made Me Question Everything
"The winners of our age must be challenged to do more good. But never, ever, tell them to do less harm." – Anand Giridharadas
- Jan 10, 2019
- 4 min
Bachata by the Han
Salsa dancing in South Korea has never been this magical.
- Oct 17, 2018
- 7 min
Notes from Seoul: The Cost of Being the Visitor
You can't ignore the effect you have on the places you visit. When is cultural immersion harmful?
- Aug 9, 2018
- 4 min
Farewell Japan
Two months of living in Tokyo
- Jul 1, 2018
- 4 min
A Difficult Conversation on Fear
Why do we avoid talking about certain kinds of fear? In South Africa, it's a conversation intermingled with race.
- Apr 30, 2018
- 6 min
Jerusalem: Ten Days in the Holy City
Explore ten days in the Holy City, filled with sounds, poetry and the contradictions of old-meets-new.
- Nov 27, 2017
- 9 min
On Storytelling, Ancestors and Algorithms - A Conversation with Ernesto Reyes
Discover the power of storytelling and the narratives that make up our world in this exclusive interview with Ernesto Reyes.
- Oct 16, 2017
- 3 min
Notes from SF: the Emergence of Beauty
Beauty keeps us sane. When the world is a ceaseless rush of competing claims on our attention, art reminds us of what it means to be human.
- Aug 20, 2017
- 6 min
Beyond the Rhetoric of Transformation
Transformation, even in political terms, is a matter of mind and spirit.
- Jul 14, 2017
- 8 min
Overdue Ramblings on God
Why do we struggle to include spirituality in everyday conversations? The question is not whether God exists, but what God is like.
- May 4, 2017
- 7 min
Homo Deus
A book review of Yuval Noah Harari's dazzling prediction of the future.
- Mar 26, 2017
- 5 min
Striving and Being: The Road Less Travelled
How helpful are self-help "gurus"?
- Mar 21, 2017
- 6 min
A Man of Good Hope
Follow the story of one man, Asad, who joins thousands of Somali migrants in their diaspora to the south in search of a better life.
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