The Great Simplification
Nate Hagens, Charles Eisenstein, Ed Conway, Greg ElliottThe Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment.
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Radical Simplicity: The Opportunities of a World in Collapse
For years, the climate movement ran on the promise that, if we all rally hard enough, we could have it all: continue with our current system and save the planet. Yet the events of the past few decades have shown that this isn’t quite the ca...
[Essay] An Antidote to Despair: What Dogs Reveal About the Metacrisis
This essay is adapted from the Frankly episode posted on August 21st, 2026 titled, “An Antidote to Despair: What Dogs Reveal About the Metacrisis.”
My dog, Murphy
Good morning – I have an upcoming Frankly on the best and worst inve...
The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind
This week’s Frankly begins with a deceptively simple question I was asked in conversation: what would change my mind about The Great Simplification thesis? What evidence would actually cause me to reassess my view that human civilization is...
“Don’t Build Gods”: One AI Risk to Rule Them All
The world’s leading AI companies tell us that superintelligence has a strong chance of leading to human extinction, while also promising that they will be able to control it, offering unlimited power to the one who does it first. So far the...
[Essay] Who Broke the World? The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us
This essay is adapted from the Frankly episode posted on August 14th, 2026, titled “Who Broke the World? The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us.”
The lens(es) we use alter who we might blame.
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