A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! Lively, half hour episodes with Gretchen McCulloch & Lauren Gawne. "A fascinating listen that will change the way you see everyday communications." -New York Times "Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed

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Letters about the roles of play in human evolution, child development, culture, and daily living

An anthropological tour through the big answers to life's little questions

essays on truth, beauty, and goodness

Curated ideas to ignite your spirit. Plus, occasional behind-the-scenes of building sublime.app, a human creativity company.

We're writing about how to flex traditional UX/R methods for 0-1 product development and close the Product Market Fit gap.

We’re a nonprofit R&D lab that’s reimagining social media. Join us in building digital public spaces that connect people, embrace pluralism, and build community.

Psychologically sharp, evidence-based ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about purpose, curiosity, work, relationships, and the strange ways people behave.

The latest research, policy, and commentary about the online lives of boys and men. A project of the American Institute for Boys and Men.

Drawing on ecologies of creativity to ask: how might we engage in a practice of sensing differently? What forms of making and unmaking can open strange portals of perception that take us beyond the known?

Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.

A studied look at place in all its forms, from memory and belonging to the spaces artists build around their work. Future Nostalgica explores a central question: what becomes possible in a future where your art has a home?

Tailwind Radar provides the investment community with cutting-edge anthropological and ethnographic intelligence.

Why does it feel like everyone is more divided than ever? The science of identity offers a blueprint to how we can rebuild a shared sense of “us” in our workplaces, communities, and everyday lives.

Building a new vision for America's Exhausted Majority

Insights and experiments at the intersection of Generative AI and marketing.

Cultural Anthropologist, PhD, in Stockholm, Sweden. Uncover contradictions and gaps in the conventional wisdom

A newsletter about human behavior, conflict, journalism and change.

Democrats need to figure out some stuff before the next friggin nightmare comes to pass. The Key is about rethinking what politics is and doing politics differently.

Age/ncy is a collective inquiry into the experience of aging, exploring how we live, adapt, and find meaning through real stories and research-driven questions.

Culinary advice and hosting advice from best-selling author and James Beard Award winner, Tamar Adler

All My Dead & Living Things is a fifth-generation Hudsonian’s attempt to make sense of history, power, and belonging in a city that is still becoming.

Pursuing the mysterium tremendum et fascinans and writing at the intersection of philosophy, culture, art, technology, and religious wisdom.

Changing the way the American Left engages in the public debate.

Psychology, philosophy, jokes, and more

A think tank making sense of ourselves, media, and cultural change. Refusing easy answers, ZINE publishes original research and explanations of the emergent — read across +150 countries — and advises orgs on what’s next.

My personal Substack

The global weekly newsletter about cultural capitalism.

All about metamodernism!

This is a place to share my experiences as a person and an anthropologist, because we don't live our lives compartmentalizing the personal and professional. My purpose is to help people understand themselves and their fellow humans around the world.

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," - George Orwell.

A newsletter from Grant McCracken on culture, trends, blue oceans, black swans, early warnings, the future, and how to fix American culture.

I am the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. I writes, speak, and think about democracy, truth, justice and the human condition.

Recent stories to change minds

Exploring cities around the world, and the housing, climate, mobility, culture, and tech in them.

A newsletter at the intersection of brands and AI.

A newsletter about how to make life better for customers and create more successful organisations

Exploring the relationships between social justice discourse, inequality, and the rise of the symbolic professions.

Get weekly naming advice, resources, and insights on everything from the basics of naming to the business of naming. Created by naming expert Early Barrett of Wild Geese Studio.

Infrequent contemplations on creativity, culture and communications.

Foresight and soul alignment for leaders shaping what’s next

In New York City, it is neither the journey nor the destination. These are the stories stranded in subway tunnels, discarded in mounds of garbage, and stuck in endless traffic.

Things that make strategy bite

Unearthing the power of ancient wisdom.

Exploring the future of creativity, human connection and meaning in an algorithmic world.

A free weekly newsletter where Jon Haidt and his team make sense of how technology is reshaping society — and offer practical guidance on how we can respond.

A weekly-(ish) newsletter about decision making, risk, poker, cheating, paying attention, literature...and any other random topic that may interest me. No promises - and no topic off limits!

A newsletter about relevance in the convergence of brand, business, and technology