Editorial Philosophy

From Jeanne: Well this short episode (10 mins) was certainly music to my hear!! (yes I know we're meant to share things that make us Think Again here,...

From Jeanne: I really enjoyed this podcast. It gave me a few interesting things to reconsider. For starters, the fact that when research is done to as...

From Leah: This is another piece that I read a few weeks ago and keep returning to. It is quite a short article, but a meaningful one. The concept sou...

From Anne: Hello from New York, everyone, far and wide :) I come back regularly to this essay to ground me in what matters. Written as a graduation sp...

From Jeanne: I really enjoyed this podcast because it made me consider something I had never thought about before!! I found Crockford fascinating, par...

From Anita: This UK discussion about the broken social contract and inter-generational stress, really got me thinking about how we fix this. I’m Gen X...

From Barry: After publicly making some egregious errors on social media, and then doubling down, I decided that I needed to do something to improve my...

From Shury: On the 4th of July, its 250th birthday, America gave every child a stake in its own economy. Washington seeded it; the money that followed...

From Frances: I like the way the article starts with an intriguing and rather uncomfortable real life story about an academic and later activist, from...

From Sas: I found this podcast captivating and quite worrying. It is an interview with Daniel Kokotajlo, an American philosopher who worked at OpenAI....

From Ricky's: First contact by Ursula Le Guin made me rethink the psychology of a chance meeting between completely alien species in a situation of un...

This conversation starter was inspired by Longevity Threatens the Future, a talk by Lucinda Holdforth at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and the thesi...

From Sushil: This week I read this brilliant essay on how Cierco's life teaches us to become better thinkers and make better decisions. In brief, the ...

From John: Excellent tech communicator breaking down the “Hugging Face” incident. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface **** Remember, you do...

From Tom: Direct, nerdy, the opposite of what everyone says on procrastination. Punches are not pulled. https://pointingatthings.substack.com/p/pro...

From Jeanne: I just found these notes I took while listening to an interview with French philosopher Michel Onfray and loved rereading them. I thought...

From Jeanne: I discovered this wonderful philosopher Hanno Sauer's recently, at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. I really enjoyed his talk "After Equa...

From Benjamin: The Hadzabe Tribe in Tanzania is a completely Egalitarian society and I think that's wild. There are so many strange emergent behaviour...

From Diana: This video created a lot of discussion between us. For my partner, Mike, it was validating and reassuring. He felt like someone was finall...

This conversation starter was inspired by Aftab Malik's Rethinking Islam talk at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2026, in Sydney. This was one of the ...