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A Crash Course in Personal Ruggedization
Listen now | Announcing my new class, beginning September 8th.
Alex Steffen
14 hr ago
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Let Slip the Dogs of Planetary Realism
Listen now (15 min) | Climate is not an issue, but an era — one whose central conflict is speed. Until we center the Politics of Tempo, useful…
Alex Steffen
Jul 29
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Optimism vs. the Apocalypse
Listen now (16 min) | There's a future to be won. Understanding the scale of our achievable successes is the key to winning it.
Alex Steffen
Jul 27
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The New Ruggedization Calculus: Build or Burn.
Listen now (23 min) | The Brittleness Bubble is beginning to burst, and it's revealing some rough truths about the choices in front of us.
Alex Steffen
Jul 21
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Collective agreement on climate strategy is no longer the priority.
Listen now (15 min) | Free you mind, and your ass will follow: climate action edition.
Alex Steffen
Jul 20
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The Politics of a New Era
Listen now (18 min) | Conflicts over who can act and how fast are defining the political landscape ahead of us.
Alex Steffen
Jul 14
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The right link.
The first step is thinking more strategically about the planetary crisis is, apparently, sending out the correct URL.
Alex Steffen
Jun 26
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The right link.
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Out there in the foggy, uncertain landscape.
Listen now (32 min) | It's time for braver and more innovative conversations about what it means to live in the era of planetary crisis.
Alex Steffen
Jun 24
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Tempo, Timing, and the Translucence of the Future
Foresighted strategy in the real world, which is to say a weird world full of discontinuity, deception, and opaque transformations.
Alex Steffen
Jun 22
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Old thinking will break your brain.
Why updating the way we look at the world is so critical now, and so hard, and how we can get better at doing it.
Alex Steffen
May 27
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Foresight and strategy in upheaval
Listen now (21 min) | Conflict is not the boundary of possibility but the window into opportunity
Alex Steffen
Apr 18
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Smart Strategies for Living in a Planetary Crisis
Announcing a pair of classes on learning how to thrive in an all-encompassing discontinuity.
Alex Steffen
Mar 28
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