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This episode features a conversation between Doug Belshaw and Laura Hilliger, with the key points of discussion being Laura’s anger over a minor incident (hence the episode title), poetry, yoga, electric scooters, book recommendations, and ‘debogging yourself’.

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Links and notes:
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/04/12/tearing-your-anger.html
Wislawa Szymborska
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/13/a-disgruntled-federal-employees-1980s-desk-calendar
https://kottke.org/23/03/notes-art
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/04/06/debogging-yourself.html
https://buster.wiki/blog/2013/08-24-live-like-a-hydra/
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/04/25/optimising-for-the.html
https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/04/21/336-where-interests-take-you/
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/04/25/book-reading-and.html
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/04/24/realtime-deepfake-videos.html
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2024/04/10/a-pharmacology-of.html
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/

Ramble chat season :) In this episode Doug and Laura discuss corporatizing learning and credentialing, volunteerism and the fact that all the answers are already out there.

Laura and Doug speak with the author of Radical Technologies: The design of everyday life, Adam Greenfield. A Verso author, Adam has a new book coming out called Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World on Fire

Adam Greenfield: https://speedbird.wordpress.com/
Favourite book: Stephen Mitchell translation of Tao Te Ching: https://stephenmitchellbooks.com/translations-adaptations/tao-te-ching/

Lifehouses - https://speedbird.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/the-lifehouse-distributed-community-support-centers-for-the-long-emergency/
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/from-churches-to-lifehouses
Climate change and doomerism - https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/111942463874510426
Bruce Sterling - "Viridian Green" thinking/design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viridian_design_movement
Arcosanti - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
AI and Object Horror - https://mastodon.social/@apike/111939446130457407
AI and pattern recognition - https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/111952644538668726

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In this episode, Laura and Doug lament the crashing of their Etherpad server and chat about tools they use for knowledge management. Support the Tao of WAO at https://opencollective.com/weareopen

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