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Happy Everything!

Hiking Guide: Three awesome California jaunts

Some contemporary memes'n'things that sum our times

Community thread: What's your best Christmas gift idea?

People wasting away in paradise?

30,000-foot questions to shake up the world

Sunday Reads (revisited): ChatGPT panic, Peter Thiel apocalypse posturing and Taylor-Travis cuteness

Community chat: Ozempic b*tches and "male drift"

Hiking Guide: Two "destination" hikes

Q: How should I do a massive clean-out (to "Kondo" or to "Wilson")?

I'm drawing on Keats' "negative capability" thesis to cope with the Middle East crisis

Q: My climate activist son needs your help

Children predicting the apocalypse, Australian reality TV grimness + pro-Palestine censorship

Hiking Guide: A few great Australian trails

Sensemaking this invite that Russell Brand just sent to me

Meg Wheatley on civilisational collapse: how long do we have, how to live in it

How can I keep the Wild podcast going?

Q: How do you make your podcast?

"Picking a side" in the Middle East plays into the hands of the "enemy"

Hiking Guide: My 3 favourite UK trails

Bonus: I talk "Sensemaking in the Metacrisis" with Berry Liberman

Another post about Hashimoto's disease (#2)

Q: What do you think of marriage?

Australia-bound, Israel, the meaning of No and ...all of it

Q: Sarah, why did you leave Australia?

A post about Hashimoto's disease #1

DISCUSS: What if there isn't enough energy on Earth to get Elon to Mars? (+ other BIG questions for Nate Hagens)

Book diary: Go right!

It's been two years here together on Substack...

Welcome to This One Wild and Precious Life

Allow the tattered shards of happiness

Invite your friends to read This is Precious

What I learned about the collapse of the world at Stockholm Impact Week

Don't just vote YES, Voice up!

Book diary: dance mania, sex and smoking

Interesting thing noted: the status quo having reckonings and identity crises

Book diary: questions for the rich

Why do people drink alcohol?

Book diary: A chapter on "ambiguous loss"

Hiking Guide: My best adventures in Europe

A reality check on Australian wages

My writing set-up

Announcing: The first "chapter" of my book

Public figure pile-ons...can we be real about our role in them?

Q: How much do you censor your writing?

What if women were in charge?

Hello from the "prettiest village in France"

A very innocuous hiking update

We must learn how to die...especially now

Barbie + campervan adventure

Want to imagine Our Better Future with me, the one we'd choose after the apocolapse?

UK TOUR DATES: I'm coming to London, let's meet!

I went to see Oppenheimer and all I thought about were the AI bros

Other people are hard when you have anxiety

Nature fights back. And wins.

I honour my friend Tim

How to meet strangers in big cities (or anywhere)

What my book agent and literary friends are reading

How Balzac made me feel joyous (about being a neurotic + a high-chaser)

Q: How do you balance illness + living fully?

Plastic is the new coal

May we apprentice ourselves to the curve of our own disappearance

Loss

Sunday Things #24

Hello! Ask Me Anything.

This is what bipolar looks like

British Wild and Precious is here!

AC Grayling + me in Paris talking how to write a book

Tyson Yunkaporta: Romance destroys exceptional women

Sunday things #23

It has been suggested I explain this double denim vision of chaos

Let everything happen to you

Writing diary: in which I am successfully not writing in Paris

An insomniac's perspective...

Sunday Things #22

Writing diary: Meet a Catalan vagabond!

A short list of things we have not thought through

Sunday Things #21

Writing diary: My first writer's retreat. And things are unknowing.

I'm a spinster! I spin well!

Sunday Things #18

Why we should NOT have a pause on AI

Say it isn’t so: Hipster Eugenics

Sunday Things #17

The dumb stuff I packed

A heterodox, left-critical commentariat listicle for you

Sunday Things #18

Wild Thing: "We are all actors."

One must have chaos in oneself

Sunday things #17

The art of meeting strangers in strange lands

Ya'll wannaa quit yo vent vomit

Sunday things #16

My Wild guest Bo Seo asks ME about how I start with ideas

The Daily Mail does death by thousands of misinformation cuts

My collection of quotes for understanding and adoring life

Sunday Things #15

About the other night...

I'm announcing: I Quit Gas!

Reminder: We're meeting tonight 🧚🏻‍♀️

Sunday Things #14

Some intimate "How do you spend your Sunday" Qs with cyberpunk OG 😳 Douglas Rushkoff

Meet the renegade taking on Big Social Media... with kindness

Sunday Things #13

Let's meet! You are cordially invited to a wine and deep chats hang

Writing my next book: wanna join me in the process?

Sunday things #12

Let's discuss the TikTok anti-sleepover brouhaha

It's IWD: what an "anti-rivalrous" world could look like

Sunday Things #10

Bonus Podcast: Heterodox Helen Lewis' brilliant recommended reads + listens

The gender-y culture war is hard to wade into. Let's do it.

Sunday Things #9

The tale of the Lou Douillon cup I bought in Paris

Be available for life to happen to you

Sunday Things #8

I found Orly's love note in a cave; then he found me

Woke('s) on a rope?

Sunday Reads #7

Let's talk this new flavour of burnout: Follow Up Flatlining

I am the Chaos Police and I'm coming to ignore you

5 Sunday Things #6

The ability to bear noise is the inverse measure of intelligence…

The magical climate thinking of an NRMA billboard

What we need to learn from Andrew Tate fans

Eat the rich? I watched White Lotus + Triangle of Sadness over the break