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I wanted to dig back into the work of Ken Wilber in today’s newsletter, specifically the way he breaks down our culture into transcenders vs. descenders in a way that is deeply clarifying—in his camp, we must be both in order to actually embody nonduality. In my first post about A Brief History of Everything, I explored some of the key themes from his work a few weeks ago: holons (the idea that everything is both complete in of itself and part of something else); holarchies (holons are structured on an evolutionary chain that becomes more densely conscious as it evolves, i.

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This newsletter sponsored by Citizens Fuel Co., a family-owned Asheville company. Dear loyal readers, Before we get to some of what’s going around, I just want to once again express my sincere gratitude for your continued support and readership. Y’all are the best. I wouldn’t be here without you. I wouldn’t be doing this without you. This year marks the 19th year of the Ashevegas website, and year 4 of this newsletter.

Ashley Mayer is the cofounder and GP of Coalition Operators, where she and her partners back early stage founders. She began her career at enterprise software company Box, where she led global communications from a 50-person startup through IPO. She then moved to Social Capital, where she led all things marketing and communications for three years, helping to launch new capital products and working with founders spanning healthcare, aerospace, climate, fintech, enterprise and education.

Embedded is your essential guide to what’s good on the internet, written by Kate Lindsay and edited by Nick Catucci. Get you an interview that can do both (touch on the experience of marginalized identities online and the James Potter/Regulus Black fandom) —Kate Despite what TikTok may tell you, being a main character isn’t always a good thing—especially on Twitter. If you’re Twitter’s character of the day, you’re at the center of a discourse so explosive that it takes over your entire feed.

I call it a bouzouki, actually, but it really could be called any number of things: a mandocello, a mandola, a tenor bouzouki/mandola/mandocello. I bought an irish bouzouki in 2005ish when I wanted to try my hand writing on some different and strange instruments. The Irish bouzouki itself is a kind of bastardization of the greek bouzouki, which found its way into Irish/Brit folk music in the 60s (John Moynihan, Anne Briggs, Terry Woods).

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Hello!!! I hope you are enjoying your summer which is, by the way, not yet finished. I took my time to slow down, to read and think and enjoy life. Among other things I did, I explored (again) the fascinating Zine universe. Besides making them (which is greatly rewarding) I wanted to to understand how you can translate an idea to a Zine. Well… what better occasion to practice my favorite methodology?