“Rawthenticity” (Kindred Spirits e8) ፨
This episode of Kindred Spirits was recorded one fine afternoon on the 25th of September 2025. As ever, John Anthony and I weft our way through the mercurial and oft-vexing domains of being intellectually honest, trickster-appreciating, developmentally oriented and emergence-loving speaker-facilitators seeking to co-create a world more curious and kind™—an ever-renewing fractal-pattern that’ll baffle most but delight the kindred spirits whomst are attuned—and we’re okay with this.
And as a side-note I would suggest that this here is a living example of what it means to cultivate and live into the ambivalence (or ‘the trickster’s irony’) that is ‘the proper form of resistance’ to M̴̨̧̯̲͎̬͖̅̒̽͆̿͗̍̀͊͘͘o̷̧̜̦͓̠̹̖̾̅͌l̶̡̘̲̟̗̺̞͇̩͙̙̞̯̻͒́̆̐̄̀ō̸̩̘͔̹̄̒͝ͅͅç̸̨̛͖̣̠͙̺͔͔̩̪͈̱̘̟̃̈́̎̽̓̓̾̐́̈́͘͝͝h̶̤͒̓̈́̇̉̔͆̿̐̉̄̈́̕ and The Machine (to loosely paraphrase from a recent museletter).
Jenny Odell writes of how she recently earned about a search engine called Kagi. “Using it reminds me of a time when Google’s search just worked, felt straightforward, and wasn’t rife with ads and AI summaries,” Jenny writes. “(My hatred of AI summaries is a topic for another newsletter.)”
I too, cannot stand artificially intelligent summaries (for most things). A summary of something mechanical or trivial is fine, sure. But to summarise anything complex and warm would rob you of much of its richness.
Thus, I stopped providing AI summaries of podcast episodes a while ago. They would always have the effect of reducing and somehow ‘cheapening’ what was shared into something bland, homogenised, and readily commodifiable.
Kindred Spirits—and much of our work—is veritably not that. It actively resists reduction, and thus remains non-mechanical, and always-already enlivened to emergence and the greater dance.
So—enjoy the episode! We can’t summarise it. 😅
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