Bla*Bla's

Transcript, context, and related artwork: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/17/dfw-leadership-debbie-millman/

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David Foster Wallace on leadership, read by Debbie Millman

Recorded at the New York Public Library. Details, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/24/malcolm-gladwell-nypl-interview/

Malcolm Gladwell on critcism

Malcolm Gladwell on tolerance

Context, transcript, and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/10/joanna-macy-a-year-with-rilke-death-mortality/

Excerpted from On Being with Krista Tippett: http://onbeing.org/program/joanna-macy-a-wild-love-for-the-world/61

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Joanna Macy on moral strength

Joanna Macy on life

Background, context, and essay text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/27/victoria-safford-gates-of-hope/

Recorded excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/parker-palmer-and-courtney-martin-the-inner-life-of-rebellion

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Parker Palmer reads Victoria Safford on hope

Transcript, context, and more here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/13/paul-goodman-silence/

Excerpted from WBUR's https://soundcloud.com/stylusradio/s1e1

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Christopher Ricks reads Paul Goodman on silence

Background, transcribed highlights, and more: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/26/sense-of-nonsense-alan-watts-tao-of-philosophy/

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Alan Watts: Sense of Nonsense

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/15/nikki-giovanni-love-friendship-loneliness/

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"Choices" by Nikki Giovanni

"I'm Not Lonely" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

"Love Is" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

"A Poem of Friendship" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

"When I Die" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

David Foster Wallace's iconic 2005 Kenyon College graduation address. Context and transcript here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/

Part 2 here: http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water-2

David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" (part 1)

Human Game I

Human Game II

Story: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/18/sophie-blackall-debbie-millman-interview/

Excerpt from Design Matters with Debbie Millman: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/design-matters-with-debbie-133

Subscribe to Design Matters on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

Sophie Blackall on Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Missed Connections

Full conversation and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/06/wendy-macnaughton-caroline-paul-design-matters/

Excerpt from https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/carolinepaulandwendymacnaughton

True love, depression, and purpose

On true love

Recorded at NYPL Live. Background, transcript, and discussion here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/30/dan-savage-andrew-sullivan-nypl-live/

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