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The Great Simplification
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The Great Simplification is a podcast with 419 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. PodLexicon indexes every episode of The Great Simplification and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
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An Antidote to Despair: What Dogs Reveal About the Metacrisis | Frankly 156 — August 21, 2026Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway | Archive TGS 127 — August 19, 2026The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us | Frankly 155 — August 14, 2026Your Anxiety Is Normal: A New Psychology for a World in Crisis with Richard Schwartz & Steffi Bednarek — August 12, 2026Unordinary Interventions: How to Plant Seeds for a Better Future | Frankly 154 — August 07, 2026The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant — August 05, 2026When Truth Becomes Hazardous: Navigating Information Through the Metacrisis | Frankly 153 — July 31, 2026The End of Globalization: Why Abundance Is an Illusion with Jeff Currie — July 29, 2026Watch With Both Eyes Open: The Beauty and the Horror of Our Moment — July 24, 2026Taking Love Seriously: What Ancient Wisdom & Modern Psychology Say About Interconnectedness with John Churchill — July 22, 2026Protect the Irreversible: What Matters Most in an Uncertain Future? | How to Think About the Future Pt 6, Frankly 151 — July 17, 2026It's Not Just Hormuz: The Chokepoints Changing Global Shipping Forever with Sal Mercogliano — July 15, 2026Foundations Before Outcomes: The Future Beneath Your Feet | How to Think About the Future Pt 5, Frankly 150 — July 10, 2026Can Money Serve Life? How to Fund Communities Doing the Real Work with Matthew Monahan — July 08, 2026A Legacy Worth Celebrating? Reflecting on 250 Years of the American Experiment | Frankly 149 — July 02, 2026Mordor to the Long Repair: How Might Daily Life Feel in the Next Decades? | How to Think About the Future Part 4, Frankly 148 — June 26, 2026We Weren't Expecting This: What Does a Super El Niño Mean For the Climate? with Tad Patzek — June 24, 2026How to Play 5D Chess: It's Not What You Think | Frankly 147 — June 19, 2026No More Dystopian Stories: How to See a Future Worth Living In with Rob Hopkins — June 17, 2026The Ultimate Alternative: Are You Okay With Nuclear Warfare? | Frankly 146 — June 16, 2026The U.S. Can't Back Down: The Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Messier Than You Think with Michael Every — June 12, 2026Why 'Community' Fails: Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants to Be a Villager with Nora Bateson, Jonathan Goldsmith & Lucas Jackson | RR 26 — June 10, 2026How to Think About the Future (Part 3): Uphill Futures in a Downhill World | Frankly 145 — June 05, 2026The Missing Half of Climate Change: Why Our Planet is at 50% Capacity and How to Get it Back with Brett KenCairn — June 03, 2026Casting Call for a Future Frankly — June 01, 2026A Word I Can't Seem to Understand: Non-Duality and Our Living World | Frankly 144 — May 29, 2026Darkness Deficit Disorder: How Constant Stimulation Has Shaped our Consumption with Andrew Holecek — May 27, 2026A Guide to Staying Human (Part 3): Why Mindfulness Matters When the World Is Breaking Down — May 22, 2026Learning in a Way that Actually Matters: Why Standardized Testing Contributed to the Metacrisis – and How to Fix It with Theo Dawson & Zak Stein | RR 25 — May 20, 2026A Guide to Staying Human (Part 2): Navigating Dread and Carrying the Weight of Tomorrow | Frankly 142 — May 15, 2026A World On the Precipice: The Last Oil Tanker From the Strait of Hormuz has Arrived – Now What? with Art Berman — May 13, 2026Wide Boundary News: Sacrificing Wilderness, Oil Data Propaganda, and Feeding the Superorganism's Brain — May 08, 2026Why Each American Lives Like a 40-Ton Whale: Power, Overshoot, and Climate with Tad Patzek — May 06, 2026A Perspective From Lebanon: Who Will We Be When Things Get Hard? | Frankly 140 — May 01, 2026This War Changes Everything: Are We Ready for Energy Shockwaves From the Strait of Hormuz? with Rory Johnston — April 29, 2026How to Think About the Future (Part 2): Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades | Frankly 139 — April 24, 2026Wisdom in a World in Crisis: The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spaciousness with Iain McGilchrist — April 22, 2026How to Think About the Future (Part 1): Changing the Future Starts with How You Think | Frankly 138 — April 17, 2026The Fantasy of Space Colonization: The Spaceship We're Already On with Tom Murphy & DJ White | RR 24 — April 15, 2026Everything Is About to Change: The World After Cheap Energy | Oil 301, Frankly 137 — April 11, 2026Built for Cheap Energy: What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Oil 201, Frankly 136 — April 10, 2026The Untold Energy Story: What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Oil 101, Frankly 135 — April 09, 2026Navigating the Metacrisis: Finding Calm in the Storm through Awareness and Meditation with Sam Harris — April 08, 2026What Does "Winning" Even Mean?: A World at the Edge of Change | Frankly 134 — April 03, 2026Scrambling for Energy Security: Navigating Unstable Energy Supplies Amidst Global Conflict with Chris Keefer — April 01, 2026Iran, U.S., and the Rest: The Unavoidable Pig in the Python | Frankly 133 — March 27, 2026Ending the AI Arms Race: Why Safer Futures Are Still Possible & What You Can Do to Help with Tristan Harris — March 25, 2026What to Do as the World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action | Frankly 132 — March 20, 2026The Plastic Detox: Reducing Endocrine Disruptors for Better Fertility and Human Health with Shanna Swan & Sian Sutherland | RR 23 — March 18, 2026Preparing for a More Fragile World: Iran Effects and End of Empire? | Frankly 131 — March 13, 2026
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