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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Karma Law strikes again. People who automated consumption is now being consumed by automation.

Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Today, in the world of Harvard Business Review, LinkedIn gurus, and power-hungry politicians, truth is no longer something pursued — it is packaged, monetised, and sold. Three steps to clarity. Five skills of high performers. Seven ways to lead through uncertainty. How to close the deal - and win!

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Leadership Without Truth: What Camus Saw and HBR Never Understood

In 1946, Albert Camus was invited to give a series of lectures in North America.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

On the smallness of old men obsessed with power.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A play: The Theater of Leadership Development Leadership is not a performance. This piece rips off the mask. Seven acts. No buzzwords. Just truth, care—and a quiet rebellion. open.substack.com/pub/houseofb...

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A piece, a play, a poetic slam: Something is about to unfold. Not on a stage, but in a mirror. Seven acts. A lens, slowly turned. Not a manifesto. Not a toolkit. A philosophical unmasking of the leadership industry—its myths, its performances, its polished evasions.

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The Theater of Leadership Development

By Kenneth Mikkelsen

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Excellent journalism on the war in Ukraine. Adam Entous conducted more than 300 interviews over more than a year with government, military and intelligence officials in Ukraine, the United States, Britain, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Turkey. This is a LONGREAD.

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The Secret History of the War in Ukraine

This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

No child dreams of becoming an accountant, an insurance salesman, or a CEO. Children dream of courage and beauty, justice and goodness. It is not until later they end up in a box on LinkedIn.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New poem. On the house. For modern times. 🎪

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In 1958, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel ‘The Leopard’ was published. The central idea is captured in the famous quote: "If we want things to stay as they are, they must change." How would a poem in Lampedusa’s spirit sound today?

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 04/03/2025

The Situation, March 3, 2025 Stop defaming Neville Chamberlain by comparing Trump to him: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Anyone concerned with current world affairs should watch the documentary “The Trouble with Being Human These Days” with Zygmunt Bauman(1925–2017). Link to the documentary: vimeo.com/154973102 (paid access). The collage is homemade. Photo credit: Samuel Sánchez for El País.

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Existential Movement @existentialworld.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

An oasis in the known universe needs to be looked after with care. Join us if you agree that we need to get better at this. youtu.be/h7SwEGryo-M?...

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EXISTENTIAL MOVEMENT : BRINGING WISDOM TO A TURBULENT WORLD

YouTube video by ExistentialMovement

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Andrea Wulf @andreawulf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Bloody marvellous … one of the best novels I’ve read in a while.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

AI models invites leaders and managers across the organisation to ensure philosophy is deliberately embedded within the development and execution of AI strategies,” states this new article from @mitsloan.bsky.social. True, but let’s not make philosophy the bitch of business.

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Philosophy Eats AI

AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The one with historical experience knows that hubris always goes hand in hand with nemesis. The regulator of arrogance is justice. At all times, they struggle to restore balance. If you despair over the state of the world right now, know this.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Who would have guessed that driving a Tesla is now like driving a Beetle in 1939 Germany?

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Ai, ai, ouch. Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds. Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets… — Macbeth As always a delight to read Alan Lightman.

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When the Unnatural Becomes Natural

Artificial intelligence will redefine some of our deepest assumptions about the makeup of the world around us.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Empowering Affected Interests by Archon Fung and Sean W. D. Gray. This book reimagines the democratic project for a globalised world in which states can no longer satisfy democratic ambitions. Free PDF download.⬇️ cup.org/4bttpKW

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Empowering Affected Interests

Cambridge Core - Political Philosophy - Empowering Affected Interests

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder,” said Socrates. But if AI accelerates our access to answers, do we risk diminishing the messy, frustrating, but essential process of grappling with uncertainty? www-psychologytoday-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.psyc...

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The Death of "I Don't Know"

As AI serves up certainty like fast food, we're becoming intellectually obese—too full of answers to hunger for deep understanding.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell, 1984

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There you have it. A display of Nordic leadership in the face of 🎺’s aggression towards Greenland. Imagine this taking place anywhere else in the world.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

“The limits of my language are the limits of my world,” Ludwig #Wittgenstein wrote in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). But how does this play out in the world of business? #businesslanguage #worldviews

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Speech by Peter Drucker given at Bennington College (20 May, 1943) about the nature of individuality and society. Drucker begins the essay revisiting the thought of Kierkegaard and the question he posed of how human existence is possible. Full text available here: ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/coll...

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Finally got a chance to watch Brett Morgen’s film Moonage Daydream about David Bowie on a big screen yesterday. It is marvelous. ❤️ A review can be read here: theconversation.com/moonage-dayd...

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Broicism is stoicism as life hack. Is it any mystery why rich tech bro’s and their fanboys love self-absorbed Roman philosopher-kings? A recommended read by @markdery.bsky.social.

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How Stoicism Became Broicism

Is it any mystery why rich tech bro’s (and their fanboys) love self-absorbed Roman philosopher-kings?

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Jean-Francois Lyotard on the mercantilisation of knowledge. From his book 'The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge' (published in 1979). Sounds familiar?

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Futurist? What's does it even mean? Maybe the world needs more preparists - people who can tie together the PREsent, PAst and futuRE.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This episode of the ‘Why It Matters’ podcast with Luke Martiros is available on Spotify. Link ➡️ open.spotify.com/episode/0a04...

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Kenneth Mikkelsen on Leading an Examined Life

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ask her if she knows Rilke, Pessoa and Angelou. If she does, you know. Simple as that.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Philo humour. Marx shows Sartre a yellow card for excessively being French. HT @existentialcomics.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/11/2024

Here are the 100 notable books from 2024 — including standout fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. nyti.ms/41cJsee

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of days; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night" read by Sir Anthony Hopkins: youtu.be/Qnn9468vhwI.

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Kenneth Mikkelsen @kenmikkelsen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Branching out How you branch out in life determines who you end up feeling a sense of belonging with.

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