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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2027 might offer a preview of what may become the new normal within a decade.

The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The El Niño in the tropical Pacific is unlike anything in the historical record, and it's arriving on top of decades of warming. Today, Nate is joined by climate scientist @zekehausfather.com to break down the numbers and translate what they will actually feel like for humanity.

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The Coolest Year for the Rest of Our Lives? with Zeke Hausfather | TGS 236

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Military historian and political scientist Robert Pape describes something he often found himself having to explain while teaching students at the US Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In this episode, Nate welcomes military historian and political scientist Robert Pape for an in-the-moment breakdown of the Iran war's trajectory.

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Is America’s Strategy in Iran Backfiring? with Robert Pape | TGS 235

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Philosopher and author Sarah Wilson explains how prepping alone doesn’t work, and that we should instead be working toward a radical simplification: an intentional shift toward a slower, more communal way of living.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by philosopher and author Sarah Wilson for an exploration of the emotions that come from learning about, processing, and then embodying the full extent of the metacrisis.

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The Opportunities of a World in Collapse with Sarah Wilson | TGS 234

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What would it actually take to reach a global agreement to ban the development of superintelligence, and are we already out of time?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

He has come to believe that ecological and energy constraints will not force humanity onto a wiser path, rather that the choice has to be made consciously, person by person.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For over two decades, Charles Eisenstein has argued that the crises defining modern life all trace back to the story of separation, the largely unspoken belief that each of us is an isolated self, competing against other selves and against a nature made of indifferent, exploitable resources.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This video is not offering mental health advice. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, one of the earliest researchers in AI safety, to lay out why “controllable superintelligence” is a misguided goal, destined to lead to an entity smarter than all of humanity – and possibly our own extinction.

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One AI Risk to Rule Them All with Roman Yampolskiy | TGS 233

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If domination isn’t an aberration but a predictable output of the game board we’ve built, what does that mean for how we try to fix it?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In this episode, Nate welcomes author and philosopher, Charles Eisenstein, for a long-requested conversation on the mythologies underneath civilization.

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Can Humanity Choose What’s Next? with Charles Eisenstein | TGS 232

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The stories we tell to better understand ourselves rhyme and align across time and tradition.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Greg Elliott, a systems theorist and author of the Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis (PSH), to unpack why our institutions themselves have become so psychopathic, and how that affects the behavior of the average human.

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The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped with Greg Elliott | TGS 231

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As we continue through challenging times, how can we balance critical physical and policy work with the internal work of healing our relationship to the mental parts we shy away from?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The era of the standard deviation is here. Biologist Olivier Hamant suggests we learn jazz.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Current geopolitical events continue to expose just how complex and fragile our global economic system is. As such, The Great Simplification team is re-releasing this episode with @edconway.bsky.social, which covers the critical materials that underpin everything from your phone to your house.

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The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway | Archive TGS 127

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As cheap, abundant energy becomes less accessible, are there other -isms we should be considering?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today, Nate is joined by Internal Family Systems founder, Richard Schwartz, and climate psychologist Steffi Bednarek to explore what might become possible if we stop smothering uncomfortable parts of ourselves and begin embracing them as critical pieces of our own mental ecologies?

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Internal Family Systems for a Turbulent World | RR 27

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Could balancing our focus on performance and robustness be the key to reframing our relationship with the entire Earth, bringing more stability, rest, and meaning to our lives?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by biologist and biophysicist Olivier Hamant to explore why living systems prioritize robustness over performance, and what that means for a civilization built almost entirely in the opposite direction.

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Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant | TGS 230

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What might it mean for ordinary people if the credit and dollar system that has funded American consumption for eighty years starts to break down?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Is the world entering a new commodity supercycle driven by scarcity and deglobalization, or is the market going to keep shrugging off these shocks?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

How would it feel to be truly at one with the planet, and how might it change the way we act?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by Jeff Currie for a wide-boundary look at what happens when the buffers that have suppressed energy price signals for fifty years finally run dry.

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Why Abundance Is an Illusion with Jeff Currie | TGS 229

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A growing chorus of psychologists, contemplatives, and systems thinkers argue that most of us, and most of our institutions, are running an outdated psychological and spiritual “operating system,” one never built for the converging ecological, economic, and cultural crises we face.

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Is “might makes right” becoming the central pillar governing the world’s oceans, and if so, what does that mean for the cost of everything that arrives by ship?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

In this episode, Nate welcomes Dr. John Churchill, a psychologist and former Buddhist monk, to explore a map of human development that runs from “first-person” perspective of the isolated self all the way to a felt, embodied sense of interdependence with the planet itself.

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How Love & Wisdom Shape Human Development with John Churchill | TGS 228

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Why does the volume and velocity of modern trade make a conflict like the one in the Strait of Hormuz so much more consequential than at any other time in history?

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In this episode, Nate is joined by maritime historian and former merchant mariner, Sal Mercogliano, to break down what the ongoing events in the Strait of Hormuz reveal about the state of global shipping and trade.

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The Chokepoints Changing Global Shipping Forever with Sal Mercogliano | TGS 227

YouTube video by Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What would it take to build financial infrastructure that actually gets capital to the people already doing the work of healing land and community?

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