Write of Passage Fellowship Podcast
7 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -The Write of Passage Fellowship is designed to help a small group of intellectually curious minds to create world class essays on a topic of their choice.
With the rise of the internet and tools for mass communication, we’re witnessing a new generation of writers and content creators. It has helped me build my own audience, a process that I then systematized to create the Write of Passage course as we know it today.
The news doesn’t dive deep enough. The problems of the modern world are too complex for short articles with clickbait headlines. We plan to nudge the conversation in a more thoughtful direction. Each essay will analyze events with the context required to communicate nuance and help the reader understand them.
Each fellow receives mentorship, professional editing, and feedback from cohort participants.
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Episodes
How to Engineer your Business into a Consumer's Only Choice
September 14, 2020 18:20 - 33 minutesRead Adrienne's 10,000 word essay here. The common narrative is that a startup founder needs to have certain qualities and run their company in a certain way in order to succeed, but the fact of the matter is that these things vary greatly depending on the type of company you are building. Specifically, there are three types of risk that a company should be focused on aggressively removing, and these risks differ depending on the life cycle of the company and their industry. This essay will...
Rethinking human-AI interaction
June 09, 2020 03:22 - 34 minutesRead Jessy's 10,000-word essay here. In response to mounting concerns about the effects of AI on society - job loss, safety, fairness, and more - there is a counter-narrative, an optimistic vision of "human-centered AI" that augments humans instead of replacing them. But what does this entail? What does it take to develop systems that work in the dynamic, interactive, and messy environments in the real world, and what lessons can we draw from history, economics, and more? ______________...
We Need To Talk: Marriage Counseling with Capitalism Itself
May 22, 2020 00:45 - 57 minutesRead Rhys' 10,000-word essay here. Rhys' essay is titled We Need To Talk: Marriage Counseling with Capitalism Itself. It explores our post-capitalist future through playful dialogue (and VR scenes) with Humanity, Capitalism, and Post-Capitalism. The essay outlines the four crucial components of this future: 1) Networkism: how decentralized digital networks are outcompeting centralized institutions. 2) Coherent Pluralism: How individuals should consume information on the internet—by looking ...
Conjuring Scenius
May 18, 2020 19:25 - 36 minutesRead Packy's 10,000-word essay here. Throughout history, much of the world's progress has come from particular combinations of place, people, and time. Ancient Greece, Renaissance Florence, and Silicon Valley are just a few of the examples of this phenomenon, which Brian Eno dubbed "Scenius." One characteristic that each of these scenia share is that they emerged from catastrophe, from the Bubonic Plague to World War II. Today, we are in the midst of a similar crisis, and new scenia will ...
Universal Basic Income and the Capitalist Production of Consciousness
May 01, 2020 16:09 - 1 hourRead Oshan's essay here. This essay explores how universal basic income intervenes in the hyper-capitalist distortion of human development. Perhaps the most neglected product of modern economies is the human being. When digital technologies enabled the conversion of attention into capital, the commodification of consciousness became the next frontier of economic development. Universal basic income intervenes in this process by affording everyone a basis of decommodified...
Walt Disney - City Architect
April 25, 2020 00:35 - 29 minutesRead Suthen's 10,000-word essay here. We live in a world of unprecedented urbanization. Cities have brought society huge rewards, including record-high economic growth and value creation. Yet, cities are in a world of trouble. Their archaic infrastructures are showing cracks and their streets are congested to the point of being un-drivable. Who should we look to in order to tackle these problems? One surprising answer that I will explore in this essay—Walt Disney. Disney had everything figur...
E Pluribus Unum: A Case for Compulsory National Service
April 20, 2020 18:49 - 30 minutesRead Joe's 10,000-word essay here. When you hear the words compulsory national service, your head might fill with images of the draft. But the issue extends beyond World War II and Vietnam. When you turn on the news (which I don’t recommend) what do you see? National disunity. The student debt crisis. A country in need of repair. In this fellowship, Joe Wells explored the idea of compulsory national service. What is it? Where has it been tested? What were the effects? What could it look like...