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Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.
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Elle Griffin
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How many hours a week do you (actually) spend on your salary job?
I can’t find any statistics about this (because how would you?), but most of the people I know who work salary jobs work significantly fewer tha…
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Elle Griffin
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You’d still work if you didn’t have to
But it would feel more like play.
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Elle Griffin
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Maybe you need to have more fun
"Fun" as essential to human flourishing.
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Elle Griffin
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Let's read the Terra Ignota series together
Our summer reading is Ada Palmer's feat of utopian worldbuilding.
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Elle Griffin
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June 2024

Who's qualified to save the world?
Two climate dystopias on our unlikeable saviors.
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Elle Griffin
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What futuristic projects should I visit around the world?
What projects should I study around the world? And would you be interested in showing me around your city or project? I’d love your help plannin…
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Elle Griffin
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I'm traveling the world to study utopia
An update about my life and artistic process.
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Elle Griffin
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My TEDx talk about the future of fiction
And publishing.
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Elle Griffin
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May 2024

“Friends” as the ideal community
The one where communes aren't the answer.
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Elle Griffin
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I’d rather have an investor than a publishing contract
In pursuit of a better book deal (and record deal and podcast deal...)
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Elle Griffin
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Humanity from the perspective of robots
Talking points for our literary salon next week.
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Elle Griffin
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