# John Koenig

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756: Log Off, Touch Grass & Touch Ass

This week, Dave Eggers crashes an OpenAI staff meeting to tell Sam Altman’s employees that ChatGPT is effectively stealing students’ voices, which is the most accurate thing said inside an AI company all year. Meanwhile, Anthropic gets a judge to approve a $1.5 billion copyright settlement after al…

The Grey Matters (Part 2)

Attribution: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The words from Alina's mystical dictionary come from John Koenig's amazing project The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which is (and will continue to be) a massive influence for this work in progress. You can ⁠purchase the dictionary/book⁠ here (which is awesome), and you can ⁠al…

Stories for God's Little Ones-Father John Koenig

A small collection of short stories for children, written by the Catholic Jesuit priest, Fr. Finn. Some of his most well known characters make an appearance - Tom Playfair and Claude Lightfoot. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Sonder - The Vivid Worlds of Strangers

In this month's episode of Two Wayward Writers South, Rachel and I discuss Sonder, a term coined by John Koenig in 2012. It refers to the realisation that strangers' lives are as vivid and complex as our own. Along the way, we also talk about the perspectives and experiences of a variety of authors…

The Nostalgia Economy:What's Happening in Your Brain and Why Brands are Exploiting it

Mike Brevik goes solo to unpack why songs like Dreams, Careless Whisper, and Bye Bye Bye keep hijacking the internet decades after release. He walks through the neuroscience of why a familiar song bypasses your skepticism filter, then shows how Ocean Spray and Heinz turned that same reaction into r…

Sonder

There’s a particular kind of guest who makes you forget you’re supposed to be running a podcast interview and not just having a conversation. Nick Maas is one of those guests. Nick runs Dancing Goat Distillery out in Cambridge, Wisconsin, and he just launched Stillman’s Sonder, a pair of 10-year wh…

S5 Ep25: Say goodbye to unproductive meetings with better facilitation featuring Jennifer Aitken

This week, we focus on a topic everyone can relate to: bad meetings. According to today’s guest, Jennifer Aitken, unproductive meetings can often be avoided with more forethought, clearer structure, and better preparation.  Jennie is Director of Medical Staff Quality and Improvement for Island He…

Rewilding Language: The Words We're Losing

There's a Chinaberry tree on our nature strip, a Lilac in the back corner and an underlying grief knowing 'acorn' is being dropped from the Oxford Junior Dictionary to make room for 'chatroom.' Words are disappearing and not just the weird ones. Nature words, specifically. Researchers are calling i…

Word You Never Heard - Agnosthesia

Words are being removed from dictionaries to make room for new ones. We think some of them deserve better. Who knows what forgotten little nocturnal marsupial was erased for the word 'floppy disc'? This is our small attempt to restore some balance. Word You Never Heard is a recurring series from Pa…

Narrated Essay: What the Circle Asks

In Bailick Park in Midleton, County Cork, nine immense stainless-steel feathers rise from the earth and curve toward the sky, forming an empty bowl. From a distance, they look almost weightless, like the remains of an immense bird. Up close, they are ribbed steel with riveted joints, casting a dark…