Shores Of Ignorance

Alison joins us for a beautiful conversation about marriage, love, and hope, on the 20th anniversary of Michael and Alison’s marriage.

Michael and Matt ask themselves, “what would your future self say to you?” Did Tom Petty or Michael Jordan know what they were capable of before finding out? Recorded July 6, 2022

The ordinary becomes extraordinary, on the shores. Men and women, sport and competitions, tyranny and sacrifice. The totality of life is unquantifiable and incomparable. Recorded June 15, 2022.

Compare yourself in a self-referential way, to your self, your lineage, you history, of your family and your country. Not to social media and those around you portraying a snap shot of themselves at their best. Recorded June 8, 2022

What happens if you disregard the value of loving one person for the rest of your life? We discuss instagram activism, time horizons, Chesterton's fence, institutions, and marriage.

We cannot learn without pain. We create stories and act them out to test their validity. We need to be challenged (pain) to experience growth. Recorded May 11, 2022.

You need humility and gratitude to contend with the fact that the rules are outdated and even inappropriate, but are protecting you from things you don’t understand, and lessons that you don’t want to have to re-learn. Recorded May 4, 2022

What do you do with yourself? How do you spend your time? It’s an existential crisis. How do you classify work at work? Is just showing up to a physical space considered work? Are things outside of “work” that contribute to your “work” "work?". Recorded April 27, 2022

In this conversation we were past the shores. We were at the first sand bar. Maybe going to the second sandbar, didn’t make it, had to retreat to the first to stand and catch some air. Recorded April 21, 2022

Categories are a helpful tool to negotiate reality, but every category is wrong at the edges. Recorded April 13, 2022

Everything has value, whether you measure it in currency or material goods. Dave Keisel, an engineer turned seasoned stock market trader, joins us to share his unique perspective on technology and money. In today’s episode, Matt, Michael, and Dave explore the concept of assigning value, and its moral implications. 1:25 - Introduction 6:18 - Technology and the stock market 17:07 - Average money min...

Recorded March 30, 2022. We discuss how we have to compartmentalize in order to be responsible, but in complex systems, that always leads to something not being accounted for.

There seems to be something truer than the objective, and it’s wrapped up in time, felt in your very awareness of the future, and only properly discussed with metaphor. "For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited." - C.S. Lewis “Between what is said and not meant, and...

Love is a generative, renewing force. It changes everything. It reveals you, and you will transform yourself to keep it, and transform your world to serve it. When it's a Love for a woman we call it romance. It is similar for ultimate love - Godly love. Perhaps religion is an attempt to explain and codify the transformation of ultimate Love. Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert https:/...

This episode begins with a conversation about survivorship bias, data, narrative, and politics, and then shifts into a discussion about Hope. What is hope, why does it matter, and how does it relate with truth, rules, and decision making?

You have to be able to ask questions, how else to you become competent? We discuss the Russia/Ukraine situation, the relationship between data and narratives, justice and forgiveness. Much love to you all.

Freedom is preferable to safety, rules are arbitrary, you need tension between the line drawers and the line blurers.

There has been a lot of of talk about MDM: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformaiton. We dig into the different meanings and why this is so disturbing. We look at how terrorism is being redefined. https://www.cisa.gov/mdm https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/02/07/dhs-issues-national-terrorism-advisory-system-ntas-bulletin https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LB9DkxkwNK2em5lphKHfo?si=vmq2v-hNSLqcUQ...

We talk about order and chaos, the out there, religion, outdated stale language, and what it means to thrive.

We discuss truth, lies, misinformation, compassion, empathy, and Joe Rogan.

People love to share, whether it's a post on social media, or telling a friend or lover about your hopes and dreams, it seems to be a human necessity.

Your conscious creative spirit is capable of unimaginable good, and unimaginable bad. What are you to do when you find yourself in possession of such a powerful tool?

The way you choose to explain the world has drastic effects on your ability to improve it. We discuss critical theory through the example of cheerleading, propaganda, and the abstraction of sports from war and free speech from violence.

We kick off a new century on Shores of Ignorance. We discuss the origin of the name of the show, and what our mission is. We discuss a passage from Viktor Frankl on success, and ask what it means to be good, and what it means to be evil. Then we discuss what the emergence of new memes in the cultural narrative, and what that might be saying about where we are and where we're headed.

Two years ago we committed to recording a conversation every Wednesday night. This is our 100th. That is a huge milestone. It's hard to know what this is becoming, but we're sure happy to be here. Lots of love to you all, happy 2022, and happy 100th 🥃.