Podcast 1: Announcing the Cognitive Republic

Hi everyone, here’s my first cognitive republic podcast. This is a reading of the first piece I published back on 12 Nov 2025.

I’ll gradually catch up on all the previous pieces. In the future, these will be behind the paywall so that they are advert-free, but I will start to release them as a public podcast and on YouTube, but they will come with adverts then.

Here’s a start here page for the Cognitive Republic, and previous pieces are listed below (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre):

Each section is available via the link below - basically a ToC:

1. 1. ‘The Unfinished Contract — Our Democracies Must Learn or Die (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)’ (1771 words)

   2. ‘The conventional response to our democratic malaise (interlude):- tl,dr: “let’s do some incremental tinkering”’ (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) (3183 words).

   3. Democratic operating systems are glitching everywhere: Let's (not) patch and repair them (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) (2109 words)

   4. Abundance (Klein & Thompson) reviewed: a conventional success; but really a disappointment that does not deliver (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) (2255 words)

Here’s the podcast audio

For fun, here’s the Youtube

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