The Flourishing Commons

Flourishing as Reframing: Dialectic, Collectives, and the Breathing of Ongoingness

Thoughts on responding to this moment, together

Jul 15 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

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May 2025

Origins Podcast Season Eight

A meditation on conversation and the collective narrative of our time

May 16 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

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March 2025

The misconception that sunders flourishing (part two)

A two-part essay on the most debilitating mental model of flourishing and how we reclaim a more robust conception.

Mar 24 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

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The misconception that sunders flourishing (part one)

A two-part essay on the most debilitating mental model of flourishing and how we reclaim a more robust conception.

Mar 17 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

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December 2024

An evening of encountering flourishing

On December 12, the first in-person Flourishing Salon at the National Academy of Sciences

Dec 12, 2024 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

Unsettledness: A philosophy for democracy and flourishing

We need a philosophy of unsettledness—a lens that embraces messiness, impermanence, and paradox as sources of vitality and possibility

Dec 2, 2024 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

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September 2024

Flourishing Together: Toward a Collective Philosophy of Science

A conversation with a foremost scientist sparks a re-appraisal of the production of knowledge and its role in how we live well together

Sep 15, 2024 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

August 2024

What does poetry work in us?

Igniting a conversation about the relationship between poetry, science, and flourishing with a modern master, change-maker, and wise and winsome voice

Aug 6, 2024 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

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June 2024

Lessons from a life in anthropology and the conversational nature of reality

A mind-widening conversation and ruminations on how it informs how we live now

Jun 16, 2024 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

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April 2024

Albert-László Barabási - Network science, breakthrough orientation, and a life made around discovery

Reflecting on a wide-ranging conversation with Albert-László Barabási

Apr 21, 2024 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

Origins and Ongoingness

A new season of the Origins Podcast

Apr 9, 2024 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

February 2024

The oxygen of imagination

What I'm learning weeks after a masterclass in asking with Krista Tippett and Sara Hendren

Feb 25, 2024 • 

Ryan McGranaghan

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