Audiobooks

This closing audio episode turns the lens inward, arguing that self-knowledge is the one advantage no algorithm can replicate. (16min 30sec)

This audio episode returns to the book's title theme directly, tying the series together around what's been lost from shared public life and what it would take to rebuild it. (16min 04sec)

This audio episode looks at where human creativity still has an edge over automation, and what it takes to pivot toward that edge before it closes. (17min 21sec)

This audio episode breaks down what real independence looks like layer by layer, and why relying on any single system for security is a bet most people don't realize they're making. (16min 48sec)

This audio episode looks at how attention itself has become a resource fought over and manipulated, and what that fight costs the people caught in the middle of it. (24min 07sec)

This audio episode names the break point directly, the moment where old assumptions about work and value stop holding and something new has to take their place. (16min 53sec)

This audio episode examines how institutions defend themselves against change, and why that instinct to protect the status quo often does more harm than the threat itself. (19min 28sec)

This audio episode looks at what's disappeared from the space between individuals and institutions, and why that gap matters more than people realize.(17min 02sec)

This audio episode challenges the assumption that today's institutions and roles are fixed, and asks what happens when the ground everyone built on turns out to be temporary.(19min 19sec)

This episode zooms out to the global picture, tracing how pressures on sovereignty, economics, and technology are converging faster than most institutions can respond to. (17min 59sec)

Perry Kinkaide reads from The Lost Commons: Human Relevance Under Siege, his new book on what happens to human relevance as automation and AI reshape work, community, and daily life. (14min 48sec)