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Boss Battle 5: Getting Your Way…And Theirs
Everybody wins!
I want to tell you a story about how conflicts start - and how they end. It's a tale about a little, undramatic event in history called the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In 1962, the world came the closest it ever has to the brink of nuclear war.
The US had attempted to overthrow Cuban d...
by Geof Krum, Sara Ness —
Sep 27, 2025
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A Framework for Conflict at the End of the World
In early 2022, Sara and I got a call from Rebel Wisdom. They had a problem: their community, despite being unusually bright, dangerously curious, and predisposed to that greatest of libertarian vices: solipsism, didn’t really know how to talk to each other. Their community was founded...
Jun 03, 2025
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