The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens - Special Request & Community Announcement

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

UPDATE: We are no longer accepting survey submissions. Thanks for your feedback! Greetings! As we look ahead to the future of our podcast and organization, we hope to continue bringing you the most relevant information, guests, and conversations surrounding The Great Simplification. To that end, we're asking for your feedback. We have put together a brief survey that includes questions about what issues, content, and worldviews are most important to you.  Take the Survey → https://forms.gle/egpgLxVHpiB27Kv28 We've also set up a Discord community as a way to connect TGS viewers and listeners (who span across the globe). 🌏 Join the Discord → https://discord.gg/ZFfQqtqMJf 🌍 As the world converges on the systems synthesis of energy, ecology, behavior, etc., we hope to scale the reach and impact of our work to more humans, communities, and organizations. Thank you for helping us in this goal!

Greetings, friends, and fellow humans alive at the same time I am on this blue-green earth. In lieu of a frankly this week, I have an announcement and a favor to ask the viewers of this program, which, by the way, since I started with 100 followers and went to 1,000 and then 10,000, and over 50,000 on YouTube and another 40,000 or so on the podcast platforms, I told my staff that when we reached 100,000 viewers, we would create a Discord channel because at these times, it's important to be able to converse on these topics in a much deeper way than we can cover on a cursory podcast. So we have done that. We have created a Discord channel for the community to connect with one another. It's a place to share knowledge, discuss ideas related to the great simplification and the complex and delicate systems of our current society and our current world, basically for like-minded people to join the conversation here online and potentially in person.

If you'd like to join that, you can click on the Discord link in the description of this episode. And we'll see how that goes. Also, I would like to ask a favor of you, the viewers, the listeners of this show. We have appreciated the feedback we've gotten on emails and comments on YouTube, but we want to better understand the issues that are important to you and basically how to make the channel better. So we've put together a short survey also linked in the description that should only take about five minutes.

It took me two and a half minutes, but I wrote. wrote it. And there's some open-ended questions at the end. We will be reading all the answers. So if you ever wanted us to feature a certain guest or spend more time on this or that topic, this is the time to write down your ideas. We'd love to hear from you. You know, this whole podcast thing as an emergent part of my own work was surprising to me. Two years ago, I didn't plan to be here, but the world is converging on. this story and I think as many of you do the next couple of years are going to be vitally important. If you follow this channel you know by now that my philosophy is that I want to put

forth content that is credible, is interesting, is relevant to your lives and our futures, that's non-political and that somehow pertains to the foundational aspects of our situation, which is energy, ecology, and human behavior. I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I don't know what to do. And I don't have prescriptions. But what we're trying to do is pass the baton to more humans to play a role in our collective future.

And in doing so, change the initial conditions of what's coming. I'm still learning. And because of that, I realize how little I knew, two and a half years. years ago. I learned from my guests. I learned from the comments. I learned from these processes. I hope you're all learning along with me and we'd really love your feedback. Many Franklies and much more content coming soon. The next 25 episodes are either recorded or scheduled. Lots of great ones in the hopper. Gaya speed to you all. And thank you for joining Discord and filling out the survey. There will be a frankly next week. Thank you.