The Long Game: Civilization & Work is a Humane Futures podcast about how our institutions, economies, and workplaces shape a humane—or inhumane—future. Host Gregory Sparzo, author of Tragedy & Work, Humane Hiring, and the forthcoming Humane Economics, talks with builders, skeptics, and practitioners about redesigning work at the scale of civilizations, not news cycles. If you still believe better systems won’t build themselves, this show is for you.
14 episodes transcribedGregory Sparzo’s text argues that artificial intelligence is rapidly transitioning from a helpful tool to an entrenched, potentially obstructive insti...
The provided text introduces Gregory Sparzo’s upcoming book, Humane Economics, which serves as a civilizational expansion of his previous work on orga...
What if the next empire never plants a flag? In this solo episode, Gregory Sparzo argues that for the first time in human history, civilizational powe...
Gregory Sparzo’s text explores the modern phenomenon of "bullshit jobs, roles that lack meaningful purpose and exist primarily to serve internal...
The Fig Tree Strategy: Pruning Systems for Human Flourishing The provided text argues that modern institutions—such as healthcare, education, and...
Systemic Redesign: Ackoff’s Methodology and Its Human Limits We explore the intellectual transition from harmonizing different ideas to a more ri...
This episode takes the listener back to the beginning of the formation of Humane Systems and more importantly, the story behind the mission that devel...
This analysis explores how modern professional success often requires a systematic sacrifice of one's authentic self in exchange for institutional sta...
Today's episode is entitled Designing for Sinners, Not Saints.Most initiatives fail not because the people involved are incompetent, and not because t...
We're going to explore an issue that seems plucked from the headlines—seemingly intelligent people on both sides of a debate locked in intractable con...
This episode explores what happened after the fall of the Organization Man—the old promise of lifetime loyalty in exchange for lifetime security. When...
Why does so much “modern work” feel hollow, even when the pay is good and the office is polished? In this episode of The Long Game: Civilization &...
In this episode of The Long Game, Gregory Sparzo digs deeper into why so much modern work feels exhausting and strangely empty, even for people who ar...
Why Civilization and Work? | Inaugural EpisodeSomething is wrong. Not just with your job. Not just with your organization. Something structural — civi...
