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Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright's Aftershocks offers a riveting and comprehensive account of one of the strangest and most consequential years on record. Drawing on interviews with officials from around the world and extensive research, the authors tell the story of how nationalism and major power rivalries constrained the response to the worst pandemic in a century. They demonstrate the myriad ways in which the crisis exposed the limits of the old international order and how the reverberations from COVID-19 will be felt for years to come.

Aging is a biological, cultural, legal, and psychological reality, and it's one of the rare, eroding constants we all face. If approached thoughtfully and with intention, though, the process of aging can be a journey filled with discovery, growth, and fulfillment. This book is about that.

Relationships have the potential to drastically improve our lives, or to sucker punch us in the emotional gut. Impactful as these interpersonal ties can be, it's worth the effort to become more familiar with them, question a lot of our default notions that surround them, and calibrate them to best suit our needs and those of the people we care about.

Rather than proposing a one-size-fits-all code of beliefs or behaviors, the ideas presented in this intentionally concise book encourage listeners to question their long-held biases, their definition of confidence, their level of self-sustainability, and the degree to which they allow themselves to evolve their beliefs over time

Becoming Who We Need to Be is a book about the challenges we face as societies and how the decisions we make as individuals matter in those larger struggles. How we seek out, filter, and parse knowledge shapes our understanding of ourselves and of the world. How we analyze, organize, and act upon this information influences how well our individual ideas and ideologies scale up to the societal level.

Few of us take the time to consider. We act according to data acquired by viewing the world from a single perspective: our own. As a result, we don't always think to ask certain questions that, when answered, may benefit us greatly. We don't do important things because we never think them worth doing. We don't assess unfamiliar facets of life, even though such scrutiny might change everything about how we live.

Travel is an excuse to challenge your beliefs and increase your perspective. Telling travel stories is an excuse to discuss society, philosophy, the evolution of modern relationships, and the state of contemporary marketing.

More tales from the road, told by full-time traveler Colin Wright. An unexpected relationship turns into an unconventional adventure that spans Reykjavík, Kolkata, and the vast highway system of the United States.

A calm, non-shouty, non-polemical, weekly news analysis podcast for folks of all stripes and leanings who want to know more about what's happening in the world around them. Hosted by analytic journalist Colin Wright since 2016. letsknowthings.substack.com

Three news stories a day, one sentence of summary and one sentence of context, apiece. Each episode is concise (usually less than 5 minutes long), politically unbiased, and focused on delivering information and understanding in a non-frantic, stress-free way. OSN is meant to help folks who want to maintain a general, situational awareness of what's happening in the world, but who sometimes find typical news sources anxiety-inducing, alongside those don't have the time to wade through the torrent of biased and editorial content to find what they're after. Hosted by analytic journalist Colin ...

A variety of things, read to you by Colin Wright. More info at colin.io

Brain Lenses is a show about how we see the world, ourselves, and each other. Hosted by Colin Wright. brainlenses.substack.com

Tales from the road, told by full-time traveler Colin Wright.