Civilization is a Caloric Surplus

Wandering

What is Wandering?

We used wandering to explore and settle the planet.

by Morgan Oxley, Jul 04, 2025

Wandering is Good for You

It benefits your brain, body, and community.

by Morgan Oxley, Jul 04, 2025

Wandering is Revolutionary

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

by Morgan Oxley, Jul 04, 2025

How to Wander

Follow these 3 rules of wandering.

by Morgan Oxley, Jul 04, 2025

A Brief History of Wandering

Humans used wandering to explore and settle the earth.

by Morgan Oxley, Jul 04, 2025

Intuition

Unconscious cognition+pattern recognition+collective knowledge+kairos+luck?

by Morgan Oxley, Jul 04, 2025

Famous Wanderers

Of course! Here's your list with each person's name bolded, while keeping everything else the same: Albert Einstein – Fled fascism and wandered through Europe and America. Rode around on his bike while his mind wandered, reinventing physics. Alexandra David-Néel – Disguised herself to sneak into forbidden Lhasa,

by Morgan Oxley, Jul 04, 2025

Which Wanderer are You?

What kind of wandering should you be doing?

by Morgan Oxley, Jul 04, 2025

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Big Ideas

The Big Ideas of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

the Institute of Not-Knowing

If you can't erase uncertainty, you better embrace uncertainty, and live on a bigger map.

Industrial Society

Mining+agriculture+manufacturing+marketing. This is the backbone of the industrial system.

Influence

Industrial Society is fundamentally unfair, so it requires constant propaganda to keep it functioning.

Wandering

The wanderer uses intuition and reason to move through territory.

G.U.I.D.E.

A low-impact, high-ROI strategy for leading people through territory of all kinds.

New York City

The great global experiment to find out if everybody in the world can live together in one place. So far, so good.

Houses of Fire

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

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Learn the basic skills of wandering, and discover why artists and thinkers across history have used wandering to gather data and make better decisions.

Things people make. Sometimes they start out beautiful. Sometimes it takes them awhile to get that way.

Core concepts of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

The world is always bigger than we think it is. Outside, and inside too.

The most powerful behavioral influence in history.

A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

Mining+agriculture+manufacturing+marketing.

Some influence is natural. Some is beneficial. Some is neither.

We can try to make the world small enough to understand, or we can get comfortable with uncertainty. That's the mission of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Intuition is short-hand for the unconscious mind. It's your brain/body complexes ability to draw on resources your conscious cognition can't handle.

Learn the basic skills of wandering, and discover why artists and thinkers across history have used wandering to gather data and make better decisions.

Things people make. Sometimes they start out beautiful. Sometimes it takes them awhile to get that way.

Core concepts of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

The world is always bigger than we think it is. Outside, and inside too.

The most powerful behavioral influence in history.

A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

Mining+agriculture+manufacturing+marketing.

Some influence is natural. Some is beneficial. Some is neither.

We can try to make the world small enough to understand, or we can get comfortable with uncertainty. That's the mission of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Intuition is short-hand for the unconscious mind. It's your brain/body complexes ability to draw on resources your conscious cognition can't handle.

Learn the basic skills of wandering, and discover why artists and thinkers across history have used wandering to gather data and make better decisions.

Things people make. Sometimes they start out beautiful. Sometimes it takes them awhile to get that way.

Core concepts of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

The world is always bigger than we think it is. Outside, and inside too.

The most powerful behavioral influence in history.

A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

Mining+agriculture+manufacturing+marketing.

Some influence is natural. Some is beneficial. Some is neither.

We can try to make the world small enough to understand, or we can get comfortable with uncertainty. That's the mission of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Intuition is short-hand for the unconscious mind. It's your brain/body complexes ability to draw on resources your conscious cognition can't handle.

Learn the basic skills of wandering, and discover why artists and thinkers across history have used wandering to gather data and make better decisions.

Things people make. Sometimes they start out beautiful. Sometimes it takes them awhile to get that way.

Core concepts of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

The world is always bigger than we think it is. Outside, and inside too.

The most powerful behavioral influence in history.

A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

Mining+agriculture+manufacturing+marketing.

Some influence is natural. Some is beneficial. Some is neither.

We can try to make the world small enough to understand, or we can get comfortable with uncertainty. That's the mission of the Institute of Not-Knowing.