Narrative Responsibility

Elena Wolf
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A podcast examining the meta-story of your life, whether it is serving you, and how to change it for the better. ...Come for the introspection, personal growth tools, social philosophy, and compassionate re-frames...stay for the side quests into non-linear time, life in an attention economy, the ethics of Sauron’s gaze, and why genre is a dialogue not a category.

  1. 3D AGO

    How Shimmers That Innocent Light

    Some thoughts about our cultural concept of innocence, specifically the innocence of childhood, and an outline of the authoritarian parenting style, and how these are playing out in current events. Bonus reminder of how reality paradigms are formed for individuals and cultures, and how they can be updated.

    34 min

  2. 12/31/2025

    Synthetic Thinking

    A sort of companion episode to "The Frogs, the Poets, and the Fools." Is thinking a broad or specific verb? Should it be used only for analytical and logical tasks, or can it also be a more organic and integrated process? Come settle the debate between competing meanings and maybe learn a few new ways to use your mind…whatever you want to call them!

    33 min

  3. 11/24/2025

    My Kink Is Being Understood

    Some thoughts about comprehension, the inadequacies of language, and the fundamental pointlessness of generative AI for translating individual human experience into a form someone else might possibly be able to understand. Bonus content about what it means to understand courtesy of an ongoing debate with my yogi friend.

    26 min

  4. 08/10/2025

    Murderbot's Guide to Consciousness

    Did you know that fiction is one of the best tools we have for deeply understanding another person's experience of consciousness? Pull up a chair, it's story time with Auntie E, and she's got a tale of science fiction, splintered focus, and how Murderbot's view of its own system helped solve a problem that six years of test-iterating couldn't....

    35 min

  5. 04/02/2025

    Mental Load: The Pink Tax on Women's Mental Health

    The mental load of CARING about the emotional and existential experience of everyone in a household is often carried by women. This invisible burden contributes to heightened stress and poorer mental health for women, functioning analagously to a "pink tax" paid in order to have a family. Let's dream of a future where that isn't true - and talk about some strategies to bring us closer to that dream.

    35 min

  6. 03/19/2025

    MTBI Type in Context

    Our relationship to our own MBTI type - as well as other type preferences - is often a result of the family and culture we grew up in. Those experiences impact what we seek in adult relationships and how well we can relate to different personality types. Type alone is never enough to answer compatibility questions. It is ALWAYS type plus context!

    32 min

  7. 03/05/2025

    Types of Intimacy

    So...what kind of relationship do you want? What roles do you want to play in your romantic partnership? And how might you show up differently in one relationship vs. another? Come explore the types of intimacy in more depth - it's the relationship parallel to our unfolding mandala of self.

    32 min

  8. 02/19/2025

    What MBTI Type Should I Date?

    Part One. Because there is just too much that goes into the question of why you should date any particular person than their MBTI type, and also because there is more that goes into how you view someone's MBTI type than your own type. Today we dig into the two most common dating strategies, "opposites attract" and "like calls to like," and how each of them might look at Jungian cognitive types.

    35 min
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A podcast examining the meta-story of your life, whether it is serving you, and how to change it for the better. ...Come for the introspection, personal growth tools, social philosophy, and compassionate re-frames...stay for the side quests into non-linear time, life in an attention economy, the ethics of Sauron’s gaze, and why genre is a dialogue not a category.

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  • Creator
    Elena Wolf
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    51
  • Rating
    Explicit
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