Friday Mar 13, 2026
S62E10 Ego: thank you for listening
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Thursday Mar 12, 2026
Thursday Mar 12, 2026
A summary of some of what we’ve discussed this series plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk Club.
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Wednesday Mar 11, 2026
Wednesday Mar 11, 2026
In today’s episode, a walk in the woods discussing Ursula Le Guin’s discussion of ego in ‘The Dispossed’.
On Le Guin’s fictional planet, Annares, humans in an egalitarian society are ostracised for ‘egoising’.
Egoising is an inevitable corrollary to the struggle between community and a sense of self. Le Guin does not describe it as a moral failing, just a tension.
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Tuesday Mar 10, 2026
Tuesday Mar 10, 2026
Considering different types of ego this lunchtime including Clyde Barrow’s inability to admit defeat.
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Monday Mar 09, 2026
Monday Mar 09, 2026
Discussing Alan Watts today who wrote that viewing ourselves inside the head, as an ego, is a ‘dangerous hallucination’.
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Friday Mar 06, 2026
Friday Mar 06, 2026
Everything we’ve discussed so far this week, plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club.
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Thursday Mar 05, 2026
Thursday Mar 05, 2026
Discussing various leaders and how ego drives behaviour this lunchtime.
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Wednesday Mar 04, 2026
Wednesday Mar 04, 2026
Welcome to your walk, and episode 3 of our new series on the theme of Ego.
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Tuesday Mar 03, 2026
Tuesday Mar 03, 2026
Introducing Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex and Hanlon’s razor.
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