Kate Bowler
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285 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2d ago
Kate Bowler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We you and I are both swimming against the current when we say that like uh people should begin with a healthy appreciation for uncertainty.
Cause I think particularly since the seventies, we have imagined the self as a a pretty self-making
uh project that that doesn't just have a a day.
They've got twenty four hours and a morning routine and and like a largely a framework for control.
Almost entirely.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I do think it puts delight in a different light because then the things that do come our way, I think we should let them light up the room more than they do.
Yeah.
Like I I think in this sort of like blase
Scroll to the next thing, really hope it's a comfortable jumpsuit kind of world.
I think it's getting harder and harder for us to be delighted.
One of the joy killers is not like if it's not sadness, the truth is it's very likely to be this flat routine set of expectations in which you're just going to earn your life and you're going
to like hyper plan and then you'll probably use AI agents for the rest.
But like it's it's really all the stuff in between that like is supposed to teach us more and more about just how like unusual
our particular human alchemy is.
Like what lights us up isn't just like what's good for you.
Like it we are bizarre.
And like what makes a life is what makes poetry and art and friendship.
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