Maria Popova

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931 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman · Maria Popova · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Well, not consciously, certainly, but now that you ask me this, I am realizing I am a person who has been dislocated since very early childhood.

My early childhood was marked by me being sort of sent— Abandoned.

Well, I don't— Interpretive.

Interpretive.

I'm taking some poetic lessons here.

You know, I don't want to do the kind of, you know, competitive suffering we live in now.

But I was sent—I was apart from my parents a lot.

I was in many different places.

And then I, by choice, at 19, dislocated myself across the ocean.

And even now, I live different parts of the earth, very faraway places.

I do think place and personhood entwine in a meaningful way.

We become who and what we are.

I mean, we're animals who are still shaped by their habitat, and we are different animals in different habitats.

There is a kind of compass of searching for how to be by where to be.

Yes, I think it's the bridge, our only bridge between the known and the unknown.

And it is a ramshackle bridge because a lot may just be unknowable.

But curiosity is this idealistic, optimistic orientation that the universe can be known, even by creatures that are a function of it.

Very much so.

I think it's so important to understand the price at which knowledge is obtained and also the fact that the hunger for truth grows.

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