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LOST Video I: Destiny or Delusion—an Anna Kendrick Question
This was supposed to be a short follow-up to the interview I did with Byron Reese. Instead, it turned into a freewheeling conversation about some of the big questions I've wrestled with for over 10 years: Is there really purpose, love, and destiny? If so, how do we find those things in a world gone mad, and how does politics fit into the story, if at all?
Wait, who does that as a response to a book interview?! Is this what happens when someone is too much of a LOST fan?!
Normally I'd object to such imagined questions. Rude! But there is that title, and It is Christmas. Check out the intro video for more of an explanation.
Sharing this now because soon I'll need to make some decisions about what comes next, and that includes whether or not to keep the podcast going and in what form. So I figured I'd post the videos as podcast episodes, just in case doing so can help clarify things for me and for any of you wrestling with similar questions.
This wouldn't be a Christmas-minded story without a guiding spirit or a star of wonder to point the path to a better way, so there's some of that as well. Oh, and there are also a couple of scattered references to the TV show LOST …
The story is best experienced as a video series, and Episodes 2 & 3 are only available as video links.
Watch the series:
https://podcast.nsavides.com/lostvideos
Episode video links
LOST Videos Intro
https://vimeo.com/nsavides/lostvideosintro
LOST Video I: Destiny or Delusion—an Anna Kendrick Question
https://vimeo.com/nsavides/lostvideoi
LOST Video II: Coincidence or Connection—Taylor Swift/Anna Kendrick, JFK/CS Lewis, & Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://vimeo.com/nsavides/lostvideoii
LOST Video III: Defending Elon Musk, Reevaluating Tom Hanks & Stephen King
https://x.com/nsavidesPRO/status/1986560074509344967?s=20
Say hello:
podcast@nsavides.com
Merry Christmas everyone!
25 Dec 2025
LOST Videos Intro: Anna Kendrick, Taylor Swift, and Elon Musk, a Strange Christmas Story
This was supposed to be a short follow-up to the interview I did with Byron Reese. Instead, it turned into a freewheeling conversation about some of the big questions I've wrestled with for over 10 years: Is there really purpose, love, and destiny? If so, how do we find those things in a world gone mad, and how does politics fit into the story, if at all?
Wait, who does that as a response to a book interview?! Is this what happens when someone is too much of a LOST fan?!
Normally I'd object to such imagined questions. Rude! But there is that title, and it is Christmas. OK let me explain in this introduction.
Sharing this now because soon I'll need to make some decisions about what comes next, and that includes whether or not to keep the podcast going and in what form. So I figured I'd post the videos as podcast episodes, just in case doing so can help clarify things for me and for any of you wrestling with similar questions.
This wouldn't be a Christmas-minded story without a guiding spirit or a star of wonder to point the path to a better way, so there's some of that as well. Oh, and there are also a couple of scattered references to the TV show LOST …
The story is best experienced as a video series, and Episodes 2 & 3 are only available as video links.
Watch the series:
https://podcast.nsavides.com/lostvideos
Episode video links
LOST Videos Intro
https://vimeo.com/nsavides/lostvideosintro
LOST Video I: Destiny or Delusion—an Anna Kendrick Question
https://vimeo.com/nsavides/lostvideoi
LOST Video II: Coincidence or Connection—Taylor Swift/Anna Kendrick, JFK/CS Lewis, & Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://vimeo.com/nsavides/lostvideoii
LOST Video III: Defending Elon Musk, Reevaluating Tom Hanks & Stephen King
https://x.com/nsavidesPRO/status/1986560074509344967?s=20
Say hello:
podcast@nsavides.com
Merry Christmas everyone!
24 Sept 2024
Beehives, Greek Wisdom, & Invisible Hands: Pursuing Emergent Optimism with Byron Reese Part I
Byron Reese is a futurist and an optimist. His new book We Are Agora: How Humanity Functions as a Single Superorganism That Shapes Our World and Our Future is named after the Ancient Greek marketplace and suggests that we might be part of a bigger entity that shapes our ends.
Does the book have the insights we need to revitalize a sense of optimism even amidst dystopian times though?
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