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What is Wandering?

For most of our history, we've practiced wandering as part of daily life... Letting intuition guide our movements to gather resources, gain knowledge, and connect with each other. You could even say it's what made us human.

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Wandering is Good for You

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Wandering is Revolutionary

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A Short History of Wandering

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Live on a Bigger Map

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Intuition

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Famous Wanderers

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How to Wander

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Which Wanderer are You?

3 Types of Wanders are Woven into Human History Take this quick quiz to find out your type. Results will appear on this page when you click submit. No need to subscribe.

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A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

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The great global experiment to find out if everybody in the world can live together in one place. So far, so good.

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A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

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101

Learn the basic skills of wandering, and discover why artists and thinkers across history have used wandering to gather data and make better decisions.

Art

Things people make. Sometimes they start out beautiful. Sometimes it takes them awhile to get that way.

BIG IDEAS

Core concepts of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Esoterica

The world is always bigger than we think it is. Outside, and inside too.

Film

The most powerful behavioral influence in history.

G.U.I.D.E

A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

Houses of Fire

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

Industrial Society

Exploring the history and shape of the industrial system, and how mining+agriculture+manufacturing+logistics influences our every thought and action.

Influence

Some influence is natural, and some is beneficial, and some is not.

INK

We can try to make the world small enough to understand, or we can get comfortable with uncertainty. That's the mission of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Intuition

Intuition is short-hand for the unconscious mind. It's your brain/body complexes ability to draw on resources your conscious cognition can't handle.

NYC

More than any other place on earth, New York City represents the pinnacle of Industrial Society, and the finest expression of the noble experiment to find out if all the peoples of earth can live together in one place.

101

Learn the basic skills of wandering, and discover why artists and thinkers across history have used wandering to gather data and make better decisions.

Art

Things people make. Sometimes they start out beautiful. Sometimes it takes them awhile to get that way.

BIG IDEAS

Core concepts of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Esoterica

The world is always bigger than we think it is. Outside, and inside too.

Film

The most powerful behavioral influence in history.

G.U.I.D.E

A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

Houses of Fire

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

Industrial Society

Exploring the history and shape of the industrial system, and how mining+agriculture+manufacturing+logistics influences our every thought and action.

Influence

Some influence is natural, and some is beneficial, and some is not.

INK

We can try to make the world small enough to understand, or we can get comfortable with uncertainty. That's the mission of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Intuition

Intuition is short-hand for the unconscious mind. It's your brain/body complexes ability to draw on resources your conscious cognition can't handle.

NYC

101

Learn the basic skills of wandering, and discover why artists and thinkers across history have used wandering to gather data and make better decisions.

Art

Things people make. Sometimes they start out beautiful. Sometimes it takes them awhile to get that way.

BIG IDEAS

Core concepts of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Esoterica

The world is always bigger than we think it is. Outside, and inside too.

Film

The most powerful behavioral influence in history.

G.U.I.D.E

A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

Houses of Fire

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

Industrial Society

Exploring the history and shape of the industrial system, and how mining+agriculture+manufacturing+logistics influences our every thought and action.

Influence

Some influence is natural, and some is beneficial, and some is not.

INK

We can try to make the world small enough to understand, or we can get comfortable with uncertainty. That's the mission of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Intuition

Intuition is short-hand for the unconscious mind. It's your brain/body complexes ability to draw on resources your conscious cognition can't handle.

NYC

101

Learn the basic skills of wandering, and discover why artists and thinkers across history have used wandering to gather data and make better decisions.

Art

Things people make. Sometimes they start out beautiful. Sometimes it takes them awhile to get that way.

BIG IDEAS

Core concepts of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Esoterica

The world is always bigger than we think it is. Outside, and inside too.

Film

The most powerful behavioral influence in history.

G.U.I.D.E

A low-impact, high-output strategy for leading people through territory.

Houses of Fire

A slowly unfurling model for building a better world by learning from the mistakes of the past and present.

Industrial Society

Exploring the history and shape of the industrial system, and how mining+agriculture+manufacturing+logistics influences our every thought and action.

Influence

Some influence is natural, and some is beneficial, and some is not.

INK

We can try to make the world small enough to understand, or we can get comfortable with uncertainty. That's the mission of the Institute of Not-Knowing.

Intuition

Intuition is short-hand for the unconscious mind. It's your brain/body complexes ability to draw on resources your conscious cognition can't handle.