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“Today’s future-positive writers critique our economies while largely seeming to ignore that anything might be amiss in our private lives,” writes Kristen Ghodsee. Even our most ambitious visions of utopia tend to focus on outcomes that can be achieved through public policy — things like abundant clean energy or liberation from employment — while ignoring many of the aspects of our lives that matter to us the most: how we live, raise our children, and tend to our most meaningful relationships.

Ghodsee’s new book, “Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life,” is an attempt to change that. The book is a tour of radical social experiments from communes and ecovillages to “platonic parenting” and intentional communities. But, on a deeper level, it’s a critique of the way existing structures of family and community life have left so many of us devoid of care and connection, and a vision of what it could mean to organize our lives differently.

Mentioned:

“The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake” by David Brooks

Saving Time by Jenny Odell

Book Recommendations:

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin

Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott

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Molly is back for a HUGE news days! Adam Neumann has raised $350M from a16z for his new startup Flow (2:14), and his main investor, Marc Andreessen, got into some hot water over housing policy hypocrisy! (22:05)

(0:00) Molly is back! J+M intro today's topics!

(2:14) Jason and Molly catch up Molly's vacation and the craziness of the past week

(12:36) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at https://linkedin.com/twist 

(13:56) Adam Neumann's new residential real estate company Flow has raised $350M from a16z at a valuation over $1B!

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(22:05) Marc Andreessen's blog explaining a16z's Flow investment, Jason and Molly go deep on potential business plans for Flow and why a16z made this bet

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(35:56) Marc Andreessen's housing hypocrisy

(53:35) Jason reads slides from the leaked Flow deck *JOKE*, another a16z portfolio founder in a similar market as Flow chimed in on Twitter