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CORRECTION 🤙🏼 Call Details: Against Identity w/ Alexander Douglas 11/21 @ 10 am Mountain Time

Join us in the cloud of unknowing...one hour earlier than originally advertised.

Michael Garfield
Nov 20, 2025
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Sorry about this last (I swear) rescheduling! Due to a last-minute calendar pile-up on our guest’s end, we’re doing this at TEN am MT, not ELEVEN am MT.

Alex Douglas also sends his apologies. We collectively blame daylight savings translation between the US and Scotland and I personally (if not credibly) point the finger at a particularly vicious Mercury Retrograde.

f you can still make it, we’ll have a great time. If you can’t, this conversation will be recorded and Alex, who is in our Discord server, will hopefully be able to address any lingering post-game questions in the members book discussion channel.

Reminder that tomorrow, we sit down with the estimable (although also somewhat elusive, mysterious, and undefinable)

Alexander Douglas
to explore the ideas in and around his book, Against Identity!

All paid members are welcome to sit in, even if you haven’t finished the book.

Call details behind the paywall below.

A short refresher on why this is the right bundle of ideas to explore right now:

📚😶‍🌫️ Our Next Book Club: Against Identity by Alexander Douglas

Michael Garfield
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Oct 22
📚😶‍🌫️ Our Next Book Club: Against Identity by Alexander Douglas

“The ethical ideal is not to replace a conformist identity with an individual one. It is to get rid of identity altogether.”

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Format: recorded Google Meet video call, which I’ll open with a short dialogue before we clear the floor for everyone else’s questions and comments. Here are a few light teasers for how I imagine we’ll focus the chat, with plenty of room for surprising and delightful moments of collective intelligence:

And here’s another fun recent podcast with Alex about the book I’m sure to reference:

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