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The Long Game: Civilization & Work

Podcast von Gregory Sparzo

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Geschichte & Religion

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The Long Game: Civilization & Work is a Humane Futures podcast about how our institutions, economies, and workplaces shape a humane—or inhumane—future. Host Gregory Sparzo, author of Tragedy & Work, Humane Hiring, and the forthcoming Humane Economics, talks with builders, skeptics, and practitioners about redesigning work at the scale of civilizations, not news cycles. If you still believe better systems won’t build themselves, this show is for you.

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The Spiritual Cost of Porfessional Success

This analysis explores how modern professional success often requires a systematic sacrifice of one's authentic self in exchange for institutional status. Using Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich as a foundation, the text argues that corporate culture merely rebrands this loss of identity as "engagement" or "alignment" rather than fixing the underlying problem. It suggests that individuals are often complicit in their own erasure, trading genuine human judgment for the hollow rewards of a high-ranking career. True clarity often only arrives when the institutional scaffolding collapses, forcing a person to confront who they are without their professional title. Ultimately, the source serves as a warning that winning the game of status may result in a life that is fundamentally empty.

14. Mai 2026 - 21 min
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Designing for Sinners, not Saints

Today's episode is entitled Designing for Sinners, Not Saints. Most initiatives fail not because the people involved are incompetent, and not because their intentions are bad. They fail because of a particular kind of naïveté — one that is easy to miss precisely because it sounds like wisdom. It's the assumption of shared vision. The belief that if we simply get the right people in the room, align around a common goal, and communicate clearly enough, the system will move in the direction we intend. It won't. Not reliably. Not in a world of asymmetric power. When people occupy different positions in a hierarchy — with different incentives, different risks, and different definitions of what winning looks like — the assumption that we are all pulling toward the same outcome is not optimism. It is a design flaw. And like most design flaws, it doesn't announce itself. It hides inside the language of collaboration, until the initiative collapses and everyone wonders why. The answer, almost always, is that the design was built for saints. And saints, it turns out, are in short supply. Good institutional design doesn't assume virtue. It accounts for human nature as it actually presents itself — self-interested, status-conscious, risk-averse, and politically aware — and builds structures that make cooperation the rational choice even for people who weren't planning to cooperate.

8. Mai 2026 - 26 min
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