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The Wake Up Call

A newsletter exploring the psychology of meaning, acceleration and modern ambition.

Newsletter · By Scott Barker · English · Official site

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Sep 23, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    The lessons I keep forgetting (opens the original)

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    🌒🌓🌔Welcome to edition #24 of The Wake Up Call, this week I write about:Ten lessons that I learned from leaving everything I know behind, selling everything I own, getting really still/silent for a year and now re-emerging back into this wild world This newsletter is for anyone looking to better prepare for the future. And for those who want to lead happier, healthier, more meaningful lives. The Wake Up Call

  2. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    The end of understanding (opens the original)

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    🌒🌓🌔Welcome to edition #23 of The Wake Up Call, this week I write about:Artificial intelligence can now make discoveries that work, can be validated, proven, but remain permanently beyond human understanding. In this essay I explore what a world looks like without understanding. This newsletter is for anyone looking to better prepare for the future. For those who want to lead happier, healthier, more meaningful lives. Essays exploring the psychology of meaning, technology and how we begin to buil

  3. Issue · Aug 10, 2026

    The age after intelligence (opens the original)

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    🌒🌓🌔Welcome to edition #22 of The Wake Up Call, this week I write about:Exploring what remains when machines outthink the ‘thinking human’, and why intuition, faith, wisdom and our responsibility to understand reality for ourselves matter more than ever.This newsletter is for anyone looking to lead a happier, healthier, more meaningful life. Stories exploring the psychology of meaning, technology and how we begin to build a better future together. Each wee

  4. Issue · Jul 23, 2026

    The sickness that runs the world (opens the original)

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    🌒🌓🌔Welcome to edition #21 of The Wake Up Call, this week I write about:A fictional story set in the year 2066 where the world has broken into four distinct classes ruled by those who have The Sickness This newsletter is for anyone looking to lead a happier, healthier, more meaningful life. Stories exploring the psychology of meaning, technology and how we begin to build a better future together. Each week I write one non-fiction essay for the mind or one fiction story for the soul.<div class="s

  5. Issue · Jul 7, 2026

    How to survive (and thrive) in the acceleration era (opens the original)

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    🌒🌓🌔Welcome to edition #20 of The Wake Up Call, this week I write about:How humanity has become obsessed with technologies that compress time, how we’ve forgotten about technologies that expand it and experiments that can return us to balance. This newsletter is for anyone looking to lead a happier, healthier, more meaningful life. Stories exploring the psychology of meaning, technology and how we begin to build a better future together. Each week I write one non-fiction essay for the mind or one

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