Sarah Perry (@sarahdoingthing), writer and thinker, joins Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

- Sarah’s writing career and what it means to “work through your politics” early in your career as a writer.

- The purpose of rituals and why democracy is itself a form of ritual.

- Why ambiguity increases meaning.

- What we as a culture don’t understand about meaning.

- The narrative illusion in life, that there’s “nothing but time” and that that is the place from which meaning comes.

- How to have non-zero-sum status in a society.

- What it means to make the “honest decision.”

- Why humor is so powerful.

- Why people (mistakenly) romanticize the past.

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Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.