The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens End of Year Reflections: Four Years of The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Dec 17, 2025 Nate reflects on four years of insightful discussions, tackling complex themes like agency, self-care, and societal change. He emphasizes the need for cognitive security in an age of misinformation and fragmentation. Conversations highlight the importance of local autonomy and scaling 'islands of coherence' into broader movements. Nate candidly shares his vulnerabilities and acknowledges limitations while focusing on meaningful progress. He outlines future plans, including educational content and a commitment to ongoing learning in a rapidly changing world.
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Seed Emergence, Not Just Policy
- Nate Hagens now sees emergence and changing initial conditions as the key lever for systemic change rather than top-down policy alone.
- He aims to seed plausible alternatives through education, pilots, networks, and conversations to shift future trajectories.
Begin With Grounded Agency
- Start change at the individual level by building grounded agency through self-care: sleep, exercise, nutrition, and spaciousness.
- Then develop epistemological skills and local autonomy to reduce dependence on the global economic superorganism.
Build An Epistemology Skillset
- Take Reality Base Camp training to improve cognitive security, combat misinformation, and practice transpartisan sensemaking.
- Learn filters for truth, varied information sources, and conversational skills to reduce polarization and epistemic fragility.