Examples of Deep Takes on Hot Takes.
Here are some submissions for inspiration.
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we’re endorsing the process of engaging them thoughtfully and openly)
SHORTER
Emotional Processing Harms Relationship
- Hannah Taylor
We're putting software in places it doesn't belong
- Isaac
You're codependent but luckily codependency isn't bad
- Michael Blas
Shame is a beautiful emotion that points us towards love
- zookatron
Digital Mystics: AI, Love & Spirit CAN Dance Together Harmoniously
- leifhansen
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, probably via use of the word "optics" ;)
- Blake Borgeson
Thank God Coaching isn't Regulated: The Free Market Correction of The Coaching Industry
- Forrest Wilson
Hot Take: You're doing sex wrong. Deep Take: What I wish everyone knew about the emotional presence, physical skill, and energetic magnitude of blissful, fulfilling sex.
- Annabeth Novitzki
White people moving to Costa Rica or Mexico is, fundamentally, the same as latinos immigrating to America
- Holy Mama
Creative thinking needs to be taught and valued as highly as smart thinking, right thinking, and ethical thinking.
— Julia Hicks
The most important thing to do is be kind to yourself.
— Richard Hansen
Secrets are being revealed while they are still meaningful
- Barbara Samson
The fantasy isn't about power, it's about identity
- Pete
It is good to be apolitical
- S
“Far right” is right on: Integrating “far right” concepts is the best spiritual growth for most liberals.
- Warkmalsh
Metal is the most mature music out there; not only is is technically impressive, it's a very clear expression of human emotionality
- Anonymous
We're more like dogs than computers, therefore we have more to learn about personal growth and communication from dog-training than logic
- Anonymous
Powerlifting is about self-transcendence to inhabiting, not looking good or winning.
- Anonymous
LONGER
- Dr. Frank Allen
Where is free will?
“We have very little say over what happens in our lives. We have absolutely say what our experience of that is. Not being in touch with this, we blame other people, politicians, circumstances for our suffering and continue to suffer. Realizing this, we can find peace even in extreme hardships.”
- Dr. Frank Allen
Deep Take on a Hot Take (Systemic): The American political system thrives on greed, inequality, and corruption—realities that transcend party lines. The division between left and right isn’t just ideological; it’s a mechanism of control. By stoking conflict, the system distracts from real structural change, keeping citizens focused on fighting each other while democracy erodes beneath them.
I Project My Own Accountability Failures on Trump
Hot Take: Donald Trump is a direct threat to democracy—not just in the U.S., but globally. His obsession with power, fueled by narcissism and greed, remains unchecked, and if it continues, the world as we know it may unravel.
Deep Take on a Hot Take (Systemic): The American political system thrives on greed, inequality, and corruption—realities that transcend party lines. The division between left and right isn’t just ideological; it’s a mechanism of control. By stoking conflict, the system distracts from real structural change, keeping citizens focused on fighting each other while democracy erodes beneath them.
Deep Take on a Hot Take (Personal): My fixation on external systems—government corruption, political dysfunction, and institutional greed—mirrors my own avoidance of internal accountability. It’s easier to blame the world’s problems on corrupt leaders and corporations than to confront my own tendencies toward greed, control, and complacency. If I don’t take responsibility for my own role in the world’s dysfunction, then I, like the system I criticize, am complicit in its decline.
- Noah Manning
- Anonymous
Community Building as Process not Outcome
(post)modern people don't know how to build community, and their efforts predictably fail. Here are a few of the reasons I can see, what are some you see? People (1) expect things too fast instead of process-orientation a la Christopher Alexander, (2) expect things too easy instead of putting their sweat equity in, and (3) people think they have to sacrifice themselves for others, or others for themselves, instead of looking for where both win
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Foreign Policy Privilege
Americans don't think enough about foreign policy. We're ironically worried about privilege, but this is the biggest privilege of all. Deeper cut—when we divorce ourselves from our more base, animal nature we undercut the foundations of the society that can be more inclusive."
- Anonymous
Data privacy isn't a luxury, it's a basic ethical commitment like 'don't steal.' Crypto is probably a part of the solution, but it is not THE solution. Our failure to understand this is not because we're bad, but because we haven't grown up yet as a society.
- Anonymous
What is the absense of a "negative" emotion when one is in a habit/addition to that emotion. For example, do we call in shame becasue the absence of it is too unsettling. #deeptakes
- Yvonne Sherajoy
QUESTION-TAKES
What makes good "holding environments" and why are they so important?
- Josefine Roeding
As cities like Austin cater to coastal transplants, their unique culture gets diluted, becoming more generic. Is cultural entropy inevitable, or is there a counterforce?
- Anton Brevde