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Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re continuing our series on The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today with Susanne Paola Antonetta. Last episode, we explored consciousness, the early history of psychiatric care, the rise of eugenics, and the lives of Paul Schreber and Dorothea Buck. In Part 2, we enter one of the darkest chapters of the book: the Nazi killing programs, the medical institutions that enabled them, and the struggle...

Welcome to Readerzz! Today we’re kicking off a new series on The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry’s Troubled History Reverberates Today with Susanne Paola Antonetta. Susanne is an award-winning poet, memoirist, and essayist whose work explores consciousness, mental illness, neurodiversity, science, and what it feels like to live inside an unusual mind. In this book, she takes us into one of the darkest chapters in medical history, but she also asks a deeply human ...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re closing out our series on Living Systems Leadership with Nate Payne. Across the first two episodes, we built the core idea of the book: leadership is not just a role you perform, but a system you design. We looked at how authority, information, culture, responsibility, conflict, resilience, coordination, and trust move through an organization. In Part 3, we bring all of those ideas together and ask what kind of system can actually outlast the leader. This...

Welcome back to Readerzz! Today we’re continuing our series on Living Systems Leadership with Nate Payne. Last episode, we built the foundation: leadership is not just a role you perform, but a system you design. In Part 2, we take that idea further by asking what happens when an organization is under pressure. This episode gets into the patterns that show up when teams have to move, adapt, and make decisions without everything flowing through one person. We talk about recurring conflict, the...

Welcome to Readerzz! Today we’re kicking off a new series on Living Systems Leadership with Nate Payne. Nate is a leadership advisor, speaker, and author whose work helps leaders build teams and organizations that can adapt, recover, and grow stronger in the face of constant change. His core idea is that leadership is not just a role you perform. It is a system you design. And the best systems designer we can learn from is nature itself. In Part 1, we build the foundation of that idea. We tal...