# Episode 312-What Matters

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Podcast: [The Natural Curiosity Project](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-natural-curiosity-project-1154510)
Published: 2026-01-07T16:14:50+00:00
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Duration seconds: 607

## Resource

Do the actions of a single individual matter? If you subscribe to the fundamental tenets of negativism, pessimism, resignation, and snark, the answer to that question is decidedly ‘no.’ But let’s reconsider that.

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