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About This Podcast
Field Notes are short, unfinished audio observations.
Thinking made visible before it becomes doctrine.
They are not advice.
Not conclusions.
Not performance.
Each episode begins with something noticed and stays with it long enough to examine, test, and complicate it, without rushing to resolve it.
Some notes go nowhere.
Some later become structure.
Many won’t.
They sit under Second Dad, not alongside it.
Margin notes.
Not standards.
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Recent Episodes
S1E4 FIELD NOTES 005 - No Worries
Someone says “no worries” when there clearly were worries.Most of the time, the moment closes there.This Field Note isn’t about politeness, communication styles, or social habits.It’s about noticing…
S1E4 FIELD NOTES 004 - Valentine’s Day & Scripted Intimacy
Valentine’s Day offers a ready-made script for intimacy.You know what to do. You do it. And for a moment, something settles.This Field Note isn’t about romance, tradition, or whether the day is…
S1E3 FIELD NOTES 003 - Mini Roundabouts & Confident Confusion
A short observational note on mini roundabouts.Not about traffic law, but about what happens when certainty replaces attention.No advice. No resolution.
S1E2 FIELD NOTES 002 - Queues & the Hunger for Fairness
An observational audio note. No advice. No resolution.This episode sits with queues — and what fairness quietly provides when the world feels incoherent.
S1E1 FIELD NOTES 001 - Still Here
I went back to a motivational video I used to love.Not the video itself, the comments.People returning years later. Naming dreams. Naming pain. And then, again and again, writing the same two…
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Second Dad Field Notes has published 5 episodes since January 2026, covering topics in Philosophy, Society & Culture.
Second Dad Field Notes is currently moderate with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 5m.
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