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On July 4, 1845, eight days before his twenty-eighth birthday, Henry David Thoreau embarked on an experiment in simple living using a property owned by his transcendentalist mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. On the shores of Walden Pond, a thirty-one meter deep lake in Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau built a modest cabin, where he would spend the next two years of his life, writing, meditating and reflecting on popular society as he saw it.
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Clements, R. (2014). Embracing Experimentation, Failure, and Leading a Tribe. In: Unsuited. Transgressions, vol 101. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-647-9_5
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