> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://intend-to-relate.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Join us on Volume Three: To Them - URL: https://intend-to-relate.ghost.io/join-us-on-volume-three-to-them/ - Published: 2026-11-04T06:23:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-04T06:24:33.000Z - Author: Intend to Relate - Tags: News, Volume 3: To Them, Podcasts ### a Meta-cast by Intend to Relate ### Listen on [Spotify ](https://open.spotify.com/show/2e1V9Ybpp95FWG0YM4EwoU?si=a996e155f728492e&ref=intend-to-relate.ghost.io)· Apple · [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBPyUWfLkMX4&ref=intend-to-relate.ghost.io) Who are we addressing when we speak to “them”? An audience, a community, a group we hope to join. People we have encountered but barely understand. Others we imagine might someday become friends, partners, collaborators, or participants in something we are building. **Volume Three: To Them** opens another path through the developing Intend to Relate framework. Here, we turn toward others whose presence, intentions, and relationship to us may remain uncertain. What do we actually know about them? What have we supplied through expectation or imagination? And what would allow a possible relationship to become an encounter between people? The conversation is already underway. This entry provides a place to enter it. ## Where we begin Season One is **“Encountering Crowds, Apprehending Clouds.”** We begin with the experience of creating and publishing work for people we may never meet. Podcasting gives us an immediate setting in which to examine the relationship while participating in it. Someone speaks. A recording becomes available. People may listen. A platform reports activity. What relationship has taken shape? An audience can appear to us as a single entity: “they” listened, “they” liked it, “they” did not respond. Yet the people gathered under that description may have little in common. They may have encountered different pieces of the work, brought different questions, and understood very different things. The crowd gives us something to encounter. Apprehending the people within it requires further work. That distinction leads us into questions about presence, absence, and the understandings we construct when another person’s response is unavailable. Silence leaves much unresolved. We may know that something was published or played while knowing very little about the person on the other side. How do we remain open to an encounter without filling that uncertainty with an invented relationship? ## The work, the platform, and the people Our developing reflections also examine the relationships surrounding publication. A creator has purposes for making and sharing work. A platform organizes its distribution and reports certain kinds of activity. Individual viewers and listeners bring purposes of their own. Those relationships need to be considered separately before we can understand how they interact. Publishing can build a record, preserve an idea, develop a body of work, or make a future encounter possible. Someone may discover a piece long after it was created. The work can have a purpose before its eventual participants become known. Meanwhile, a follow, a passing view, or a few seconds of listening tells us relatively little about what someone understands. A person encountering scattered excerpts may not yet have the vocabulary or context to connect them. Another may spend considerable time with the material without making their presence known. We have to leave room for both possibilities. These questions bring us toward the conditions of understanding: attention, context, pace, inquiry, and the effort involved in encountering a developing body of thought. They also return us to the individual. What did this person encounter? What did they make of it? What might they wish to ask or offer in response? ## A path through the work *To Them* is a meta-cast accompanying the development of the **forthcoming third volume of the Intend to Relate canon**. The original *Intend to Relate Podcast* develops the broader vocabulary and framework. *To Them* turns that inquiry toward plural, distant, uncertain, and hoped-for others. The creator–audience relationship provides an opening experiment. The questions extend into communities, groups, possible friendships, future partnerships, and relationships that have not yet acquired a clear form. They also reach into our own relational consciousness: how we orient ourselves toward other people before we understand who they are or what might become possible between us. We will move between reflection and application—examining the relationships we imagine, the encounters we actually have, and the conditions under which a shared understanding might develop. Your experience belongs in that inquiry. You may recognize a distinction, question an assumption, or find that something important has been left out. ## Where should I start? Begin with the opening conversations in **Season One: “Encountering Crowds, Apprehending Clouds.”** Then continue into the developing reflections on audiences, platforms, attention, and encounter. For the broader foundations, Season One of the original *Intend to Relate Podcast* introduces the shared vocabulary and orientation. Bring your judgment with you. Notice what you know about another person, what remains uncertain, and what you may have imagined in the space between. And let us hear from you. A thought, a question, a disagreement, or a friendly provocation can give us something more definite to work with. You can reach out as an individual, in your own words, about the part of the work that met you. **Join us for Volume Three: To Them.** **Be free, and be good to each other—intentionally.**