A short potent book. One central question. — Pre-order now · Only 500 signed & numbered first editions
A short and potent book. One central question. Pre-order now

BRIDGE

The Intelligence We Forgot We Had
by Dr. Yemi Joy Penn

What intelligence have we forgotten in order to belong to the world we built?


AUD $49 + shipping · Signed & numbered first edition · Only 500

What BRIDGE is

BRIDGE is part memoir, part research, part rebellious inquiry — a short and potent book, that follows a central question into the places we've learned to stop looking. It's about what we quietly severed in order to fit the world we built, and what it might cost to remember.


The severances

Five things modern life taught us to separate.

01
Reason & intuition
02
Individual & collective
03
Human & environment
04
Past & possibility
05
Control & agency

Perhaps you've felt it too.

The quiet sense of having outsourced your own knowing. Of deciding by public consensus what your gut had already answered before you asked the world it's opinion. Of nodding along in rooms where the smartest thing you could offer was the thing you'd been trained to leave at the door.

You built a life that works. And still there's a part of you that keeps being asked to be a little less, more measured, more managed, more explainable until you can't quite remember what the wholesome version of you knew.

This book is for the part of you that seeks integration

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What Founding Readers receive
  • A signed & individually numbered first edition
  • A Founding Reader card, yours alone
  • Behind-the-scenes updates as the book is made
  • An invitation to a private online conversation with Dr. Yemi Joy Penn
Expected delivery: December 2026. 
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“Potent and powerful.” Dr. Marcus Ide · cognitive researcher
“It reads like a conversation you didn't know you were longing to have — and are glad you finally had.” Priya Anand · editor, The Longform Review
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The author

Dr. Yemi Joy Penn

Dr. Yemi Joy Penn is an engineer turned researcher, author, speaker and Cultural Alchemist whose work explores cultural trauma, transformation, human behaviour and the systems we inherit.

Her work sits at the intersection of ideas often kept separate: research and lived experience, science and intuition, individual and collective, structure and freedom.

BRIDGE brings these worlds together through multiple rebelliously curious questions

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What intelligence have we forgotten in order to belong to the world we built?


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