building communities
Enclaves that encourage curiosity open people up for personal engagement. Within enclaves, people witness others doing the same. Consider offering people the infrastructure, attention, and encouragement to relate and document their own personal experiences with reality.
We’ve already touched upon a few ways to build enclaves: spark curiosity through... See more
We’ve already touched upon a few ways to build enclaves: spark curiosity through... See more
Matt Klein • Reality Somms: How to Cultivate A Discipline of Knowing What’s Real
this is actually so true that people don’t join run clubs for running. In fact, they could hate running but still want that opportunity to hang out and mingle (and might as well be fit)
4. Conversation allows us to think together.
Philosophy and literature encourage us to question everything and ask, in particular, the big “untimely questions.” If we enter them not with the aim to convert the other but to possibly be converted ourselves, conversations can unlock our best collective thinking and serve as the source code for... See more
Philosophy and literature encourage us to question everything and ask, in particular, the big “untimely questions.” If we enter them not with the aim to convert the other but to possibly be converted ourselves, conversations can unlock our best collective thinking and serve as the source code for... See more
3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings
ted.comthe three steps
Embrace a disputable, specific purpose
Host good controversy
Create a temporary alternate universe through the use of pop-up rules
FYI: a core ingredient of meaning is heat
the future won’t be rebuilt by algorithms or governments. it gets rebuilt the way everything good gets rebuilt — at human scale, with the people actually around you, one front porch at a time.
Keely • hey so we're hosting a funeral
Our online environments only appear infinite. The deepest, most nuanced knowledge still lives beyond any device. Everything we see through search, social media, or AI is limited to what has already been indexed, posted or trained. For example, Google may index hundreds of billions of web pages, yet that still accounts for <5% of the internet.... See more
Matt Klein • The Art of (Attention) War
the spoken word, community circles become rich wells of knowledge
We need the weeping, the 3 am whisperings, the downpours or the dancing until you’ve sweat through your clothes and your skin and the stitches holding it all together.
We need to be fed.
So feed us.
We need to be fed.
So feed us.
Instructions for hunger
