building communities
Look for people who have lots of great questions. Smart people are the ones who ask the most thoughtful questions, as opposed to thinking they have all the answers. Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
every single one requires unlearning first. earnestness becomes possible when you stop performing certainty. learning in public stops being cringe when not-knowing stops being failure. the permission you never knew you needed was always there — you just learned, very thoroughly, to stop looking for it.
unlearning is the root system underneath... See more
unlearning is the root system underneath... See more
Keely • what does it mean to be a good host?
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
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
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
the 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
