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My walking meetings tend to feel more conversational, exploratory, and creativity-inclined than Zoom meetings. I can engage for longer without feeling burned out. And there’s the obvious benefit of increased physical activity.

We listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard.

But these examples aren’t quite what I’m aiming for. I want something smaller, more intimate, more regular. Not meeting someone you like and only managing to run into them once every three months, but creating regular, meaningful connections.

3. Skills alignment

This pattern raises a question: is centralization just a natural tendency of all networks? Are we destined to have a "decentralization sandwich," where there's a hard-to-change set of protocols, something open built on top of that, and a series of closed systems built on top of that, which are the only ones the average person interacts with?