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Home Page: https://notes.lifeitself.org/
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In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Oct 25, 2019, 16:15
Curriculum Guidelines of 12-Year Basic Education - General Guidelines
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Mar 20, 2021, 22:14
Originally created: March 2020
When coming to Life Itself, whether as investor, hub member, team member, or other interested party, I want to know who they are, what they believe, what they do and how they do it, so I can see whether Life Itself is right for me and how I can participate further.
Full job stories, content map etc in this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xtb46pYLNDeetsxCCd-3-8K2ancsnfgUXK7dGYpXnL0/edit#gid=0
Overview of content structure: https://coggle.it/diagram/XwV93bXjqAex-HlD/t/tao-content-structure-👣-mvp-of-the-tao
Misc
graph TD
subgraph New Joiner
working[Working With Us]
systems[Key Systems]
tools[Key Tools]
gsd[Getting Stuff Done]
pre[Prerequisites]
narr[Narrative]
pre --> working
subgraph Practicalities
working --> systems
systems --> tools
tools --> gsd
end
gsd --> principles
subgraph CultureX
principles --> narr
end
end
graph TD
subgraph Hub Member
member[Hub Member]
principles2[Principles]
member --> What[What is a Hub<br/>Where, costs, people, timetable]
What --> Why[Why Hubs<br/>How do they fit into our bigger vision / mission]
Why --> principles2
principles2 --> Practices
Practices --> Governance
Governance --> Agreement[Agreement<br/>What is expected of me, what can i expect]
Agreement --> Coliving[Coliving<br/>Background on coliving background at life itself]
end
v1
graph TD
overview[Overview - maybe front page]
specific[Specific areas e.g. Hubs]
initiatives[Initiatives]
culture[Culture]
overview --> specific
specific --> initiatives
initiatives --> culture
v2
graph TD
hubs[lifeitself.us/hubs]
business[lifeitself.us/businesses]
research[lifeitself.us/research]
activism[lifeitself.us/activism]
people[lifeitself.us/people]
collaborators[lifeitself.us/collaborators]
blog[life itself blog]
history[lifeitself.us/history]
involved[hubs, jobs and contact website pages]
About --> hubs
hubs --> business
business --> research
research --> activism
activism --> initiatives
initiatives --> plans
plans --> people
people --> collaborators
collaborators --> SCQH
SCQH --> culture
culture --> blog
blog --> history
history --> involved
involved --> governance
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Sep 8, 2019, 08:49
https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
$1k a month for every adult american.
He doesn't provide a lot of detail afaict. A good set of FAQs more focused on the political than the details e.g.
Isn’t this Communism/Socialism?
No. Communism is, by definition, a revolutionary movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order built upon shared ownership of production. With Socialism, the core principle is the nationalization of the means of production – i.e. the government seizes Amazon and Google. The Freedom Dividend is none of those things and actually fits so seamlessly into capitalism, it is projected to grow the economy $2.5 trillion in eight years.
Really, the Freedom Dividend is necessary for the continuation of capitalism through the automation wave and displacement of workers. Markets need consumers to sell things to. The Freedom Dividend is capitalism with a floor that people cannot fall beneath
Summary: $3tn needed, 1/3 or which unexplained and 1/3 depends on generous economic growth projections
He estimates that $150bn - $450bn (?? - second number he does not specify) comes in savings from current spending and rest is new spending. This represents ~60% increase in the federal budget as of 2018.
~240m americans over 18 in 2019 (234m according to census https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf and now 9m more in total since 2010 or which > 60% are over 18)
240m * 12k = ~$3tn (current US GDP in 2019 was 19tn so this is around 10% of GDP)
Propose paying for this via 10% VAT + replacing current welfare.
Here's how he proposes to pay for it:
How would we pay for the Freedom Dividend?
It would be easier than you might think. Andrew proposes funding the Freedom Dividend by consolidating some welfare programs and implementing a Value-Added Tax (VAT) of 10%. Current welfare and social program beneficiaries would be given a choice between their current benefits or $1,000 cash unconditionally – most would prefer cash with no restriction.
A Value-Added Tax (VAT) is a tax on the production of goods or services a business produces. It is a fair tax and it makes it much harder for large corporations, who are experts at hiding profits and income, to avoid paying their fair share. A VAT is nothing new. 160 out of 193 countries in the world already have a Value-Added Tax or something similar, including all of Europe which has an average VAT of 20 percent.
The means to pay for the Freedom Dividend will come from 4 sources:
- Current spending. We currently spend between $500 and $600 billion a year on welfare programs, food stamps, disability and the like. This reduces the cost of the Freedom Dividend because people already receiving benefits would have a choice but would be ineligible to receive the full $1,000 in addition to current benefits.
Additionally, we currently spend over one trillion dollars on health care, incarceration, homelessness services and the like. We would save $100 – 200+ billion as people would take better care of themselves and avoid the emergency room, jail, and the street and would generally be more functional. The Freedom Dividend would pay for itself by helping people avoid our institutions, which is when our costs shoot up. Some studies have shown that $1 to a poor parent will result in as much as $7 in cost-savings and economic growth.
A VAT. Our economy is now incredibly vast at $19 trillion, up $4 trillion in the last 10 years alone. A VAT at half the European level would generate $800 billion in new revenue. A VAT will become more and more important as technology improves because you cannot collect income tax from robots or software.
New revenue. Putting money into the hands of American consumers would grow the economy. The Roosevelt Institute projected that the economy would grow by approximately $2.5 trillion and create 4.6 million new jobs. This would generate approximately $800 – 900 billion in new revenue from economic growth and activity.
Taxes on top earners and pollution. By removing the Social Security cap, implementing a financial transactions tax, and ending the favorable tax treatment for capital gains/carried interest, we can decrease financial speculation while also funding the Freedom Dividend. We can add to that a carbon fee that will be partially dedicated to funding the Freedom Dividend, making up the remaining balance required to cover the cost of this program.
Summarizing
Current spending: ?? unclear how much he reckons we would save out of $500-600bn on current welfare. He estimates $100-200bn from savings due to lower costs elsewhere in the system.
VAT: $800bn in new revenue. (assume no displacement here -- though he does seem to imply falling income taxes happening anyway)
Economic Growth: $800-900bn. This is one to be sceptical of as it is a) hypothetical b) almost always optimistic c) so often used -- it is the go to device new policy proposers on right and left - give out a massive tax cut, no problem the economy will grow so much will have more tax revenue!
Tax on top earners and polluters: this will pay an unspecified amount but one sufficient to make up the balance. Estimates on pollution tax suggest maybe ~$250bn but he does not specify this so I'm cautious (see further analysis below)
Adding it up we have: $1.8tn defined (of which $850bn is hypothetical from growth) + unspecified savings in welfare + unspecified tax. Welfare is max $300bn (upper bound of 50% of current $600bn as a good amount of that spend is stuff like medicare that won't be substituted). This leaves $900bn gap plus potentially generous assumption of $850bn in economic growth (which would take time to happen anyway).
US Federal budget for 2018 had $4.1tn in spending and $3.3t in income.
Assuming generous numbers for savings in spending, Yang's proposal implies at least $2.5tn increase in federal budget spending. This is around 50% increase in the federal budget.
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/carbon-fee-dividend/
As President, I will…
Propose a carbon fee and dividend system that:
Sets an initial carbon tax of $40/ton, which would increase in regular intervals.
Use that tax to fund, after administrative fees:
(50%) The Universal Basic Income
(50%) Projects that are enhancing efficiency of fossil fuels or increasing availability of renewable resources
Create a border carbon adjustment to protect American goods that would:
Charge a fee on imports from countries that don’t impose a similar carbon fee, or some type of carbon tax.
Provide a rebate on exports to countries that don’t impose a similar carbon fee, or some type of carbon tax.
Emissions in the US in 2017 were 5.7bn tonnes of CO2 equivalents1.
At $40 a tonne this => ~$250bn in revenue. (Though it may also mean some higher energy prices - i guess this is offset by the freedom dividend).
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/financial-transaction-tax/
Propose a 0.1% financial transaction tax that would raise as much as $50 billion per year that will be used to help fund Universal Basic Income.
Motivated by question from Trip in Aug 2021. Generally relevant point to reflect on.
Basic point: Iteration of (hypo)theses
Qu: what have we learnt from doing our conscious coliving experiments at Life Iteslf?
Patterns
We (esp Liam) did a bunch of ideation and writing around this. Let's get it posted as a "big idea" or similar.
...
Emerge is taking place in Berlin and several members of community are attending and it is location of Life Itself Berlin Hub!
Post up "transforming the narrative" (big vision conversation) SCQH and analysis on tao (and blog)
Could back-post to when we wrote it (july 2020)
/scqh/
(i think) Donehttps://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes - good analysis and reference
Context: Primacy of Being is a key tenet of Life Itself's approach (e.g. ref'd in SCQH etc) yet quite a subtle point that is easily misunderstood (e.g. "be the change you want to see" or "you are a human being not a human doing"). It also involves major points of our political philosophy regarding both the focus and means of social transformation.
Hypothesis tree: We should prioritize “being” (i.e. left quadrants) over matter (technology or structural/systems change) in pursuing the transformation needed to address the metacrisis/polycrisis …
Notes: could start the piece with the story of the sorcerer’s apprentice. Relate it to our relative underdevelopment of our interior abilities compared to exterior (technology etc).
Draft and send a newsletter for Nov 2021.
Pros / cons of doing my own nextjs template for tailwind + nextjs (vs e.g. https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog)
Pros:
Cons: takes time from just doing it (e.g. just create the site)
Pros: just doing it has become a bit time consuming and buggy ...
/img/
)archive/
)Create a general research program / agenda that outlines what we are pursuing and which others can connect with and contribute to.
Charley Lee and I are going to organize community catchups.
Systems change, culture development and community living are exciting and energising topics. We all sense that we need new structures in place for an ever changing world. However, this work can be tiring, overwhelming and at times downright exhausting! Our community drop ins are a place with no agenda and no pressure. Its somewhere to share and reflect on the work you’re doing and to connect with amazing people working on similar projects from around the world.
We all need a little space to slow down and have fun. So let’s join together and share some of the great work and experiences we are doing in the world.
Situation
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Nov 20, 2019, 23:24
DCVC backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar problems to multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its costs.
You have got to love that "multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone" 😉
https://forepartnership.com/about/
"Purpose driven real estate investment partnership"
What is "purpose driven" about it (and what is the purpose?)
Ask yourself: are the world's greatest problems actually solvable via (just) market forces? And if so, is a lack of capital a problem? Is this the false consciousness of the 1% (or rather 0.001%)? (To be clear, I applaud Jeff Skoll's work and his commitment to active philanthropy. It might just be clearer to say: we're making as much money here as possible, purpose-driven or not, so that we can support the great philanthropic work we do elsewhere).
+purposebs +technosolutionism
"unique solution to a massive world problem". Really? Is that what tech startups are doing?
https://twitter.com/b_nicks11/status/1242459642908704768
7/ It’s hard to find the right co-founder and first hires, have the mindspace to have conviction around their unique solution to a massive world problem, and have the connections to quality investors to make it a reality. On Deck's vision is to make that easier and better.
Check in on processing of old Art Earth Tech contact stuff https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ab-riuFqGYi5510HgZxUnxrmZFROXckULS0_cbAzx-g/edit#gid=1997953790
This is to ensure the issue numbers in GitLab and GitHub are the same
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Nov 20, 2019, 23:00
The joy of well-living
A nourishing home that grounds you. Time shared with awesome people. The gentle flow of new ideas and fresh-thinking that elevates everything. A life tuned into the magic of the city; that’s a life well-lived.
--
A home should be more than a roof over your head
It’s clear to us that the city has moved faster than our housing models and we think it’s about time they caught up. Balancing the growing need for both privacy and community; for meaningful exchanges and generous individual space, Mason & Fifth are defining ‘well-living’ for a generation seeking a new option for ‘home’ in the city.
Mason & Fifth - a space that nurtures, a community that energises and a transformational home that connects you to you. Welcome home!
Mason___Fifth___Bermondsey_studios_available_January_2020.pdf
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Dec 9, 2019, 23:12
Hal Stone and Voice Dialogue etc https://voicedialogueinternational.com/index-Hal_Stone.htm
Source: mentioned by Doshin Roshi
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Apr 2, 2021, 13:20
MARCH 17, 2016 by: Anna Nicolaou
It is February, a few days or so after WeWork’s valuation has jumped to $15bn, and Adam Neumann, chief executive of the office space start-up, is fussing over what kind of tea to serve me. “Not the lime one,” he says to an assistant in WeWork’s new headquarters in Manhattan’s Chelsea district. “It had a triangular bag. You know, the really yummy one you made.”
Neumann, a 6ft 5in former Israeli navy captain, co-founded WeWork with Miguel McKelvey in 2010 to transform normal offices into what he describes as “the future of work”.
The result is industrial chic workspaces with neon signs, free craft beer on tap and taco party nights. WeWork creates a youngish vibe, especially appealing to millennial workers.
WeWork says it has 50,000 “members” — or customers — spanning 78 locations in 23 cities in the US, Europe and Israel. It expects the number of members to more than double by the end of the year.
At its core WeWork is a property company, but has branded itself as a sharing economy start-up, attracting investors — such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan — that have pumped nearly $800m into the enterprise in the past year and a half. Fidelity Investments raised its valuation of its $190m in WeWork shares by a half in December, boosting the six-year-old company’s valuation to $15bn, higher than those, for example, of Elon Musk’s rocket enterprise SpaceX and web and mobile application company Pinterest.
This implies that WeWork’s office space of some 5m sq ft in total is worth $3,000 per square foot, more than even the highest-class towers in New York, such as the GM building, which commands $2,400 per square foot.
WeWork’s business model was born out of the financial crisis. In 2007 Neumann owned a baby clothing company that he describes as “not a great success”. He ran the business from a building in Brooklyn, where he noticed chunks of empty space and convinced his landlord to let him sublet cubicles on the classified advertisement website Craigslist for extra cash.
This morphed into Green Desk, a sustainably-focused co-working space company, which he founded with McKelvey, an architect who also worked in the building.
A few years later, with the US unemployment rate still hovering around 9 per cent, WeWork was born. In a shaky jobs market, more workers were freelancing or working from home. An opportunity was spotted to draw the post-recession labour force into offices with exposed brick walls and happy hours, an alternative to drab cubicles or Starbucks couches.
WeWork’s tenants say the community atmosphere makes the life of small start-ups and freelancers less lonely.
In the wake of the recession, freelancing is no longer niche. A third of US workers are now freelancers, according to research by software company Intuit, and this is expected to grow to more than 40 per cent by 2020. Neumann sees the so-called gig economy as a permanent shift in the nature of work.
“An entire generation saw this downturn” and noticed “that the old rules are broken”, he says. “The sharing economy is around in so many different aspects of their lives. Kids today, they don’t need to buy a car, they can drive around in Uber. They don’t have to buy an office, we can rent an office for them.”
WeWork combats rising rents by securing preferential terms from landlords
WeWork now has 26 locations in New York City, where it has leased more than 700,000 sq ft of property in central Manhattan, according to Downtown Alliance, a Manhattan research company. Neumann, who grew up on a kibbutz, practices the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, and combines his beliefs with the shrewd deal making that has been so successful on the New York property market. When asked about competition, he says “happiness comes from within”. On the subject of the economic slowdown in China, he says companies should seek “social value” rather than pursue growth.
Some in the property industry are mystified by WeWork’s rise, given a comparison between the more traditional high-end office market in New York City and the assets WeWork deals in. “It’s hard to quite understand,” says a New York real estate lawyer. “These buildings don’t have great air conditioning or good light. The windows leak. It’s quirky and for some reason quirky has become not only a plus, but a requirement.”
Neumann says that beyond the aesthetic, WeWork connects companies with each other, cultivating a “physical social network”. Members post jobs and events on the company app and WeWork offices hold start-up pitch nights.
“The pitch seems to be: come work here and you’ll be with all these really good-looking young people that will help you do deals,” says John Lutzius, a managing director at real estate investment researchers Green Street Advisors.
I promise you that whatever landlords are willing to give us today, they will give us a lot more
Adam Neumann
WeWork is betting that its model will find success in more and more high-tech cities globally. The company has big plans for Europe, where it has already opened locations in London in the past year. Berlin and Paris are on its horizon.
Neumann says London will soon compete with New York as a prime WeWork hub, with 14 locations expected by the end of the year. “We know New York is our biggest city now. We don’t know that London is not our biggest city two years down the road,” he says.
WeWork’s London Moorgate location, with more than 150,000 sq ft, is now one of the largest co-working spaces in the UK, added to which, says Neumann, a fan of north African and Middle Eastern cooking, it is the kind of cosmopolitan area where you can get a “really awesome shakshuka”.
WeWork has also expanded its customer base beyond small start-ups, to large companies including American Express, GE and Blablacar. It is moving into the residential market with WeLive and its community-oriented “co-living” apartments. The first WeLive apartment complex opened in New York this year.
The world has changed dramatically since WeWork first opened its doors. Although a fresh round of market turmoil and the crash in the oil price has raised the spectre of another global recession, property prices have recovered from the effects of 2008 and in many cities exceeded the subprime peak level. Hence it is not easy to find the more affordable older buildings that WeWork leased in its early days.
WeWork has combated rising rents by securing preferential lease terms from landlords as an anchor tenant in buildings that it occupies. Adding WeWork to a building brings “above market energy incentives”, says Neumann, which is to say its presence attracts other tenants to the location.
Related article
Head offices need new heart ... and soul
Now staff can choose where to work, a central hub is vital
Even so, WeWork’s structure is intrinsically risky. It takes out long leases of at least 10 years, but its own customers are on monthly contracts. Regus, its main rival in office space rentals, grew rapidly during the last dotcom boom, but filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2003 after the bubble popped and its tech clients pulled out.
Neumann admits that some of WeWork’s customers “will have issues” if the economy sours, but adds that property prices are likely to fall in a downturn, which cuts WeWork’s costs: “I promise you that whatever landlords are willing to give us today, they will give us a lot more.” He says he has already seen lease prices dive in the past six months, as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates and stock markets faltered.
Some market observers have questioned whether WeWork’s rapid rise is another sign of a tech bubble brewing around hyped young companies with soaring valuations. Internal documents obtained by The Information, a news site, showed WeWork had $4m in profits on $75m in sales in 2014. WeWork projected profits to grow to more than $900m on sales of $3bn by 2018, the documents showed.
Despite these lofty expectations, Neumann says he does not take uncalculated risks. The company does its research, he insists. “We know the demand is there.”
Thenac hub is already on google maps
Would be good to add Berlin and Bergerac.
This is a lovely video from a volunteer who shared it on facebook. Huge props to putting it together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU64TRTUxmo
Liam and Valerie were contributing to a contemplative activism book in Aut 2021. What happened to this? Are there outputs (even from Liam and Valerie) that we can share?
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Sep 10, 2019, 21:22
Interesting to look at what people propose in terms of ways to address climate change:
Note these guys won Fast Company "Innovation of the Year"!
David Sloan Wilson (Chapter 7 of Darwin's Cathedral):
https://artearthtech.com/2019/02/04/darwins-cathedral-david-sloan-wilson/
One reason that I admire some aspects of religion is because I share some of its values. I have not attempted to hide this fact, and I hope that it has not intruded upon my science. Nor have I attempted to conceal my own basic optimism that the world can be a better place in the future than in the past or present—that there can be such a thing as a path to enlightenment. Being a scientist does not require becoming indifferent to human welfare.
Options / Research
Check this AET glossary is merged into the tao - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b-9B3b-rEtpYqw5fCXCs0CcoUIuBBmuhwmJ5IfsvgSI/edit#heading=h.nj7mfrmxnynh
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Nov 19, 2019, 08:37
Very interesting paper. Still not entirely clear on the conclusions esp those in the more journalistically titled Conversation piece ("Inequality now Extends to People's DNA).
Inequality_now_extends_to_people_s_DNA.pdf
Genetic_correlates_of_social_stratification_in_Great_Britain.pdf
I am still trying to sort through some of things in my own mind. For example, the relation of correlation and causation (which can sometimes be assumed - though in the Nature piece they caution against this).
For example, many, many societies throughout history have engaged in systematized, institutionalized patriarchy in which socio-economic opportunities for women were severely restricted. Now there are also clear physical (and genetic) differences between men and women so if you were to do a simple correlation of e.g. EA on phenotypic differences in a pre-modern patriarchal society you would find that these genetic differences "explained" a huge amount of the socioeconomic differences. However, in reality, small differences in physical strength have been translated into a socio-cultural equilibrium in which women were systematically limited in their opportunities.
Community hangout has happened and we've posted any updates / recordings if appropriate.
Created in 2020.
2022-11-09: Note a lot of this is covered in #190 and need to check what if anything remains to be done here.
Research
Patterns (for hubs)
Hubs
How we operate / who we are
Strategy and planning (+ overview)
Research
TODO
Currently we have a large amount of material spread in many areas. We would like a consolidated structure for our SCQHs and at least one root SCQH plus a consolidated summary version so that:
Hierarchically structured SCQHs: Like 5 whys our Why structure is hierarchical flowing down from top-most (most obvious, high-level) to lowest level (concretely what we do). It is likely that we have more than one SCQH, perhaps even one SCQH for each of these levels.
Outputs
Terms to define:
Naming the disciplines related:
What is our near term roadmap
Where do we start?
Who are the stakeholders?
What do key terms mean?
How do the seedlings connect into a broader movement and general social change?
When I am looking at what activities to take on or prioritize I want a grounded structure to evaluate these against and fit them into so our work is focused and coherence and hence more effective, understandable etc
How does SCQH relate? SCQH with its issue and hyp tree explicitly spell this out. Any existing or new activity should be relatable to these trees.
When looking at Life Itself I want to (quickly) grok your deeper reason/logic for existence i.e. what’s the problem and how are you addressing that … so that I know if it is a match and how i can relate
SCQH explicitly spell out the problem and with the issue tree and hyp tree set out how you need to address them. We could also do something a big more here interface wise.
This implies there are 2 distinct products to produce:
Source: https://www.greencommodities.org/content/gcp/en/home/global-initiatives/CSI.html
“I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address those problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy … and to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation — and we scientists don’t know how to do that". - Gus Speth, World Resource Institute
“The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual" - Al Gore, American politician and environmentalist
Create a conscious parenting course and/or resources online so that others may use them
Why: conscious parenting is one very concrete, very powerful area of application of "wiser" principles to day to day life.
How do we start?
Admin
Other potential material
Topics to cover (potentially):
First course
[Aside: Originally opened on 26 Oct ... - in another repo]
TODO: port over all the items from the old comms board in gitlab
For each of these we may need to check we haven't already posted somewhere or other ...
This is a key question in our core SCQH issue tree / theory of change.
We ran a variety of salons from ~2017-2020 with majority being in 2019-2020 and coordinated by Petro (Salons have sort of gone on hiatus since 2020 and will probably be replaced by imaginary society and community calls).
Additional items (not strictly salons)
Some good stuff in there including various salons etc. Would be nice to extract the good stuff and post it so it was online and this stuff could be archive.
[NB: this issue originally created 3-4y ago in gitlab]
We want to research communitarian initiatives from around the world to understand what works, so we can learn from them to perhaps implement their methods amongst our community building efforts with art earth tech.
/events/
page run off this ...When sharing the residencies I want to know of intentional community related places online where this could be shared because this is relevant to people interested in intentional communities.
Have list of intentional community groups and forums ready to post whenever we want to advertise a residency.
In GitLab by @rufuspollock on Sep 16, 2020, 09:42
16 Sep 2020: This is a masterful takedown and analysis written by a developer who has worked at one of leading blockchain companies (and who i know personally): https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html
2016/2017
See also https://rufuspollock.com/2016/07/02/reflections-on-the-blockchain/ and https://rufuspollock.com/2017/05/11/thoughts-on-blockchain-in-geneva/
TODO: link techno solutionism piece
Idea: use this repository as notebook/wiki/forum and have that published online at e.g. forum.lifeitself.us or lifeitself.us/forum/
There are roughly two parts to this:
When I have notes on a book I want to be able to publish them somewhere so that others (and myself) can find them
When I have quick ideas or notes (incl e.g. a screenshot) I want to be able to store (and publish) them somewhere so I can find and link to them later
When creating notes or ideas or questions I want to be able to discuss them with others so that they get get refined or answered
When I have ideas or thoughts (relatively unformed) I want to share with others so that i can get input / feedback
When I want to learn more day to day about a community I want to have somewhere I can see what they are up to and thinking so that ...
When I am loosely associated
This community repository current houses a few things:
Git repo itself
New-fangled graph-oriented knowledge systems seem all the rage e.g. Roam and now a plethora of others Foam, Dendron, Obsidian, Athens Research etc etc (though seem incredibly similar to wikis ... but with block level linking ...)
Would be nice to use this and perhaps the zettelkasten methodology.
My recommendation would be Obsidian or Dendron I think. Dendron seems better than Foam.
We have a nice recording of the 7 Nov community hangout with our interview with Karl. We want to post this on our youtube channel and update the blog post.
Much of co-x stuff in this repo was in git-lfs and has not got migrated from gitlab. Need to fix this.
Also preferably remove it from git-lfs if we can ...
When I'm using social media to engage the broader Life Itself community, I want the best integrated platform to manage the content we post across our channels.
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A PHP framework for web artisans
Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. 📊📈🎉
JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight interpreted programming language with first-class functions.
Some thing interesting about web. New door for the world.
A server is a program made to process requests and deliver data to clients.
Machine learning is a way of modeling and interpreting data that allows a piece of software to respond intelligently.
Some thing interesting about visualization, use data art
Some thing interesting about game, make everyone happy.
We are working to build community through open source technology. NB: members must have two-factor auth.
Open source projects and samples from Microsoft.
Google ❤️ Open Source for everyone.
Alibaba Open Source for everyone
Data-Driven Documents codes.
China tencent open source team.