Hey Richard, this was was really great. The passage below helped me frame some of the work that I'm doing. And it's beautifully written! Cheers.
"A gathering is a temporary, set-apart container, where we get to experience a different social reality for a few days. At a really good gathering, you may suddenly find yourself interacting with potentially hundreds of people in ways that you would normally reserve for just your close friends: you become more open, more generous, more trusting. A gathering can temporarily inflate your bubble of trust to include many more people."
Thank you for calling out The Gathering https://the-gathering.earth/ it's intended exactly to build that energy of collaboration and coming together.
I think what's really interesting is to think how crews come together into larger entities - I am predicting that with a teal/regenerative mindset, remote work and crypto-enabled-organisations we're going to see a cambrian explosion of organisational forms in the coming decades.
I'm thinking of writing a whitepaper on this idea - building ecosystems of collaboration and the coming Cambrian explosion of organisational forms.
I am so bummed with the timing of The Gathering, perfect overlap with a client gig I have to run. But so stoked it is happening! count me in for the Cambrian explosion :)
Love the reference to Dunbar, I've been bringing him up in conversation because I feel like I've hit my friend threshold. The stat between the # of friends in 1990 vs 2021 is shocking, I think a lot of it stems back to us spending more time in the digital realm and less time out in the real world socializing with real people. I'm looking forward to hosting my first IRL meetup so the info your sharing is helpful, thanks!
I was left wondering how much of those stats are explained by people really having less close friends, and how much is simply due to people having a different notion of what a close friendship is - especially considering that the most common 1990 answer was having >10 close friends!
Wow, Microsolidarity sounds really inspired! Exactly what I have been thinking about in relation to my own friend group, which is becoming increasingly scattered to the winds of economic change. Will have to make sure I get to it next year when I have time to prepare finances and travel!
many people write about and tackle this issue. anything commercial in nature, internet or not, is NOT going to help solve these issues for people. calling something a 'non-profit' doesn't make it non-commercial.
good luck on helping humans.
it is interesting to see the good side and hypocrisy side on how gatherings,powwows, festivals ( burning man ) help to try and fill the gap here.
A well-timed (downright synchronicity of an) article. The Creekmasons and I have been talking lately about when we might meet up together in meat space.
Hey Richard, this was was really great. The passage below helped me frame some of the work that I'm doing. And it's beautifully written! Cheers.
"A gathering is a temporary, set-apart container, where we get to experience a different social reality for a few days. At a really good gathering, you may suddenly find yourself interacting with potentially hundreds of people in ways that you would normally reserve for just your close friends: you become more open, more generous, more trusting. A gathering can temporarily inflate your bubble of trust to include many more people."
This was a fantastic article, thanks for writing it. Saved it in my personal notes and subscribed to your substack. Cheers!
thanks for the kind words Pedro. I'm curious to hear why it resonated with you
Thank you for calling out The Gathering https://the-gathering.earth/ it's intended exactly to build that energy of collaboration and coming together.
I think what's really interesting is to think how crews come together into larger entities - I am predicting that with a teal/regenerative mindset, remote work and crypto-enabled-organisations we're going to see a cambrian explosion of organisational forms in the coming decades.
I'm thinking of writing a whitepaper on this idea - building ecosystems of collaboration and the coming Cambrian explosion of organisational forms.
I am so bummed with the timing of The Gathering, perfect overlap with a client gig I have to run. But so stoked it is happening! count me in for the Cambrian explosion :)
Love the reference to Dunbar, I've been bringing him up in conversation because I feel like I've hit my friend threshold. The stat between the # of friends in 1990 vs 2021 is shocking, I think a lot of it stems back to us spending more time in the digital realm and less time out in the real world socializing with real people. I'm looking forward to hosting my first IRL meetup so the info your sharing is helpful, thanks!
dude first IRL meeting, that rules! have fun :)
Don't the results seem "too shocking"?
I was left wondering how much of those stats are explained by people really having less close friends, and how much is simply due to people having a different notion of what a close friendship is - especially considering that the most common 1990 answer was having >10 close friends!
Wow, Microsolidarity sounds really inspired! Exactly what I have been thinking about in relation to my own friend group, which is becoming increasingly scattered to the winds of economic change. Will have to make sure I get to it next year when I have time to prepare finances and travel!
many people write about and tackle this issue. anything commercial in nature, internet or not, is NOT going to help solve these issues for people. calling something a 'non-profit' doesn't make it non-commercial.
good luck on helping humans.
it is interesting to see the good side and hypocrisy side on how gatherings,powwows, festivals ( burning man ) help to try and fill the gap here.
A well-timed (downright synchronicity of an) article. The Creekmasons and I have been talking lately about when we might meet up together in meat space.
https://youtu.be/XinVOpdcbVc?si=ksZXVT9eLwfLz8YJ
In fact this old short story of Charles Eisenstein’s is still in my clipboard from pasting it onto our discord server, haha