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Alan Analytics presents a brief analysis of r/wallstreetbets; tens of thousands of the subreddit's posts and comments analyzed using their AI ontology to classify texts based on different cultural parameters.
I have recently recreated my environment by leaving Los Angeles and purchasing our first house in the Sierras just outside Yosemite. I look forward to using this transition as a launchpad into developing my skills and craftsmanship to create an interactive art park and retreat center for small groups. I'm passionate about tea and the way that it can build community, and look forward to creating safe spaces for people to grow and play in the physical world.
As a founding Citizen, I co-create on many stories, including One Gatherings, One Financial, and many more. You can often find me holding space in https://topia.io/teahouse.
I'm always available with an empathetic ear and happy to answer any questions you might have about the cooperative. Be sure to join me for New Citizens 101 on Wednesday's at 9:00am.
As a founding Citizen, I co-create on many stories, including One Gatherings, One Financial, and many more. You can often find me holding space in https://topia.io/teahouse.
I'm always available with an empathetic ear and happy to answer any questions you might have about the cooperative. Be sure to join me for New Citizens 101 on Wednesday's at 9:00am.
'A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts To Nourish the Soul' is an anthology of ancient and classic texts, curated by Leo Tolstoy, which fulfilled his fifteen-year dream of "collecting the wisdom of the centuries in one book." It's a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living.
I discovered, and purchased, Calendar of Wisdom as a result of Ryan Holiday's recommendation, sent to his email newsletter titled 'The (Very) Best Books I Read in 2018'. As Holiday summarized,
Each day draws on Chinese, Jewish, Stoic, Christian, Indian and Arabic sources (he quotes everyone from Emerson to Marcus Aurelius to Lao-Tzu) and manages to give good, actionable advice from all of these differing schools. [...] This book should be much, much more popular and I promise your mornings will be improved if you start them with it.
For work I'm using Topia to build a gala space, for play I build kinky spaces. Unfortunately, I can't share my worlds publicly at the moment.
In the short term, I want to finish building my gala world and host my first successful paid event. In the medium term, I want to get to know other Citizens and contribute something meaningful to One Inc. And, in the long term, I want to reorganize my professional life to make more room for meaningful projects.
Looking forward to exploring with you all!
In the short term, I want to finish building my gala world and host my first successful paid event. In the medium term, I want to get to know other Citizens and contribute something meaningful to One Inc. And, in the long term, I want to reorganize my professional life to make more room for meaningful projects.
Looking forward to exploring with you all!
'The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self' by Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In it, Eisenstein argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
Age of Reunion is emerging out of the birth pangs of an earth in crisis. Our journey of separation hasn't been a terrible mistake but an evolutionary process and an adventure in self-discovery. Eisenstein sees the possibility of a more beautiful world—not through the extension of millennia-old methods of management and control but by fundamentally reimagining ourselves and our systems. We must shift away from our Babelian efforts to build ever-higher towers to heaven and instead turn out attention to creating a new kind of civilization--one designed for beauty rather than height.
It hooked me with the opening sentence, "Dedicated to the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible.” I am grateful of High Existence for the recommendation (via their newsletter).
It's a dense, and sometimes distressing read, but I cannot recommend it highly enough.
'Companies that Mimic Life: Leaders of the Emerging Corporate Renaissance' is a book by Joseph Bragdon that chronicles the radical transformation taking root in the corporate world.
Industrial capitalism is broken. The signs transcend national ideologies and are everywhere: climate change; ecological overshoot; financial exhaustion; fraying social safety nets; corporate fraud; government deceit; civic unrest; terrorism; and war. But there is hope. This book tells how transformation is taking root in the corporate world—the last place many would look for solutions.
The ideal of "organization-as-machine," which has been dominant for hundreds of years into the late 20th century, is giving way to an ideal of "organization-as-Living System." Understanding that everything of value ultimately arises from life, they place a higher value on living assets (people and Nature) than they do on nonliving assets—a practice called Living Asset Stewardship (LAS).
The operating leverage of LAS resides in the speed of learning and adaptation. LAS is a skill that relies on a heightened corporate consciousness. Consciousness is a unique property of life and so, the more lifelike companies become, the more conscious they become. Companies that mimic life exhibit six lifelike qualities that are present in all life from single-cell organisms to large ecosystems.
These six qualities are (1) decentralized, self-organizing Networked Structures whos component parts serve the health of the whole; (2)Regenerative Life Strategies that increase opportunities for survival, reproduction, and improvement of cultural DNA; (3) Frugal Instincts that seek to optimize their use of resources; (4) Openness To Feedback that enables adaptive learning; (5) Symbiotic Behaviors that link individual wellbeing in the health of the larger systems in which they exist; and (6) Consciousness of capabilities, interdependencies, and limits.
Companies that Mimic Life shows the intuitiveness of Ecocentric Capitalism by telling the stories of Unilever, Nucor, United Technologies Corporation, Novo Nordisk, Henkel, and Nike.
- Join Nature Restored (gathering)
I have been teaching Spiritism for youth since the 90's. Last year we did a gathering on Zoom. But since I learned of Topia.io I have been thinking that this has opened so many possibilities to blow their minds up!
Short term, I want to invite my friends to walk around a World and see how it works in terms of communicating, moving around, and sharing a video.
Mid term, I want to create a couple of assets.
No so long term (by Mid June) I want to have a World that mixes current day living situations with some of Jesus' parables scenes.
(Another short term goal is to join a DnD game on Topia. I am a total newbie. Any recommendations?)
Short term, I want to invite my friends to walk around a World and see how it works in terms of communicating, moving around, and sharing a video.
Mid term, I want to create a couple of assets.
No so long term (by Mid June) I want to have a World that mixes current day living situations with some of Jesus' parables scenes.
(Another short term goal is to join a DnD game on Topia. I am a total newbie. Any recommendations?)
Hi, my name is Joshua. Today I came across Brian's web presence in the Topia Discord channel and I felt inspired to join the community here.
I'll are a bit about myself...
I create a variety of experiences, both digital and IRL which assist people in cultivating self-awareness. I created a healing modality which I call The Quantum Theater. It is a story-based process to address chronic emotional tensions hidden within one's energy field, deep inside the digestive organs, fascia, all around the body. By unlocking and resolving these stories together, great relaxation and presence is immediately possible.
I am passionate about scalability and now I am working with technology to develop a way for large numbers of people to access this experience, without the financial obligation or intensity of scheduling a private session with a practitioner.
It is exciting for me to connect with others at this intersection of technology and consciousness, because after spending many years in energy work/shamanic healing communities I find the creative nature of high tech wizardry to be a refreshing expression of what we are all cultivating through the consciousness work.
I also have a background as a professional filmmaker, which is a skill set I am still learning to apply to the world I described above.
It feels quite strange to write a self-description, I have been on a sabbatical from my work and communities for the last 6 months or so and my identity has changed significantly since I last shared about myself.
My partner Katie and I met in Indonesia. Since then we have been traveling together, following nudges both in the directions of joyous fun and personal challenge. At the moment, we are in Denmark assisting a very talented friend in launching a metaphysical school, co-facilitating in his online psychic skills course for the next few weeks until we come back to the states for a bit.
Happy to connect and chat if you feel the call <3
Thank you!
Joshua
I'll are a bit about myself...
I create a variety of experiences, both digital and IRL which assist people in cultivating self-awareness. I created a healing modality which I call The Quantum Theater. It is a story-based process to address chronic emotional tensions hidden within one's energy field, deep inside the digestive organs, fascia, all around the body. By unlocking and resolving these stories together, great relaxation and presence is immediately possible.
I am passionate about scalability and now I am working with technology to develop a way for large numbers of people to access this experience, without the financial obligation or intensity of scheduling a private session with a practitioner.
It is exciting for me to connect with others at this intersection of technology and consciousness, because after spending many years in energy work/shamanic healing communities I find the creative nature of high tech wizardry to be a refreshing expression of what we are all cultivating through the consciousness work.
I also have a background as a professional filmmaker, which is a skill set I am still learning to apply to the world I described above.
It feels quite strange to write a self-description, I have been on a sabbatical from my work and communities for the last 6 months or so and my identity has changed significantly since I last shared about myself.
My partner Katie and I met in Indonesia. Since then we have been traveling together, following nudges both in the directions of joyous fun and personal challenge. At the moment, we are in Denmark assisting a very talented friend in launching a metaphysical school, co-facilitating in his online psychic skills course for the next few weeks until we come back to the states for a bit.
Happy to connect and chat if you feel the call <3
Thank you!
Joshua
I am creating a public relations & broker-agency platform to showcase and connect consumers with products, suppliers, service providers, work & investment opportunities in buildings, neighborhoods, destinations that absolutely MUST live, stay or connect with or share!
FuturVille.com is coming soon. For now you can find us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/FuturVilleFB.
Goals:
1. 1 month: secure 3 companies that want to produce and distribute paid-for podcasts; attract 5 new people to Re-Build.co Summit.
2. 3 months: Create broker-agency and PR assets for a company in each of the following categories: 3D printed residential homes; PR agency web platform/dashboard; 3D printed stand-alone commercial building that will serve as an accessible/rentable podcast/meeting room
3. 11 months: develop partnership agreement with 3 provincial/state level economic development organizations to bring programming, legacy podcast building, and new connections for regenerative building solutions to EACH of their member economic-development organizations.
FuturVille.com is coming soon. For now you can find us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/FuturVilleFB.
Goals:
1. 1 month: secure 3 companies that want to produce and distribute paid-for podcasts; attract 5 new people to Re-Build.co Summit.
2. 3 months: Create broker-agency and PR assets for a company in each of the following categories: 3D printed residential homes; PR agency web platform/dashboard; 3D printed stand-alone commercial building that will serve as an accessible/rentable podcast/meeting room
3. 11 months: develop partnership agreement with 3 provincial/state level economic development organizations to bring programming, legacy podcast building, and new connections for regenerative building solutions to EACH of their member economic-development organizations.
Illustrator and Creative at large. I'm working with the amazing folks at One Studio doing our best to create amazing environments and assets for mutual play and co-creation.
