Andrew:

• Building a canon

Harry:

• how to help people without self-deception or goodharting?

Tyler:

• Black Mountain College
  • early in the founding, there was basically no or very little casual / promiscuous sex
    • why?
  • A male student says: “we were much too serious about everything, including each other.” and “testimony on this account is basically unanimous” (according to Martin Duberman)
  • “Let’s not let the group spirit become a tyrant” (The Autonomy of the group is protected by an Authority figure), he hated structure for artists
  • You would see your professor not just in the classroom, but also while acting with them, while building domes with them, while eating lunch with them. A peership with authority.
  • “no martyrdom!”
  • “in issues of conflict between the group and the individual, rice would in most cases except the most unreasonable side with the individual”
  • “no fixed systems, formal grading, systems of evaluation at all.”
  • For the first 10 days of classes, students were encouraged to “shop around”. Students decide on the shape of their own education, then divided the curriculum between “Junior” and “Senior” divisions, and they would divide them based on quizzing
    • System that is designed to allocate the scarce resource of professor investment in students
  • They had a habit of creating interdisciplinary seminars with multiple instructors to cross pollinate
• Esselin
• The German Romantics
• Leverage

Francisco (Xiq):

• TPOT
• Establishing a local scene in Lisbon
  • How can I get a lot of very compatible people around me all the time
  • So far I have:
    • organized many events (Catalisbon)
    • organized dinners whenever I can (opportunities to build rapport in the scene)
  • But now I live in Porto, so it’s smaller
• I believe we need a new church (e.g. there is a theological crisis)
  • the reason: there is no Dunbar level of coordination happening for most people