Mason

The Y in NYC stands for Yearning

@sonikudzu woooooooooo

last year’s vibeszn led to me moving to NYC 8 weeks later to do Fractal Accelerator and become a software engineer. i start my first full-time engineering role in June

@SYNESTHEIZURE Ah yes the Vibecamp->NYC pipeline

going to vibecamp last year caused me to leave my ex, leave my job, move 3 times in 8 months, and in 1 week relocate to NYC. It's great and I'm going again but ts might fuck up your life a bit

@ledflyd Yessir

@wigglybone LGA?

Blessed to live in a city where I can citibike to the airport

@__drewface yes please sign me up, also dress code is great idea

I am going to begin hosting controversial political salons with assigned readings, moderated seminar style discussion, Chatham-house rules, and a nice dress code. In person, at our campus in NYC. If this interests you, please let me know. More details soon.

@maebichka yes for sure! would also evangelize

IF I THREW A DANCE PARTY IN NEW YORK CITY WOULD YOU COME

if you're interested in being a FractalU instructor/ been wondering how to teach a FractalU class, join @wigglybone and @crystalxduan for a prospective teacher Q&A night! We will explore the process of becoming an instructor, what it's like to teach at FractalU, and some examples of popular classes. Light snacks and drinks will be provided, come hang out! partiful.com/e/VzipHWAPEwIr…

Golden Thread reading group proceeds. Today was the rise of Rome and the Roman Republic

@danielgolliher yes please

The response to this makes me think MNY should have a class on the history of Rome specifically.

@cremieuxrecueil Are there any promising projects here?

It is well past time for total tick death.

@equusaranza Yes! Summer semester will start June 1st. Courses announced in May, subscribe here for updates: open.substack.com/pub/fractaluni…

@wigglybone Will there be these type of classes in summer ?

🌸Fractal University Spring courses are live! Take an affordable, peer-led class on: - Tango - Designing an Agrarian Commune - Bodywork - Foundations of the University - lots more Taught in living rooms all over NYC. Applications due March 25th. Link to apply below

@davidshimel Well it turns out the problem was that I was consuming 200g of whey a day at the time. Everything in moderation

@wigglybone Hemp protein powder?

Just found out there’s a known pathway linking whey concentrate to skin problems. Basically the end of the world. How will I get enough protein now

@TylerAlterman @cxgonzalez Fractal does need more white boards

@cxgonzalez You could start this at Fractal

this is how we recreate salon culture

Family function? Yeah I sure hope it does

@forshaper @gkamstra @GarrettPetersen Would you consider sharing it? Curious!

@gkamstra @GarrettPetersen The plan for our kids.

If school subjects aren't going to be actually useful, we might as well let the kids spend a decade playing cognitively demanding strategy video games.

@vividvoid chat is this real??

The schedule and curriculum for STRUCTURE - my New Year's retreat - is now finished! Here's how the retreat will flow over four days: 12/30: Form - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - Orientation - How to Read a Building: An Introduction to Christopher Alexander - There's No Such Thing As A House: Systems Thinking and Dependent Origination - Somatic Meditation Practice - The Architecture of the Self: Modeling the self-concept, mapping connected systems and understanding negative space and experience - Evening Movie (Optional): Life As A House 12/31: Space - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - The Order of Nature: Bringing Work to Life - Group Trip to Japanese Gardens / Remote Video Content - Zen and the Japanese Arts: Tea, Calligraphy, Flowers and the Great Dao - Attention as Prayer: Thich Nhat Hanh, Simone Weil and Jon Kabat-Zinn on Mindfulness - The Zen Way of Seeing: Training a suite of concrete perceptual tools to enrich observation, increase perspective, and open up new dimensions of experience and understanding - Evening Movie (Optional): Ikiru - New Year's Celebration and Ceremony 1/1: Object - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - Beauty and the Dream of the Self: How investments of time, care & attention shape the feeling of who we are - Coaxing the Infinite: Mindfulness, Presence and Creativity - Group Lunch at Dushanbe Teahouse / Remote Video Content - The Inner Theater: Self-schemas, object relations, inner dramas - How to Build a Void: Emerging from internal conflict and inhabiting the True Self - Evening Movie: The Five Obstructions 1/2: Quality - Morning Tai Chi and Meditation - The Quality Without A Name: Resolving inner conflict, building self-trust, and making the world whole again - A Personal Pattern Language: Daylong workshop mapping your existing life structure, identifying patterns that vitalize you and internal conflicts that numb you, and planning effective, sustainable upgrades to your self-architecture - Personal coaching with Gabe - Closing Ceremony - Evening Movie (Optional): Perfect Days ~ End of Retreat ~ A few notes: - Participants should plan to fly in on December 29th and fly out on January 3rd. Flights are tricky at this time of year, so I can offer lodging to folks if they need to be flexible with their travel itineraries. - We'll make and eat all of our meals together. - In-person participants will go together on field trips to the Japanese Gardens in Denver and the Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder. Remote participants will have video content available to learn the same lessons. - All Tai Chi and Meditation sessions will focus on vedanasati (awareness of feelings) and other practices that increase and refine somatic sensitivity.

I'm fine, I swear, this is actually great

I love America. This country really is so beautiful