E53| Beacons In The Fog, w/ Calley Smith & Tyler Hollett

As culture fractures and human energy seeks connection, security, and possibility in the digital, how can we avoid dopaminergic traps and find others with whom we can participate and build healthy, meaningful, generative patterns of interaction?

Calley and Tyler have become friends and collaborators and each bring a unique energy and perspective to the emerging network of culture-making.

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Conversation Waypoints

Emergent digital networks
The journey of connecting with others to move towards building something
Tyler and Calley’s journey to meeting each other in the digital
Thinking from first principles about the nature of value, motivation, and designing for healthy individual development and cultural rhythms
Religion, rituals, hosting, and sparking breakthroughs and growth
What are the roles or archetypal formations most conducive to sparking life into digital communities?
Experiences in Eric Weinstein’s portal discord and Lex Fridman’s discord
Designing more effective ways for human energy to find generative and rewarding contribution
Designing digital villages
The Metagora as a total replacement for the dopamine traps on social networks
Integrating trolling and encouraging the joker
Onward paths for participation and collaboration

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people, community, conversation, world, sense, space, problems, interaction, part, find, group, network, relate, occurring, dynamics, life, schism, speak, threads, discord

About Calley and Tyler

Calley and Tyler take ‘serious play’ to heart in the raising of children, buildings, and morale. She is a game designer, architect, and artist who explores the potential of roleplay for personal cultivation and community development. Platform establishment and content creation are her focus, while Tyler turns his to understanding human behavior and needs. His keen attention to nuance and patterns coupled with a wealth of knowledge and curious mind make him both effective and genuinely caring. Together they have teamed up to take on some of the hard problems of this world in the hope of finding equilibration.

Find them on Discord and via themetagora(at)gmail.com