Blurbs about the movement

Decks for fundraising, etc

• 📈Meaning Economy Draft Deck

Longer media

A Movement for Meaning (Ellie’s talk)

A social movement that celebrates life and puts meaning and beauty at the center. Tired of predatory ideologies spreading fear, guilt, and resentment? Know there’s more to life than instrumentalizing yourself for some flat notion of “good”? Want to re-sacralize life, but don’t want a return to tradition? For everyone who hasn’t given up on existential hope.

Aligning Markets, Metrics, and Product Design with Meaning and Social Cohesion (Joe’s talk)

I define a kind of business, website, or app we need more of, that I call “spaces”. Spaces are places that build community, trust, and connection between people. More spaces would help with “internet problems” like internet addiction, depression among teens, doom-scrolling, political polarization and outrage, etc, and would also build a stronger social fabric—institutions would function better, there’d be more state capacity, people would be more resilient in emergencies. Finally, more spaces might restart progress in science and democracy, which were designed as spaces but have been slowly re-fashioned (as what I call funnels).

I get nerdy about what it takes to make spaces, how to recognize them, and what kinds of policies, funding, etc would make more of them.

An Economy of Human Flourishing

This is kind of a teaser version of this talk. The final version will have much better visuals and my head will be floating around on the screen. Also, I hope the script will be better. That's where y

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