Blurbs about the movement
Decks for fundraising, etc
Longer media
A Movement for Meaning (Ellieās 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 thereās more to life than instrumentalizing yourself for some flat notion of āgoodā? Want to re-sacralize life, but donāt want a return to tradition? For everyone who hasnāt given up on existential hope.
Aligning Markets, Metrics, and Product Design with Meaning and Social Cohesion (Joeās talk)
I define a kind of business, website, or app we need more of, that I call āspacesā. Spaces are places that build community, trust, and connection between people. More spaces would help with āinternet problemsā like internet addiction, depression among teens, doom-scrolling, political polarization and outrage, etc, and would also build a stronger social fabricāinstitutions would function better, thereād 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.