USMC Veteran. Where will the $$$ President Donald Trump is moving into VA budget actually go?  I am searching and studying how government grants should enable transitional housing contracts to renovate and create living quarters with access to laundry,  internet, community meeting center.

Relational Tech Project. Just found out about this initiative and (without having had more than a skim so far) was reminded of my recently created UpTrust account, so this will be my first post. Hi to all who may see this!

https://relationaltechproject.org/

"We can build what we need

Many of us wish our neighborhoods were more connected. We want to live in neighborhoods where we learn from the creativity, care, and skills of our neighbors — and share our gifts too.

We've been told a perfect app or platform would help us, but that hasn't panned out. The hard truth is that no one is coming to save us.

The good news: we can build what we need!"

Deliberately Development Orgs are bullshit? I expect others here read and were influenced by An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Kegan and Lahey?

I remember first being introduced to it in a circling retreat probably 8 years ago or so. One of the example orgs they use is Bridgewater Associates with Ray Dalio at the head.

I loved their believability-weighted decision making algorithm (nod to Uptrust's setup here) that would score people's expertise in different fields. I loved their radical transparency and recording of meetings. I loved their "baseball card" feature for all employees showing where they're strong and weak.

But then I read The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates and The Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend. The author peels back the surface and basically shows Dalio ran essentially a narcissistic cult in his hedge fund. The algorithm was hard coded so that Dalio was ranked highest in every category. The recordings were highly edited to make him look good and his targets bad.

I haven't spent time looking at the other examples in the DDO book yet but I question maybe a for-profit huge corporation is going to be fighting really uphill to be a virtuous company in today's systems.

New structures for family-friends? Chatting with a friend recently and came up with this novel idea.

Historically, many people would end up married, having kids, and having responsibilities to their family and local community and groups.

These days, we have less family and civic integrity, less people are having kids. More people are creating their family of choice with friends.

I think there’s a general love and aliveness everyone wants to express and be in connection with.

But without the usual routes of kids/religion/local community, it doesn’t get routed well anymore.

We need more structures/ideas/understanding to support new kinds of families and community structures.

Examples:
How about an app that makes it easier to crowd source among trusted local friends to babysit?

Most housing is built around one nuclear family 1-4 bedrooms. But what about community homes with larger kitchens and living rooms and smaller but more bedrooms?

I’m gesturing at this general area at the idea that modern, industrial civilization is built around nuclear families but we have a lot more forms being generated now but still lagging behind in the idea/social practice/phys infrastructure to match.

Current Session "instructions" (Mar 5): Search. Search

Check out the search, go find some stuff, get involved with some old convos, find some people, let us know how it feels to y'all!

Thanks and love yall

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J (and the UpTrust team)
p.s. this week I'm on

Optional Zoom with Jordan at least, for faces, questions, help, etc

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I want a new archetype for libertarian well-being activist. Maybe it’s an old archetype and some German philosophers have been talking abt it for centuries…

My climbing gym is called Crux; the original location is moving because the rent is too high, and the landlord won’t work with the climbing gym…

The gym is in a part of the city that used be considered south, but now is centralish. I think all of austin loses when we lose places like this. We lose our character and our well being.

I want the landlord to be the libertarian well-being activist. My mom does this for the Relateful Studio. I didn’t ask and no one makes her; hardly anyone knows and she doesn’t get any tax benefits; we still pay her a good bit each month but it’s under market. She’s doing exactly what she wants to be doing with her money and investments: supporting her son’s vision.

The climbing gym landlord isn’t a bad guy, probably. Maybe he has loads of debt; maybe he has a wound from childhood that he’s trying to heal, but
Is the climbing gym landlord doing exactly what he wants?

I want endosymbiosis activists; where what they do is good for the whole and them, and they sacrifice neither. I want this to be a meme, that people strive to be. I want them to brag about it in their hearts, and try to remain undiscovered. I once heard that in Judaism the best mitzvahs are the ones no one knows you did.

What will the future literally look like? This idea comes from watching Mad Men- seeing smoking and drinking freely at the office for example, and my brother once pointing out that if a show or movie ever wanted to make it really clear that it was set in the 1990’s, all they’d have to do is have multiple people driving Saturn cars.

So here are a few of what I think (hope) the future will literally look like:

Gas stations will be very rare, and parking spaces will almost always have charging stations.

Having a garage in homes will be rare because car ownership will be rare. Using self-driving Uber-esque systems will be way more affordable, and car ownership then will be similar to antique car ownership now.

Lawns will be very rare, and permaculture-style of local fauna that doesn’t need care, upkeep, or watering will be common.

What do you think the future will look like?

Most of us have Community-Neglect. Common understanding that childhood emotional neglect is extremely damaging to a child.

Emotional neglect occurs when caregivers fail to provide the emotional support, validation, and attention children need during their formative years.

I would argue most of us also experienced childhood community neglect. We had inadequate community to provide the needs that traditional, healthy communities did: Rites of Passage, healthy modeling of different masculine/feminine archetypes, wide social support net, etc etc.

In my teens/20s/early 30s, the ideal was to be a passive income, world nomad. Now, I see a lot of people wanting to create intentional communities or ecovillages.

Most of these will fail because I think they never experienced a direct transmission of a healthy, working community. Just like a person who grew up with severe emotional neglect is going to have a hugely hard time with personal relationships.

Most of us have Community-Neglect. Common understanding that childhood emotional neglect is extremely damaging to a child.

Emotional neglect occurs when caregivers fail to provide the emotional support, validation, and attention children need during their formative years.

I would argue most of us also experienced childhood community neglect. We had inadequate community to provide the needs that traditional, healthy communities did: Rites of Passage, healthy modeling of different masculine/feminine archetypes, wide social support net, etc etc.

In my teens/20s/early 30s, the ideal was to be a passive income, world nomad. Now, I see a lot of people wanting to create intentional communities or ecovillages.

Most of these will fail because I think they never experienced a direct transmission of a healthy, working community. Just like a person who grew up with severe emotional neglect is going to have a hugely hard time with personal relationships.