AMA with Jordan Myska Allen. Wednesday 2/4 at 12:30pm CST
Founder and CEO of UpTrust, founder of Relatefulness... solving seemingly impossible social problems and having fun doing it
#heywait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8D9l1s2BsAMA with Jordan Myska Allen. Wednesday 2/4 at 12:30pm CST
Founder and CEO of UpTrust, founder of Relatefulness... solving seemingly impossible social problems and having fun doing it
#heywait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH8D9l1s2BsDating is over.
discuss...
I’m thinking about communities that might vibe with UpTrust — groups of people who feel like existing platforms don’t quite work for them, or who are actively looking for something better.
Maybe they’re academic groups, or small think-tanks, or even informal circles where sharing perspective is part of how they connect.
A couple questions I’d love your thoughts on:
– What kinds of groups or communities come to mind? Whether or not you’re connected to them, who do you think UpTrust is for?
– Are you part of — or close to — any communities like this? If so, I’d love to hear more.
Appreciate any reflections, names, hunches, or breadcrumbs 🍞
Some folks in NYC turned an apartment into a community space in a way that sounds (at least on the face of it) pretty delightful: https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/case-study-merlins-place
Makes me wonder about doing something like that in my home – but then i find myself getting antsy. I like having a haven of quiet mineness – might even need it.
But also, when I read that post, something comes alive in me. It feels really exciting to imagine being a part of a community/space like this. Having a village sounds really nice (at least when I romanticize it and ignore the fact that there's a reason for the phrase "village idiot").
(meta: this post is also an effort to see if I can make this place feel like that. Feels like it needs to be able to include this kind of half-baked personal missive in addition to "bridgy" expertise and conversations about civilizational well-being. Technically, it can, of course. But spiritually? I'm not sure. I mean, it might just be that I don't particularly gravitate towards being part of a mostly textual virtual space. :shrug:)
I like using the word "God.". I understand that a lot of people feel like it’s too vague and easy to misinterpret. But I don’t want to throw out such a beautiful, big part of human history because of a level-line fallacy
- confusing all of Religion or the spiritual line of development for the Amber/conformist/fundamentalist version of a particular religion.
I wish i could more clearly articulate why I love the word and what I mean by it, but right now all I’ve got it’s this antithesis.
... No belief is true, no matter how popular or plausible