Former cognitive science researcher (Yale, UChicago) Former startup-maker (Reserve, The Think Tank) ”Former” artist & graphic designer Current novel-writer & NYC neighborhood co-builder
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🖼 Aesthetic movements 🤡 Clowning (the court jester & sacred fool as a role that that keeps groups alive) 🧠 Heterogenous collective intelligence 👻 Group mind phenomena (egregores, "psychofauna") 👨👩👧👦 It-takes-a-village-style parenthood 🤝 Nonverbal communication (contact improv, physical theatre, bodywork) 🧞♂️ Shared mythos (& the relevance of fiction, LARPs)
💪 Solidarity, how to get it without the downsides (eg group think/nepotism) 💡 Successor ideologies to Effective Altruism 👹 Vajrayana 🫂 Wholesome relationships, how to foster them
Tyler has a mysterious gut condition
💡 My Effective Altruism critique
Scenius/creative clusters throughout history