Hello!
Thanks to those who came to the convos on “better social media” and “having kids” — very fun times.
🗣 Upcoming Sessions (✏️ signup form)
Psychedelics (cohosted with Carmen!) – April 8th
We’re deciding how to approach this one – whether it’s sharing psychedelic experiences, discussing implications for consciousness/reality, “bad trips”, practical tips for the curious, the ethics of psychedelics, etc.
Knowledge – April 15th.
For this one I’d like to spend ~15 mins sharing some of my current thoughts on epistemology (esp the work of Karl Popper/David Deutsch) and using that as a jumping off point for discussion. (This is probably the topic I have spent the most time obsessing about over the past year lmfao)
For the weeks after, some topics I’m thinking about are: “experiences with therapy”, “when is it ok to lie?”, “reason/rationality – reach and limits”, “competition”, “intelligence (artificial and non-artificial)”, “self-improvement”, among others.
🥤Post-Salon Watercooler (📆 calendar)
We pretty much always finish the convo with things left unsaid, and also I want to spend more time hanging out with y’all, so I’m setting up this 30-min “watercooler” time after salons for general hangs.
We can use the time to talk more, chill, play games, whatever. You can join the watercooler regardless of whether you made it to the salon.
The times/zoom link is on the salon calendar.
💻 Salon Community
I’ve found a lot of us have thoughts we wanna share with people after a conversation happens, and there’s currently no venue for that. I’m thinking about starting a small community where we can chat outside of the salon time, share thoughts/articles, brainstorm future salon topics, etc. I’ll start very small and I’ll very slowly add more people into it. If you’re especially excited about this, lemme know. In terms of platforms, thinking about FB Messenger/Discord/Slack, lemme know if you have ideas!
That’s it for this week!
Kasra