This seems similar to Leverage in a lot of ways. It seems like it would be really instructive to contrast your plan with Leverage’s plan—as initially intended, and as executed—to see what you plan to invest in that they aren’t, what you’re not doing that they are, and costs and benefits of those differences.
Other contrasting case studies might also add clarity:
Esalen
kibbutzim
the old Singularity Institute house
residential colleges
fraternities
Buddhist monasteries
Christian monasteries
actual armies
actual paramilitary organizations / militias
Sea Org
It probably makes sense to 64⁄4 these with rough sketches from memory/stereotypes/Wikipedia-ing before bothering to do any time-intensive research.
Yep. I don’t have strong ties to Leverage, but I’m talking with a couple of the people and have friends involved who have better models than me. +1 to this point.
Esalen is worth noting because it’s a place that’s extremely intellectually productive. There are many different paradigms of bodywork that come out of Esalen.
Esalen is central for the history of Feldenkrais, Rolfing and a bunch of other paradigms.
If you could build a community that succeeds to do for rationality what Esalen did for bodywork that would be a huge success.
In his Cargo Cult speech Feymann describes the place by saying:
Most people believe so many wonderful things that I decided to investigate why they did. And what has been referred to as my curiosity for investigation has landed me in a difficulty where I found so much junk to talk about that I can’t do it in this talk. I’m overwhelmed. First I started out by investigating various ideas of mysticism, and mystic experiences. I went into isolation tanks (they’re dark and quiet and you float in Epsom salts) and got many hours of hallucinations, so I know something about that. Then I went to Esalen, which is a hotbed of this kind of thought (it’s a wonderful place; you should go visit there). Then I became overwhelmed. I didn’t realize how much there was.
I was sitting, for example, in a hot bath and there’s another guy and a girl in the bath. He says to the girl, “I’m learning massage and I wonder if I could practice on you?” She says OK, so she gets up on a table and he starts off on her foot—working on her big toe and pushing it around. Then he turns to what is apparently his instructor, and says, “I feel a kind of dent. Is that the pituitary?” And she says, “No, that’s not the way it feels.” I say, “You’re a hell of a long way from the pituitary, man.” And they both looked at me—I had blown my cover, you see—and she said, “It’s reflexology.” So I closed my eyes and appeared to be meditating.
The Pareto Principle says that you can 80:20 many things, i.e. get 80% of the value from 20% of the work. If you 80:20 the 20%, you end up with 64% of the value for 4% of the work.
This seems similar to Leverage in a lot of ways. It seems like it would be really instructive to contrast your plan with Leverage’s plan—as initially intended, and as executed—to see what you plan to invest in that they aren’t, what you’re not doing that they are, and costs and benefits of those differences.
Other contrasting case studies might also add clarity:
Esalen
kibbutzim
the old Singularity Institute house
residential colleges
fraternities
Buddhist monasteries
Christian monasteries
actual armies
actual paramilitary organizations / militias
Sea Org
It probably makes sense to 64⁄4 these with rough sketches from memory/stereotypes/Wikipedia-ing before bothering to do any time-intensive research.
Yep. I don’t have strong ties to Leverage, but I’m talking with a couple of the people and have friends involved who have better models than me. +1 to this point.
Esalen is worth noting because it’s a place that’s extremely intellectually productive. There are many different paradigms of bodywork that come out of Esalen.
Esalen is central for the history of Feldenkrais, Rolfing and a bunch of other paradigms.
If you could build a community that succeeds to do for rationality what Esalen did for bodywork that would be a huge success.
What is Esalen?
The Wikipedia page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esalen_Institute
In his Cargo Cult speech Feymann describes the place by saying:
What does this mean? Google isn’t helping and the only mention I see on LW is this post.
The Pareto Principle says that you can 80:20 many things, i.e. get 80% of the value from 20% of the work. If you 80:20 the 20%, you end up with 64% of the value for 4% of the work.