I guess many participants are still in Berlin, traveling back home or understandably quite exhausted (I’m having sore muscles still and I guess esp. for the after-event boldering group it’s much worse) ;-)
Many many thanks to the organizers from the Berlin LW meetup for making this possible. You did an awesome job and I think you found a great mix of talks, workshops and breaks (if you can call these intermissions packed with opportunities to engage in everything “breaks”). Also the location was nearly ideal with lots of inside and outside places to use. Did I mention the cuddle fort in the basement?
Now a roughly chronological log of activities I remembered especially fondly:
During Kajs workshop on growth circles (based on CFAR workshops) I got valuable feedback and ideas for new approaches on my most pressing challenges.
I very much liked the relating games. I already adapt them for my children and other settings.
Another thing I will try out is the model of motivation in teams developed by Tara. Or at least I will relate it to a colleague and will see whether we can apply it fruitfully (meeting already arranged).
I enjoyed the mutual comfort of the cuddle fort and had the opportunity for the first time to offer some massage to people I diodn’t already know that well. Apparently it was quite well received.
There were also countless inspiring, deep and/or fun discussion about artificial languages, cuddling, face blindness, future of humanity, limits of technology, lucid dreaming, machine learning, massage, parenting, relationships, tulipas and many more topics.
All of this was rounded up by the sustainable change talk which prompted us to start acting on what we learned and I arrived at these points:
Resolve some immediate questions from the event,
Put my notes into structured form and then into my Anki deck(s).
Reconsider loving kindness meditation.
Exchange contact information (which I forgot last time) and
Find someone who’d agree to periodically asks me for progress on my parenting blog.
Sadly I failed on the last item, but I precommitted on organizing another LessWrong Hamburg Meetup and already got some positive feedback in that direction. Cheers Neike!
The event was rounded up with a moving key note and a group photo (“3-2-1- victory!) on the outside.
Many many cheers to all participants! Without you this wouldn’t have been possible! You are awesome!
I would very much appreciate that! E-Mail should be totally fine (I have seen your E-Mail on the list).
About a week ago I started a routine to work on the blog at least a bit every day. That routine was broken by the LW weekend and I’m still processing all the input from the event (retaining the memory seems more important than keeping the routine). But I want to pick up the work on the blog tomorrow. I don’t think it is necessary to ask me every day but I think I should have some progress to tell about every week.
I guess many participants are still in Berlin, traveling back home or understandably quite exhausted (I’m having sore muscles still and I guess esp. for the after-event boldering group it’s much worse) ;-)
Many many thanks to the organizers from the Berlin LW meetup for making this possible. You did an awesome job and I think you found a great mix of talks, workshops and breaks (if you can call these intermissions packed with opportunities to engage in everything “breaks”). Also the location was nearly ideal with lots of inside and outside places to use. Did I mention the cuddle fort in the basement?
Now a roughly chronological log of activities I remembered especially fondly:
During Kajs workshop on growth circles (based on CFAR workshops) I got valuable feedback and ideas for new approaches on my most pressing challenges.
I very much liked the relating games. I already adapt them for my children and other settings.
Another thing I will try out is the model of motivation in teams developed by Tara. Or at least I will relate it to a colleague and will see whether we can apply it fruitfully (meeting already arranged).
I enjoyed the mutual comfort of the cuddle fort and had the opportunity for the first time to offer some massage to people I diodn’t already know that well. Apparently it was quite well received.
I was deeply impressed by the Seven Secular Sermons.
There were also countless inspiring, deep and/or fun discussion about artificial languages, cuddling, face blindness, future of humanity, limits of technology, lucid dreaming, machine learning, massage, parenting, relationships, tulipas and many more topics.
All of this was rounded up by the sustainable change talk which prompted us to start acting on what we learned and I arrived at these points:
Resolve some immediate questions from the event,
Put my notes into structured form and then into my Anki deck(s).
Reconsider loving kindness meditation.
Exchange contact information (which I forgot last time) and
Find someone who’d agree to periodically asks me for progress on my parenting blog.
Sadly I failed on the last item, but I precommitted on organizing another LessWrong Hamburg Meetup and already got some positive feedback in that direction. Cheers Neike!
The event was rounded up with a moving key note and a group photo (“3-2-1- victory!) on the outside.
Many many cheers to all participants! Without you this wouldn’t have been possible! You are awesome!
Hi Gunnar, it was great meeting you in the event!
Regarding the “failed” item, I would gladly volunteer to ask you if this is something that can be accomplished over e-mail.
Cheers!
I would very much appreciate that! E-Mail should be totally fine (I have seen your E-Mail on the list).
About a week ago I started a routine to work on the blog at least a bit every day. That routine was broken by the LW weekend and I’m still processing all the input from the event (retaining the memory seems more important than keeping the routine). But I want to pick up the work on the blog tomorrow. I don’t think it is necessary to ask me every day but I think I should have some progress to tell about every week.
Great! Expect my queries once a week. :)
Got your query and answered it. The commitment made me anticipate you query and did help to pick up work on it.