Meetup : Berlin, practical rationality
Discussion article for the meetup : Berlin, practical rationality
As announced on the mailing list: The next meetup will happen on Friday, April 5th, 19:30 at my house and we’ll try something new. I declare it a ‘practical rationality’ or ‘work’ meetup, in which I’d like to establish some differences from the regular social gatherings we’ve done so far.
Have a plan. Schedule food and activities. Actually follow it.
Moderate discussion more strongly. Each subgroup will have one person responsible for keeping things on track, stop inadvertent topic switches, interrupt excessive anecdotes.
Will probably alternate with social meetups.
Here’s what I suggest for Friday:
19:30 − 20:00 - Settling down and food.
Edit: Fixme.
20:00 − 20:30 - What have you learned since we last met? What have you done?
This could be an interesting regular activity where we get a glimpse of what you’re doing and which could help seed discussion later. Everyone is prompted to talk, answers should be short (< 3 min).
20:30 − 21:15 - Discussion groups?
I’d like to try breaking into discussion groups. The idea is that there are a several people who’ve announced beforehand that they’d lead a discussion on some topic and have briefly studied it. At the meetup, they give a mini-presentation (5 minute-ish) and everyone else decides which group to join. At the end of the session, one person from each group summarises for everyone else.
Check the mailing list for topics.
21:15 - end—Chat.
See you there!
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