I attended the Center for Applied Rationality’s June rationality camp in Berkeley, and would very much like to have a full-time living environment similar to the environment at camp. I’m very interested in joining or working to create a living environment that values open communication and epistemic hygiene, facilitates house-wide life-hacking experimentation, provides a collaborative, fulfilling environment to live and work in, and those sorts of things.
I’ll finish my computer science degree in May, and I plan to make changes to my living situation at that time. I plan to apply a portion of my time over the next ten months to identifying and assessing potential living environments, and I am interested in collaborating with others throughout the process. Contact me if you think collaboration could be mutually beneficial (I would rather you err on the side of contacting me.)
I started a software development company last summer under which I have been developing a web application that assesses tasks’ utility in order to suggest high-utility tasks to users. I have not publicly released the application, but I use it daily to manage my own tasks. Contingent on my startup remaining a high-utility prospect in my mind, I’d like to work on it full-time after I graduate. I am very interested in live-work arrangements (e.g. working and living on the same premises), or in living close to a coworking space or an affordable office space.
My finances are limited right now. That would change if I got a full-time software engineering job once I graduate, but I’d rather work for my startup and finance things through part-time or contract work if necessary (if you’re interested in hiring me, please contact me.) I’m especially interested in collaborating with other programmers, working in Python or Go, working on data visualizations in D3, programming rationality exercises, or working on something that qualifies as “data science”.
I live in Kansas, and it’s alright here. I preferred the weather in Berkeley when I visited there last month. I think I would enjoy living in the San Francisco bay area, but the cost of living is high there. I’m interested in identifying affordable places to live that are competitive with the amenities of the bay area. I’m also very interested in meeting and networking with potential roommates.
In terms of resources, I have found Sperling’s BestPlaces to have a lot of good information about U.S. cities.
I share your interest in a rationality and life-hacking house. I’d like to coordinate with you on that, if only to help see that it happens. I wonder how it might intersect with my friend’s interest in creating a neighborhood of “Tiny Houses”—affordable and economic housing, that definitely forces you to be aware of all your stuffs’ utility.
Also think programming of rationality exercises is a good idea. I’ve been ruminating on the idea of starting a less intensive but more long-term version of minicamp in my area, that I’ve in good humor dubbed “Nanocamp”. Online practice exercises is one way to keep lessons consistent and progress trackable.
Coordinate: Bounce ideas off each other through skype/email, draft roommate agreements, partially finance if I can, move in myself, plan and lead house projects, etc.
Like minicamp is still very different from minicamp when you’re talking about going from four days together to all-year-round. Is this targeted towards young graduate-age? It’s going to be a very different kettle of fish depending on whether college is involved, or kids.
The actual place seems less important to me than that I actually like and trust the people next to me. That’s probably why I like the idea of the mini-camp house so much; I implicitly trusted everyone at mini-camp. This was partially because I pegged the group as coming from a demographic that was unlikely to screw people over a priori, partially because I trusted that most people there would have good reason and an admirable plan before trying something, and partially because I’d gotten all sentimental and couldn’t help but identify the group as my tribe. But there wasn’t enough time or pressure there to be proven right or wrong. We’d have to work hard and intentionally to keep an enriching, collaborative environment like that going long-term. The exact kind of intentionality I haven’t seen put into keeping in touch after minicamp, by myself or anyone else. (That’s harder to admit than I thought it would be, that I’ve been failing miserably in my plans to keep these connections open and that it counts as evidence against the feasibility of creating my own long-term community.)
As far as places go, my mind keeps being drawn back to my friend’s efforts to create a tiny house neighborhood. It’s highly available to me, and the criteria just seem to overlap so well. Affordable, good amenities, close to working places, intentional community… I’ll get back to you about actual places once I finish my own research.
I have assumed a certain level of compromise when considering living situations. For example, I have assumed that people would not be willing to move a specific city for the primary purpose of joining an awesome living environment, but would instead be willing only to optimize within preexisting geographical constraints.
If there were enough people willing to relocate somewhere for the primary purpose of establishing an awesome living environment, that opens up a new class of opportunities more appealing than the ones I’ve been considering. For example, if there were several people interested in working for their own startups, maybe they could lease a building together, or utilize collective purchasing to lower the costs of bookkeeping or legal services. (Is anyone interested in doing that?)
I think such an intentional living community would be significantly more difficult to create than finding a few compatible roommates in a particular city, but I’m willing to look into it further.
I feel like the first paragraph of my original explanation of my situation addressed this, so maybe I don’t understand what you’re asking. Can you either rephrase your question or give an example of the kind of response you’re looking for?
I attended the Center for Applied Rationality’s June rationality camp in Berkeley, and would very much like to have a full-time living environment similar to the environment at camp. I’m very interested in joining or working to create a living environment that values open communication and epistemic hygiene, facilitates house-wide life-hacking experimentation, provides a collaborative, fulfilling environment to live and work in, and those sorts of things.
I’ll finish my computer science degree in May, and I plan to make changes to my living situation at that time. I plan to apply a portion of my time over the next ten months to identifying and assessing potential living environments, and I am interested in collaborating with others throughout the process. Contact me if you think collaboration could be mutually beneficial (I would rather you err on the side of contacting me.)
I started a software development company last summer under which I have been developing a web application that assesses tasks’ utility in order to suggest high-utility tasks to users. I have not publicly released the application, but I use it daily to manage my own tasks. Contingent on my startup remaining a high-utility prospect in my mind, I’d like to work on it full-time after I graduate. I am very interested in live-work arrangements (e.g. working and living on the same premises), or in living close to a coworking space or an affordable office space.
My finances are limited right now. That would change if I got a full-time software engineering job once I graduate, but I’d rather work for my startup and finance things through part-time or contract work if necessary (if you’re interested in hiring me, please contact me.) I’m especially interested in collaborating with other programmers, working in Python or Go, working on data visualizations in D3, programming rationality exercises, or working on something that qualifies as “data science”.
I live in Kansas, and it’s alright here. I preferred the weather in Berkeley when I visited there last month. I think I would enjoy living in the San Francisco bay area, but the cost of living is high there. I’m interested in identifying affordable places to live that are competitive with the amenities of the bay area. I’m also very interested in meeting and networking with potential roommates.
In terms of resources, I have found Sperling’s BestPlaces to have a lot of good information about U.S. cities.
I share your interest in a rationality and life-hacking house. I’d like to coordinate with you on that, if only to help see that it happens. I wonder how it might intersect with my friend’s interest in creating a neighborhood of “Tiny Houses”—affordable and economic housing, that definitely forces you to be aware of all your stuffs’ utility.
Also think programming of rationality exercises is a good idea. I’ve been ruminating on the idea of starting a less intensive but more long-term version of minicamp in my area, that I’ve in good humor dubbed “Nanocamp”. Online practice exercises is one way to keep lessons consistent and progress trackable.
Taboo “coordinate”.
What do you think are the best places to live?
Coordinate: Bounce ideas off each other through skype/email, draft roommate agreements, partially finance if I can, move in myself, plan and lead house projects, etc.
Like minicamp is still very different from minicamp when you’re talking about going from four days together to all-year-round. Is this targeted towards young graduate-age? It’s going to be a very different kettle of fish depending on whether college is involved, or kids.
The actual place seems less important to me than that I actually like and trust the people next to me. That’s probably why I like the idea of the mini-camp house so much; I implicitly trusted everyone at mini-camp. This was partially because I pegged the group as coming from a demographic that was unlikely to screw people over a priori, partially because I trusted that most people there would have good reason and an admirable plan before trying something, and partially because I’d gotten all sentimental and couldn’t help but identify the group as my tribe. But there wasn’t enough time or pressure there to be proven right or wrong. We’d have to work hard and intentionally to keep an enriching, collaborative environment like that going long-term. The exact kind of intentionality I haven’t seen put into keeping in touch after minicamp, by myself or anyone else. (That’s harder to admit than I thought it would be, that I’ve been failing miserably in my plans to keep these connections open and that it counts as evidence against the feasibility of creating my own long-term community.)
As far as places go, my mind keeps being drawn back to my friend’s efforts to create a tiny house neighborhood. It’s highly available to me, and the criteria just seem to overlap so well. Affordable, good amenities, close to working places, intentional community… I’ll get back to you about actual places once I finish my own research.
Thanks for this detailed post!
I have assumed a certain level of compromise when considering living situations. For example, I have assumed that people would not be willing to move a specific city for the primary purpose of joining an awesome living environment, but would instead be willing only to optimize within preexisting geographical constraints.
If there were enough people willing to relocate somewhere for the primary purpose of establishing an awesome living environment, that opens up a new class of opportunities more appealing than the ones I’ve been considering. For example, if there were several people interested in working for their own startups, maybe they could lease a building together, or utilize collective purchasing to lower the costs of bookkeeping or legal services. (Is anyone interested in doing that?)
I think such an intentional living community would be significantly more difficult to create than finding a few compatible roommates in a particular city, but I’m willing to look into it further.
Kansas is not as much as a disadvantage as it used to be, with Google Fiber at $70/month.
What are you trying to optimize for?
I feel like the first paragraph of my original explanation of my situation addressed this, so maybe I don’t understand what you’re asking. Can you either rephrase your question or give an example of the kind of response you’re looking for?
Madison Wisconsin!