IRL social in an increasingly digital age: what does IRL offer uniquely?

New York NY

With the rise of social media and digital communication, many of us have grown accustomed to living our lives through screens. Social media has greatly expanded our options for connectivity, our number of social contacts, and the time we spend digitally connected. Still, loneliness has risen sharply among every age group around the world. The…

Free

Read Something Wonderful – A portal to timeless internet writing

Online

Join Ben Springwater, Co-Founder and CEO of the Matter reading app, to discuss novelty bias in our social media feeds, showing us what's new, not what's best, and why they built ReadSomethingWonderful to be a portal to timeless internet writing. A members-only fireside chat, moderated by Nicky Buttigieg. "Most of the best writing was not…

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Tools for Thought: Show-and-Tell

Online

What is your “tools for thought” stack? Pinterest or Are.na? Did you make a Notion template you’re excited about? What Obsidian plugins do you use? Ker Lee Yap wants to know! And I’m sure other cool people do too! Join this salon where we’ll go around share our personal digital systems and how we use…

$10.00

Education for the Information Age: Networked, Decentralized, Self-Sovereign.

Online

What does an Information Age education system look like and how do we get there? In this salon, Dominic Duffin will lead a conversation about the reinvention of education for the Information Age, through tech culture perspectives from venture capital to Bitcoin. Dominic sees a dichotomy between the use of technology to digitize processes and…

$15.00