Events

With SXSW in town, we’ll use this meetup as a chance to share the things we love to do in Austin. *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar, in the cafe area. Look for the LW and SSC signs. People start arriving at 1:30 pm, and the main activity (such as it […]

This Saturday we will be doing a Partitioned Book Club of the book Legal Systems Very Different From Ours. In a partitioned book club, different participants read different chapters and then summarize them for the group. We will take turns giving short summaries of the chapters, and then have a general discussion about the ideas

At this meetup, we will once again share what we’re working on and use the chance to provide each other with encouragement and advice. Are you building something? Working toward a fitness goal? Changing careers? Developing a skill? Share what you’re doing! And, where applicable, see if someone else can take over your project and

You don’t always have an instructor like me at two of our previous meetups to help you use the applied rationality techniques that CFAR teaches. Fortunately, LLMs can step in! Longtime member Chris Canal wrote up skills files that can be loaded into Claude.ai to teach it to work through the techniques with you. We’ll

After the success of last week, I’ll be teaching more rationality techniques from the CFAR Workshop. Hamming Questions: What’s your biggest problem right now? Okay, why aren’t you working on it? We’ll get to the root. Who-Friending: Forming more meaningful connections with others by surfacing your individuality, as well as theirs. Trigger Action Patterns: Adopting

Coming off the heels of a local CFAR workshop, I’ll lead us in practicing some applied rationality techniques: Resolve Cycles: Setting a timer to see how much of an important goal you can accomplish within the limit. Pride/Self-Recognition: Turning everyday annoyances into a part of your identity you can be proud of. Finding Cruxes: Probing

Lightning talks again! We’ll take turns giving one, aiming for about 5 minutes each. What is a lightning talk? It’s where you introduce the group to something you’re familiar with and are comfortable talking about. It doesn’t have to be “rationality related”, just something you have a good enough understanding of that you can take questions about from

To get to know each other better, we’ll share our favorite and least favorite movies and why. See if you can find someone with a sharply contrasting opinion and help better understand what shapes your tastes. *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar, in the cafe area. Look for the LW and

For a break from the usual, we’ll have an expert present to discuss OPEC, oil, the petrodollar, the energy industry, and what to expect from the future. *** The meetup is at Central Market, 4001 N. Lamar, in the cafe area. Look for the LW and SSC signs. People start arriving at 1:30 pm, and

With the new year comes our tradition of making resolutions and predictions for the next twelve months. We’ll make a label on Manifold and lock in our guesses for 2026! “And thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought” — Hamlet *** The meetup is at Central Market,