I'm mostly now on Substack

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Beings Club: A Place on the Internet

In January I started Beings Club, something I’ve been calling ‘a curiosity social club.’ Whilst that is a good way to describe it, it also feels like a place. Here are some thoughts about that place:An empty canvas is a gift. A shared adventure is joy. Every week, we gather to take time for ourselves and to meet one another. The Salon each Sunday begins at 8pm UTC and is opened with time to be intentional with a self-chosen practice. Following, members meet either 1:1 or in groups of 3. There...

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The Future of Higher

Essay 1: Higher is Not a Headless Brand Essay 2: The Token is The Problem and The Opportunity Essay 3: Higher ForeverAs I write, the two co-authors of Higher's Greenpaper, have just released new pieces of writing individually - LGHT deconstructing the Matrix we are currently enslaved to: Technology, Money, Design, and Media, and Jihad speaking to networks as product and agency as a desired network impact.Together they are pointing to the current state of things more broadly but perhaps there ...

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Higher Forever

In theory, a sufficiently deep practice can be continuously refined and is continuously relevant. ∞↑ by chshIn theory, a sufficiently deep practice can be continuously refined and is continuously relevant. If a practice is of true value to the world, even if it is not of obvious financial value, it will likely persist not only because it is durable, but also as people attempt to preserve it for future...

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The Token is The Problem and The Opportunity

It is important to note that the higher scene began before the HIGHER token was launched. In it's beginning, higher was simply a Warpcast channel, where people could meme higher without price talk. But then, along comes Martin - deploying a token and airdropping it to everyone in the channel. Importantly, distribution to the scene was whole. Meaning that everybody in the scene now had a form of financial exposure to the burgeoning scene. Some sold, and, ...

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Higher is Not a Headless Brand

higher is a brilliant group of intelligent and creative people. There is no shortage of talent amidst the network and committed contributors continue to create new value and experiment to collective benefit. In this series of essays, I am going to examine some challenges, and reframe them as an opportunity to come together and evolve our approach. In this essay, I want to explain how I see higher's core offering as distributing genius, as opposed to what people have been referring to as "bein...

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I started a curiosity social club

Six months ago, I walked into a cafe in Oxford, to talk to my friend Nick. Nick is interesting because he runs a bookshop inside that cafe, which you have to go all the way into, to find a staircase leading down to a former bank vault, in which he has set up a number of bookshelves - and a book shop. I was pitching to him the idea of an event where we would invite people on the basis of curiosity. I was calling it a new social experience for the curious. In essence, it involved carefully cura...

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higher mindfulness club

higher mindfulness club isn’t just a 6-month program; it’s an initiative designed to strengthen the higher scene and empower more individuals go higher. In this post I pitch the idea and outline my plan and request for funding.

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SUDDENLY FREE

I’m here in Malaysia at the moment, visiting family for Chinese New Year, aka The Lunar New Year. Only a month ago, everyone around me was celebrating the turn of the New Year in the UK.

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The Magic of No Prompts

When people first find out about the weekly Beings Club Salon Meetings, they’ll often ask: ‘Are there any topics to discuss?’, ‘Do you know what you’ll talk about?’ or ‘Is there a weekly theme?’ The answer to all of these questions is No.