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Which is more memorable, a Bitcoin or a Spherical Concert Hall?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Bitcoin is undoubtedly a magnificent crypto-asset, but how does it stack up to peak experiences in lived life, in its overall value? Does the moral choice to enjoy possession of bitcoin survive consideration of the alternative possibility of creating a spherical concert hall, for example? Though I’m very long on bitcoin (which is already at […]
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Taking Burning Man Online with the Sparkleverse.
Reading Time: 13 minutes Burning Man is Going Online To many of those who co-create it every year, Burning Man isn’t just the best party in the world, it’s the best place in the world. For the sole purpose of the experience of doing so, seventy thousand people engage in the pleasurable inconvenience of conjuring an ephemeral city in a […]
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Memorable dreams
Reading Time: 2 minutes It isn’t just because our dreams are more interesting than our actual lives that they’re so worth remembering. There’s a further advantage: detailed dream-memory fosters the understanding that can enable us to recognize our dreams as they occur. If we can do that, then we can have the pleasure of taking control. And lucid dreaming, […]
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21 things we learned from hosting our first online party
Reading Time: 10 minutes Parties are at the heart of most of what is good in human life: love, friendship, fun, escape, spiritual exploration. It’s obviously therefore of great importance that we continue partying despite any physical distancing. But how to host decent parties online? It’s not like anyone was attending online parties before the lockdown. Last week, I […]
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How to design epic online parties
Reading Time: 25 minutes Parties are at the heart of most of what is good in human life: love, friendship, transcendence, escape, spiritual exploration, fun, desire, music, dance, open-mindedness. It’s obviously therefore of great importance that we continue partying despite physical distancing. But how to host decent parties online? First-rate theoretical analysis has revealed that there are ten universal […]