<div dir="ltr">Oh God yes, costume revival class of 2014!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com" target="_blank">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would come once a month at least if we did it like this. And I'd bring costumes.<br>
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On 2/26/14 2:03 AM, Praveen Sinha wrote:<br>
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I just got back from my second consensus night this month. I go<br>
intermittently since the near start of the physical space, and these<br>
last few times have been really challenging. People are at odds with<br>
each other in whole new and unique and diverse ways. With that, I've<br>
been thinking of some new practices we could incorporate:<br>
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1) *We actually need to make it even more theatrical.* I suggest that<div class=""><br>
we have beginning and intermediate and end interludes where everyone<br>
just becomes comically theatrical. People can act out as Viking<br>
warlords and take out their frustrations on each other. People can<br>
recite/sing/ a mini opera. We can have a Lady Ada drag queen and a<br>
Richard Stallman drag king. Who the hell knows. Let's blow some of our<br>
budget on ouchy the clown [1] or one of the other dozen clown dom<br>
moderators living in this city if they haven't been gentrified out already.<br></div>
*I know this sounds completely insane. But hear me out*, there's logic<div class=""><br>
behind it. a) it will be fun in a completely insane way which will b)<br>
make people a little bit more in a good mood and take things a little<br>
less seriously and c) MOST importantly! Such injections of random<br>
noise will make people more playful and thus more creative and think out<br>
of the box more! There's even a name for it, it's called jittering, and<br>
it's used often in machine learning and the source of the name of<br>
noisebridge [2]. Wouldn't that be AWESOME [3] to have at consensus<br>
meeting?<br>
2) Listen. One of our primary goals as a culture in a space should be<br>
to increase people's engagement. One source of both disengagement and<br>
drama is BURNOUT. Studies have shown that burnout is caused by LACK OF<br>
RECOGNITION/GRATITUDE. In fact, frequent recognition, especially that<br></div>
which is reward and not outcome based [4]. To address this,*I suggest<div class=""><br>
that we start a culture of recognition by having a modification of the<br></div>
hippie/buddhist/therapist "tunnel of love"*. In this, we go around all<div class=""><br>
giving each other what we are thankful for in each other -- and if you<br>
don't know the person, you can give a compliment. Over time, such a<br>
thing would reduce burnout in core members. We can start with building<br>
it into the weekly introductions.<br>
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Yes, I know that other spaces will make fun of noisebridge. Well, to<br>
that I say, fuck 'em if they can't take a joke [5]! No but seriously.<br>
No other space out there would be capable of this.<br>
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I appreciate any feedback and look forward to refining our stake in<br>
better futures.<br>
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With love and hugs,<br>
praveen<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.ouchytheclown.com/meet.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.ouchytheclown.com/<u></u>meet.shtml</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>Jitter</a> I bet a lot of you don't really<br>
know what a Noisebridge IS even though you come here all the time! A<br>
noisebridge and it's applications is truly fascinating: the idea is<br>
using randomess as a diagnostic/repair tools and it works in circuits,<br>
machine learning, and physical neural brains like yours! Ask around if<br>
you want to get a better understanding!<br>
[3] I can't say "awesome" without a plug for the awesome foundation<br>
<a href="http://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/sf" target="_blank">http://www.awesomefoundation.<u></u>org/en/chapters/sf</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23055916" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/<u></u>pubmed/23055916</a><br>
[5] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>Church_of_the_SubGenius</a><br>
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