<aside> 💡 A vision for an intentional space in the heart of SF that sparks connection, aliveness, belonging, and growth on all levels of the community in the spirit of The Infinite Game. The proposal is an invitation to engage in that vision and help bring the space to life.

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Context

1. Where are our living rooms, our cafes, our churches, and our homes? I want to talk, grow, heal, learn, play, and build and my screens will not do. I want to share what's hardest and heaviest on my heart with you, but also my wildest dreams. Can we build a new culture together?
2. We're going to space! Literally. We're going to be dust – our corporations and governments don't seem pressed to solve our climate crisis. We're in a new age of collaboration and collaboration – Web 3.0 is here, and we will buy up our Constitutions and our friends' art. We're in an age of peril – the Metaverse is upon us and it's Zuck's for the taking. We seem to be waking up and falling asleep to the promise and peril of our moment every day, and fate seems to play with our hearts and minds.
3. Can we not all come alive? Out of our listlessness and spiritual malaise, out of our purposelessness and despair? All we want is to be – be here, be alive, and be together. Is asking that for 7 billion people too much to ask for?
4. We believe that

I find that many of my friends and peers are experiencing a confluence of forces. We're increasingly working remotely, spending time at home, learning on the internet, and displaced from a sense of belonging or community.

How could we possibly sum up our feelings of simultaneous excitement for the explosion of growth, coordination, and innovation within many of the communities we're a part of, the uncertainty and listlessness around our existing cultural and political institutions

many ways to summarize our lived experiences as Why is it that we have an explosion of technological innovation and material progress in parts of

As our time becomes more and more filled with the digital, I find that many peers are looking for a simple and earnest sense of home. On a personal level, many of us are growing, stretching, and working in various capacities but the distributed nature of digital communities can create a lack of integration around our development. We see our few roommates at home, co-workers on Zoom, fellow netizens on Twitter, and strangers at the local bar. Places to continually return to and see familiar faces, integrate our visions for a better world and share openly our insecurities, hopes, and dreams, and generally feel a sense of belonging are far and few between. Integrating our minds, bodies, hearts, and souls seems harder and harder to do. Where are our living rooms, our cafes, our churches, our homes – and if we find them, will anyone else show up?

Culturally, we are also looking for a new home. The shared values, beliefs, and narratives that animate our governments, corporations, and communities can leave us feeling neglected, listless, and lonely. Cooperation and compassion, purpose and imagination aren't words that make up our shared lexicon, while competitive, extractive, or fearful rhetoric is much more common. Perhaps as a result, we all seem to be wondering whether our existing governments, companies, and monopolies will actually take care of the wellbeing of us and our fellow citizens.

competition and extraction seem to bedifferent kind of home. Our old systems and institutions don't quite offer us the sense of wellbeing and hopeful visions we reasonably expect. Other interestsOther private interests seem to creep into our politics, our vocations,

Our spiritual and emotional development is siloed to private conversations while our vocations and visions for a better world are filtered in the twittersphere. Where are our living rooms, our churches, our cafes, and our rooftops, and can we expect anyone to truly show up?

On a cultural level,

people know this aliveness and belonging but it is missing in their lives

our systems are at a pivotal moment... old systems are breaking, new systems are monopolizing, and coordination around our world's biggest questions is failing

the explosion of digital community has been a boon for technological innovation, liquidity and investment, and emergent coordination around movements such as Web3