Author of "Rethinking Sex: A Provocation" (https://xitter.cf/t.co/xs49Yjuzbs). Senior Fellow @AEI. Previously: @TheAtlantic, @WashingtonPost. Generally curious!
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Joined August 2011
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i got so scared and then laughed so loud
My experience partying all night at Berghain in Berlin made me think of how we're lacking this experience in the San Francisco tech scene. We can literally become the coolest, most tasteful social scene on Earth if we had our version of Berghain, but better. So let's build it. The best aspect of Berhain is how they select who gets in. The club has a vibe and atmosphere, and if you aren't wearing the right clothes or have the right demeanor, you don't get in. That's how you cultivate a tasteful crowd. We can improve on this by only letting in high agency, talented operators in the tech scene who can still pull off dope outfits, so no geeks. SF is in dire need of late night venues, and Berghain goes until 8am. That's a little too crazy for high net worth operators who are changing the world so we could do something like 2am. Berghain also is kinda dark and in a weird building so we'd put the club in a SoMa corporate office that we convert to speakeasy or barcade vibe. Maybe add a quiet area for people to bring their laptops and work? I honestly feel like we're improving on the Berghain form here, especially by swapping out the crowd of weird partiers in inappropriate clothes (or lack there of) with insanely cracked founders and engineers. I'm super stoked about this idea, SF tech could really run the dopest parties on the planet.
OUT: "Best"
OUT: "Sincerely"
IN: "Godspeed to us both"
IN: "Warm regards from the mortal plane"
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Launch party in DC with @WCrowdsLive
@ChristineEmba @sckimbriel hosted a great discussion on the book "Can Religion Save Democracy"
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Hilma af Klint gave childhood a blue background. Youth turns orange, adulthood purple, old age ocher across The Ten Largest. Childhood, No. 1. 1907.
Tempera on paper mounted on canvas. With swatches, discs and colored cubes.
SF *really* leaning into doom. A generally unhelpful approach! (even if i'm tempted by it sometimes myself)
Attention San Francisco: I will be giving a talk explaining why civilizations collapse and why our own high technology civilization might be uniquely vulnerable, this Sunday evening for @palladiummag.
Tickets are limited. Get yours here:
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Tomorrow evening in Washington, DC: join us for a conversation with @RichardVReeves, author of, "Of Boys and Men," and @ChristineEmba: why are many struggling and how can we -- including the church -- support them to flourish? October 13, 6:15–8:30 pm. Register here: ttf.org/events/evening-conve…
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saw a handsome man sitting by himself, conspicuously reading a ww2 book at the le diplomate bar… i know bait when i see it
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This, above all else.
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A senior at Harvard observes “a narrative emerging among young people that more than just consent is required to make a sex act ethical.”
“In the Cornell Daily Sun, a student says fraternities function as ‘a market, where women are seen as commodities.’”
“A Dartmouth contributor lambasts frat culture where brothers ‘humiliate and degrade’ and that teaches ‘men to treat women and each other like subhuman objects.’”
“The emerging picture is of a sexual ethic that cannot be satisfied simply by one liberal-autonomous agent assenting to the action of another. The new ethic requires upholding the dignity and respect of the human being involved. Respecting women is incompatible with drug-fueled orgies where the ‘shop’ is ‘open,’ regardless of how consensual said orgy may or may not be.”
...good?
A French high school teacher suggests that a phone ban helped lead to riots legrandcontinent.eu/fr/diman…
a predilection for tanning shirtless briefly took my results in an alarming direction, but we recovered
You asked, we delivered. The @JoinFAI Field Guide to the Tribes of Silicon Valley is live now.
27 tribes, a few easter eggs, and a 3-minute quiz (just for fun).
tribes.thefai.org
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One week from today, AEI will host a book event for @dcoxpolls’s Generation Uncoupled with @ChristineEmba and Christine Rosen.
RSVP below.
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