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Stephen
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Building a Mindful City 🇧🇹 Amplifying Wise Connection in a Complex World 🙏 Repairing Relationships 💙 Amplifying Awareness ☀️
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Omg wow! Yeah that was some goooood TV.
January 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
…in the middle of orange-green—which is exactly what I would have guessed from my interactions, and predicted from the training data coming from the median internet user! Although LLM capabilities have dramatically increased, I don’t think developmental maturity has at all."
—Jordan Myska Allen 🧵3/3
December 21, 2024 at 12:23 AM
…higher-order complexity (e.g., meta-systemic, integral). We should be taking that into account.

*This isn’t just my opinion—in late 2022 Integral Life put GPT3 through world-renowned developmental Loevinger/Cook-Greuter’s Sentence Completion Test and found its responses smack-dab… 🧵2/x
December 21, 2024 at 12:21 AM
“Snack”
December 11, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Movie is “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” (2019)
December 11, 2024 at 1:19 PM
December 11, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Not yet! Actively in talks with multiple Bhutanese about opportunities to visit, study, and maybe even work. I have the same intuition that just immersing there for a while is the next step.
December 7, 2024 at 6:23 AM
So I have a 2-fold question for you...

1. In your opinion, and given what you know about me and the GMC, what would you recommend I do?
2. Who in Bhutan could you connect me with? Closer to the GMC project, the better.

Many thanks in advance, and may you have a wonderful day. ☀️

www.gmc.bt
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Gelephu Mindfulness City – Gelephu
www.gmc.bt
December 6, 2024 at 11:10 PM
I am prepared to fundraise and invest significant time, money, and effort to do this. It's that heart-movingly meaningful to me. The closest feeling I can compare this to is the boundless passion and drive that American engineers in the 1960's must have felt to contribute to the Moon Landings. 🧵 6/x
December 6, 2024 at 11:07 PM
This could look a number of ways. Perhaps getting a Masters Degree somewhere (maybe in Bhutan itself?), perhaps joining an organization that is now or will be involved in the GMC, perhaps building a business that can fulfill a need that the GMC will have in 3-5 years. Maybe all of the above. 🧵 5/x
December 6, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Fortunately, I am at a point in my life where, over the next few years, I could intentionally develop myself to become much more useful to the GMC than I am today. I could build on the skills I already have (in technology, mindfulness, and facilitation), and also acquire new ones if necessary. 🧵 4/x
December 6, 2024 at 11:06 PM
To whatever extent I can, I want to contribute to this epic vision for how we could live sustainably, mindfully, and responsibly together on a massive scale. I think it's the dopest fucking thing we're doing on Earth right now. 🧵 3/x
December 6, 2024 at 11:05 PM
As I'm about 2 months and 40 cumulative hours into researching it, the Gelephu Mindfulness City (recently featured on 60 Minutes, link in comments) is becoming even more profoundly inspiring to me. Like, I am IN LOVE with this city, y'all. 🧵2/x
December 6, 2024 at 11:05 PM
LET’s FUCKING GOOOOOO
November 30, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Chonky Kitteh & Birb
November 26, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Oof. He’s so clean here. This is anger/clarity/compassion channeled skillfully in service of Truth.

And I feel that weariness too. These conversations are tough.

Thx for sharing 🙏
November 25, 2024 at 12:35 AM