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Amer Ameen's avatar

I love this! Your essay distills your wealth of experiences into practical wisdom that we can all easily integrate into everything from small gatherings to big pop up villages! Thank you for sharing and excited to read more of your writing!

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Simon Ohler's avatar

very nice very good vibe magick

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Sue-Li's avatar

hi ananta! i found your talk at fractal on sunday really valuable - specifically this topic of frictionlessness re the choices you made for yourself with your project design. after the talk i found myself much more confidently making my next big project selection choice, you really helped me access permission to choose from aliveness and enthusiasm - super useful for me because i have been someone who has often in the past really struggled to make life decisions. so thank you so much!

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ananta's avatar

hey Suelizzle! wow thank you for sharing! so glad to hear that!

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Cha's avatar

Wow. This piece captures something I’ve felt but haven’t seen articulated with such clarity before. I especially appreciated how coherence isn't about control but creating the conditions for flow. Also loved the musical metaphor for group composition: not just gathering beautiful notes, but building harmonies. That feels so relevant right now as so many of us are experimenting with new formats of living and working together. It’s a reminder that curation isn’t about picking the "best" people, but about sensing what the group wants to become.

Maybe one day we get to cocreate an event together? <3

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ananta's avatar

thanks Cha <3

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Grant Hale's avatar

Wow this was the classic "been-slightly-thinking-about-these-things-but-had-never-put-into-words." Thank you; I'm definitely going to be returning to this again and again!

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Rick Benger's avatar

sparkling essay!

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Jak Banks's avatar

This is an extremely informative, fantastic read. Thanks

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Little Think's avatar

loved this; very elegant framework for finetuning the intangible magic of gathering

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daniel brottman's avatar

fantastic essay, thank you ananta! ill be revisiting this one for future things i plan

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Zoe's avatar

Very useful, thank you so much Ananta <3

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