In Correspondence #56

Dear friends,

Welcome to my first In Correspondence as a dad, following the birth of Runa Gottlieb Reid on 2nd March 🎉 👶 I’m writing from my home in Stockholm, where we’ve just come to the end of cherry blossom season.

If you’re Stockholm-based, I hope you’ll join Runa, Laura and me for Futurecraft at Lakefront, a day retreat at Emerge Lakefront on 30th May.

• We’ve been exploring Stockholm as a family. Check out my favourite spots on a map

• We attended the delightful phone-free Analog Oasis at Blivande and an outdoor ecstatic dance at the lovely Rosenhill

• I’m continuing my Swedish learning journey with a B2+ evening course at Folkuniversitetet

• Hilma Church-Turing and I have now published 7 draft chapters of the Technological Metamodernism book. The past 3 have been on Plurality, Cosmo-localism and Ontoshift

• I spoke about Technological Metamodernism to the Life Itself Research community and hosted the first Technological Metamodernism meetup at Berghs

• Watch this space for upcoming collabs with Foresight Institute

Dandelion has a number of invites to Circles, a new, decentralised form of money where everyone gets 1 CRC per hour, currently worth about $100/year. Click the green button on this page to send a few CRC to Dandelion – if you don’t yet have a Circles account, you’ll be guided through the setup process.

Dandelion is closing on 200,000 tickets sold via the platform, and we have new pages on Features and Dandelion vs Luma.

I read and enjoyed Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading, Retrotopia and Saltcrop. I’m now reading the fantastical The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty.

Since last time, I’ve shared 65 items to my knowledgegraph.

I’ve been appreciating the Planetary Dharma Substack; Octopusyarn has put out a number of bangers; after a tip from Peter Limberger, I enjoyed watching The New Years; and Jake Orthwein did an incredible job with Unravelling the Dream.

Other pieces I liked:

• On or Against ‘Agency’ by Philip Moreira Tomei

• Cultivating Cultures of Homecoming by Samantha Sweetwater

• Jasmine Sun on the permanent underclass

• Futurecraft at Lakefront, Stockholm, 30th May

• The Swedish adventure (second half of June): Meeting my brother and his family at Lake Vättern, celebrating Laura’s birthday at Söderköpings Brunn, my first co-created gathering at Skeppsudden

• The UK adventure (second half of July): Staying with my sibling and their partner in Brighton, heading to Buddhafield festival, staying two weeks at Staverton Mill in Devon, spending a few days in London with my brother’s family

I’ve started posting on Substack Notes more. Here’s a gallery of some of the images I’ve posted there recently, created via Substack’s hidden/cookie auth API

Until next time, mettā,
Stephen