For some reason I’m awfully bad at bringing people together. There’s something about the task that I can’t seem to grasp, no matter how much I try and fail. Is there anyone on LW who started out with no talent for this, but managed to improve through hard work?
Announce it on here, with a time (a week or so in advance) and a location (somewhere where a group can gather and still hear one another; e.g. a quieter-end pizza place),
Show up yourself, with a sign that says “less wrong meet-up”.
Any chance you might try? There seem to be a number of cool LW-ers from Moscow.
Yes. I tried and failed to run a student social/special interest group for a while, interspersed with low- to medium-quality leadership conferences on occasion. After a year (of the school variety, so nine months) of running weekly meetings and hosting lecture events I got to be pretty decent.
Have you considered a more proactive solution to your problem (i.e. introducing people from your geographical area to LW)?
Or, still proactive but less dependent on a worthwhile social network, trying to start a meetup in your geographical area?
For some reason I’m awfully bad at bringing people together. There’s something about the task that I can’t seem to grasp, no matter how much I try and fail. Is there anyone on LW who started out with no talent for this, but managed to improve through hard work?
To call a LW meet-up, all you need to do is:
Announce it on here, with a time (a week or so in advance) and a location (somewhere where a group can gather and still hear one another; e.g. a quieter-end pizza place),
Show up yourself, with a sign that says “less wrong meet-up”.
Any chance you might try? There seem to be a number of cool LW-ers from Moscow.
I’d add step 0: have Singulairty Institute members come for a long visit near you, thus serving as the impetus of the meetup :-)
Yes. I tried and failed to run a student social/special interest group for a while, interspersed with low- to medium-quality leadership conferences on occasion. After a year (of the school variety, so nine months) of running weekly meetings and hosting lecture events I got to be pretty decent.