Kernel
Care-full
Learning
July 14, 2022
“The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.”
Don’t Build Community
Healthy communities are a great success metric, not a good design goal.�
When you try to “connect” people, you create narcissistic, navel-gazing face books.
We connect naturally. What intentional environments craft is meaning and purpose.
Learn Together
Kernel is simple: we learn together.
Already, this explicit purpose acts as a filter and constraint.
Which raises our guiding question:
Do you want your brand identity to “scale”, or would you like to see the patterns by which you operate adopted by others in ways suited to their own contexts?
Don’t impose yourself.
Help us help each other.
The aim is not to build better tools for governing; it is to build tools that help people help each other. As soon as I set out to help someone, the direction of that action always implies a patronizing power dynamic: ��"I have, you lack." ��However, when we help each other - when we can admit honestly that we both need help, always - then the environment is shifted towards reciprocity.
Horizontal Conversations
We en-courage honest, intimate dialogue as our core method of teaching and learning.
We cultivate relationships with care.
We listen as a means of moving everyone closer to truth.
We play increasingly principled infinite games.
On Principle
Do no harm
Play, infinitely
Setting the Scene
After two years, and six blocks,
we’re building our own infrastructure.
At its core, this involves:
Patterned Playfulness
Fellows
Alumni
Guides
Mentors
Guild Leaders
Stewards
Families of Focus
Thank You.
“One obvious role for a radical intellectual is to do precisely that: to look at those who are creating viable alternatives, try to figure out what might be the larger implications of what they are (already) doing, and then offer those ideas back, not as prescriptions, but as contributions, possibilities — as gifts [...] Such a project would have to have two aspects: one ethnographic, one utopian, suspended in a constant dialogue.”