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Designer, neuroscientist (consciousness PhD), poker pro, founder @projectFOK. Building a free open-source participatory governance system @OHMcollective 🌱
Brisbane, Australia
Joined February 2015
So proud of this 🌱. We just used the #WisdomSystem to map @OHMcollective’s values — and embedded them into our Covenant, proving the concept for dynamic, participatory DAO governance 🔥. Next cycle starts Wednesday. Full wrap + what’s next in the blog 👇.
We just wrapped the first month-long cycle in our year of governance experiments 🎉. 🌱 Community-nominated values.⚖️ Peer-reviewed rankings.🫶 A Top 10 now embedded in OHM’s governance doc. Read what we learned + join the next round (starts this Wed!) .
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So excited to launch our next experiment in gifting, gratitude and collective governance!. 🤲 Offer what you love to give.✅ Vote for what you value most.✨ Co-create OHM Gathering 2025. Crowd-sourced valuations by the #WisdomSystem 🙏. Let the Gifting & Gratitude Games begin! 🌱.
🎉 OHM Gathering 2025 is on!.🗓️ Nov 28–30 | Natural Bridge QLD. This isn't just any event—it's our first full test of the #WisdomSystem, and the moment we bring a gratitude-powered gift economy to life🌱. No tickets. No spectators. Just gifts.🤲. 👉 Blog:
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Huge milestone for @OHMcollective -- just launched alpha testing for the Wisdom app🌱. Soon will be available for any community to value what they care most about. Fair, open, and inclusive to the whole community. Proud of the whole OHM crew 💛. Full update here:.
We’ve launched alpha testing for the Wisdom app!🌱.Our community tool for valuing what matters. Also in this blog:.🌳 Roles & planning for OHM Gathering 2025.🤖 Ohmnie — our vision for value-aligned AI.🔥 First live experiment at @modifyre . Read here 👉
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RT @OHMcollective: We’ve launched alpha testing for the Wisdom app!🌱.Our community tool for valuing what matters. Also in this blog:.🌳 Rol….
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Excited to be hosting our second OHM Council tomorrow: Root – Participatory Democracy 🌱. We’re moving from shared values to shared governance — with a special guest talk from Jonathan Sriranganathan, former Councillor and expert in Participatory Democracy, and a new experiment.
🌱 Tomorrow: OHM Root Council — Participatory Democracy. Turning shared values into shared governance. 🗣 Jonathan Sri, participatory democracy expert.📊 Results of our value-mapping experiment.🗳 Electing OHM's incoming board. 🗓️ 8pm AEST / 10pm UTC.🔗
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RT @CoopSmout: Huge thanks to the 12 participants who nominated values for our community to consider — such beautiful contributions coming….
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RT @projectFOK: Come explore a radically inclusive, open peer-review system designed for academia — and generalised to help ANY community s….
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Huge thanks to the 12 participants who nominated values for our community to consider — such beautiful contributions coming through. 🥰. Next step: rating those values using our participatory system and building our collective Value Map for 2025. ⚖️. Join us this Monday to help.
🌱 This Monday 12 May: Seed Council continues!. We’ll review the list of nominated values and start rating them using the #WisdomSystem. 🗓️ Mon 12 May · 8pm AEST / 10am UTC.🔗 Come share what you care about — and help grow OHM's 2025 Value Map. 💜.
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Just spent a month at @at_altspace, where this will be hosted. Great community, beautiful space. Highly recommend 🙌.
🌟 Announcing the AI Launchpad 2025 🇮🇳. A 9-week, equity-free, offline residency program to build cutting-edge AI agents, apps, and tools in the Himalayas with a highly motivated cohort. 🗓️ 22nd Jun-31st Aug 2025.📍 @at_altspace, Dharamshala .🎟️ 100% free | up to 30 exceptional
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Regrowing OHM from the ground up, through our very own #WisdomSystem 🔥🌱❤️.
🌱 Seed Council begins Monday!. We’re launching a participatory experiment to define the values that will guide OHM in the year ahead. Open to anyone who joined OHM Council #1 or watches the recording. 🌍💜. 🗓️ Mon 5 May · 10am UTC.🔗 #OpenScience #DeSci
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🌱 Huge thanks to everyone who helped launch our new OHM Council Series! 🙏. It was great to share space with such a diverse group, across different backgrounds and locations. I’m beyond excited for this next phase — launching a hands-on experiment to collectively define OHM’s.
37 OHM-azing humans kicked off our new Council Series this week!. We met, shared, and outlined plans for the year. Missed it? Here's the recording:.📷 Next up: a hands-on experiment to choose our collective values for OHM (Monday). Link in shownotes 👇.
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Worst customer service ever. @IndiGo6E strategy seems to be to palm complaints off to another department who never reply, hoping you will go away. This is my regular reminder that I’m not going away, @IndiGo6E. Posting here because this is LITERALLY the only channel that.
Anyone know how to escalate an issue with Indian airline provider?. 1. @IndiGo6E changed my flight time to a clash with connecting flight. 2. Clicked link in email “requesting a full refund”, but website bugs out every time I try to cancel and sends an email confirming new
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A new cycle begins. 🌱. Today at 10am UTC, the @OHMcollective will gather online to bring in the new moon — to reconnect, reflect, and set intentions for the year ahead. 🌑. Each petal in this flower represents one month in our collective Roadmap, beginning with the introduction
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Planting seeds for a new way to value what matters. Join us this Monday. 🌱 . Details👇.
What if we could coordinate better — across science, culture, and commons? 🌍. 🌱 OHM Council #1: Seed.🗓️ Mon April 28 · 10am UTC.👉 An open invitation to a year-long experiment in participatory valuation and governance. 🙌
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This is huge—and I think a world first: fully autonomous scientific discovery by AI in partnership with human participants. A complex, multi-agent system proposed hypotheses, preregistered methods, recruited online participants, analyzed the data, created figures, and wrote it.
We’re Explore Science, stepping out of stealth with something we think is pretty cool: Embodied AI Scientists running human experiments and publishing their own paper. We're excited to share our work - check it out! .#AI #Science
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🌱 Lessons from ZuGrama: A 6-Week Experiment in Decentralized Co-Creation. Earlier this year, I spent six weeks in Kerala, India with 100+ researchers, founders, and builders at ZuGrama — a participatory popup village inspired by the values of Web3: decentralisation, autonomy,
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