Tyler Alterman
@TylerAlterman
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Breathe in the evening sun. Breathe out the doing of taxes. Venture culturalist. Epistemic status: Oboe. University: @fractal_nyc Sci-fi/fantasy: @psychofauna
New York
Joined December 2008
psychofauna (n.). 1. A term coined by @visakanv to highlight the organism-like behavior of many ideas, stories, ideologies, cultures, archetypes, and other entities that take up residence in the ecosystems of our minds. 2. A serial fiction published at and
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I wrote the entire outline for a book on how to build a microsociety today.
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Apply here to build your own fractal (aka "neighborhood campus"):
fractalcampus.com
Live near 100 friendly, ambitious, nerds Build a local university with your best friends Work on your most ambitious projects Raise your family in community
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2019: dreamed about a neighborhood campus, integrating work, hobbies, family & living near friends. 2023: built one with my ppl!. 2025: helped others launch campuses across the world, from Geneva to Porto. Now: Wanna build your own? Apply to our fall cohort below.
Here is a pretty wild story of You Can Just Do Things. In 2019, I dreamed about my ideal life. It included:.1. A walkable neighborhood – raising kids near ppl I love.2. A campus – working, learning, and researching alongside ambitious peers. 6 years later. 🧵.
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RT @archaeologyart: Opalescent glass Art Deco sculpture by French artist Lucille Sevin, created between the 1920s and 1930s. .
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This is all I need to finish my novel (I tell myself).
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What adult (besides partner/family) has had/has the most positive influence on your life? (And how?). (I want to learn about how to become an even more positive influence ).
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New Yorkers: anyone have a room free in August for 1-2 weeks for my literal rockstar friend?
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Here is how to run a forcing party to get you and your friends to do all the stuff you’ve been avoiding:. 7-7:15: arrive, hang out. 7:15: optional drinking of shots for liquid courage (cheers), circle where each person talks about what they need to be forced to do. Rest of.
In the middle of a "forcing party" where friends and I are forcing one another to do the things that we've been avoiding. So far:.• A passport has been filed for.• An inbox has been zero'd.• A personal website has been created.&more. I recommend this format!.
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Also I finally journaled my way to the root of my existential malaise, and sat with it, and now it has begun to lift. It's crazy how quickly moods can lift once you just stop avoiding them.
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Forcing Party 2 was a success!. The following things were forced out of us:.• A resume.• A syllabus for an EDM course.• A new meditation group.& more. We will now maybe host every Sunday night bc this feels amazing
In the middle of a "forcing party" where friends and I are forcing one another to do the things that we've been avoiding. So far:.• A passport has been filed for.• An inbox has been zero'd.• A personal website has been created.&more. I recommend this format!.
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RT @meansinfinity: hot take . highly skilled monogamy and highly skilled nonmonogamy converge on the same thing: . relationship rooted in f….
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For a long time I’ve felt aversion to a certain set of experiences that my peers want to call “enlightenment”. Part of it is almost certainly just ego being afraid of dissolution. But there’s ANOTHER part that I don’t see talked about, which is that this thing my friends call.
You also get a theory of "the shadow" from this. I.e. one's shadow is precisely that which the self-image fails to include. By necessity, any dimensionality reduction leads to a shadow: that which the the compression throws out. People enamored with a low-dimensional self-image.
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I’m gonna try this belief on bc I still be hiding.
you can literally walk around in effortless max aura mode 100% of the time. i consider it a public service. it makes most people perk up noticeably. they instantly seem happier, more at ease, etc.
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This exchange doesn’t exactly make sense but I feel like it makes the sort of “hypersense” that @__drewface mentioned to help me appreciate anime.
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I’ll retweet this with the hope that even just one person sees this tweet, goes “oh crap that’s me,” and then does not succumb.
AI-induced psychosis, in varying degrees, is set to take out an entire layer of individuals who are objectively of above-average intelligence. The ones who succumb will likely surprise many - because it is not cognitive or spiritual discernment alone, but the integration of both.
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