editing now at https://newman5.github.io/start/

profile-nsl-2023-09-13 1.png Newman S Lanier
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Infos
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Born in the Southeast United States
Living in New York City
Time zone is New York, UTC -5 (winter time)

Communities
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Cardano's Project Catalyst
SingularityNET's Deep Funding
Open Decentralized Innovation Network (ODIN) - Joe Edelman's Space Trains and Social Design
Holistic Systems Cooperative (HSC)
Gimbalabs and PlutusPBL.io
Sociocracy3.0

Inactive
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Cardano RealFi Alliance (CRFC)
Big Questions Institute (BQI)
U-Lab 1x
CS50x
Cardano 4 Climate

Areas of Interest
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Personal and Organizational Knowledge management
Healing arts - Herbalism and Chi Gong
EdTech
Building on Web3 and the Open web
Environmental Consciousness Paradigm Shift

in Catalyst Fund11
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Games - collaborative, Governance / Resource management / simple web3, game jams
DID / SSI / VC - Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials
DAOs - Habitual community organizing patterns
Education - experiential, context setting, but also fundamental / rudimentary learning
Messaging
zero knowledge - whole scientific field adjacent to Blockchain
Web development - web3 and building on Cardano / Blockchain
Music - rights and licensing and disrupting the music industry...again. streaming isn't the answer completely

Areas of Focus
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Challenge Team member for Cardano's Project Catalyst 'DAOs love Cardano"
Gimbalabs Community Domain stewardship (Spring 2024)
ODIN Education Domain stewardship (Spring 2024)
Learning Sociocracy 3.0 (Spring 2024)
Learner for CS50x - Introduction to Computer Science (Fall 2023)
Learner for u-lab: Leading From the Emerging Future (Fall 2023)
Learner for Game changer intensive course from Pachamama Alliance (Fall 2022)
Learner for Future course from DAO Leadership (Fall 2022)

Words I learned
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S3 vocabulary and my Anki flashcard sets

Movies I last watched
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Dumb Money (with Paul Dano and Pete Davidson)
Succession on HBO - power binged during housesitting gig

Person that inspires
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Roberto and James from Gimbalabs
Dan Deacon and Sam Herring - Musicians

Books I'm reading
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Audible link
Blueprint: The evolutionary origins of a good society by Christakis
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Imaginable: How to create a hopeful future