San Francisco Meetup: Deep Questions

post by Michael Cohn (michael-cohn) · 2018-06-08T02:09:30.046Z · ? · GW · 0 comments

Note temporary contact info change below -- our regular organizers are away being awesome!

WHEN: 11 June 2018, 6:15 PM

WHERE: 855 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103

For entry: Go to the glass doors directly across the street from the REI (about 1/2 block NE from the location Google Maps shows for this address). Call or text Michael at 734-846-1308 and he'll come let you in. 

Deep Questions: We break into pairs. The MC reads an interesting, open-ended question. You and your partner spend 12 minutes listening to and discussing each other's answers. Afterwards, you pair up with someone new and answer a new question.

Example questions: 

• What in life gets you really excited?
• What do you hope they say in your obituary?
• What's something that's worth about as much to you as one of your pinky fingers?

Note: The questions are (arguably) deep, but your answers don't need to be. There's no expectation that participants will share any more than they're comfortable with.

We started doing Deep Questions after members expressed interest in trying out more structured activities that would help folks, especially new attendees, get to know each other. Please let us know what you think!

Format: We meet and start hanging out at 6:15. There's often a group food order. The official meetup topic starts at 6:45-7:00 and runs until ~9:00. 

About these meetups: The mission of the SF LessWrong meetup is to provide a fun, low-key social space with some structured interaction, where new and non-new community members can mingle and have interesting conversations. Everyone is welcome.

We explicitly encourage people to split off from the main conversation or diverge from the topic if that would be more fun for them (moving side conversations into a separate part of the space if appropriate). Meetup topics are here as a tool to facilitate fun interaction, and we certainly don’t want them to inhibit it.

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