The Portal Community

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We Value

  • Truth
  • Meaning
  • Fitness
  • Grace
  • Head
  • Heart
  • Loins

Core Traits of Our Community

We aspire to be

  • self-aware
  • metacognitive
  • meta-honest
  • earnest
  • of good humor
  • tolerant
  • kind & compassionate toward others
  • flexible of mind
  • generous of spirit
  • tasteful
  • curious
  • radically creative
  • project-driven
  • ambitious
  • imposters
  • responsibly heretical
  • long heroism, short martyrdom
  • long good, short nice


Superpositions/Trade-offs/Tensions/Dialectics

  • leading | following
  • inclusion | exclusion
  • diversity | commonality/interoperability
  • centralization | decentralization
  • depth | breadth
  • transparency | opacity
  • shunning | redemption
  • institutions | disintermediation
  • egalitarianism | recognition of differential contribution
  • listening | ignoring
  • senior leadership and wisdom | removal of those who stopped renewing
  • authoritative sources | heterodoxy
  • welcoming strangers | prioritizing family and old friends
  • ridicule | civility and comity
  • modernity | tradition

We Value

Independent Thinking

We're interested in finding people who are negative on these scales. How easily would you fall for these traps?