The Portal Community
We Prioritize
- Head, Heart, Loins
- Regulated Expression of the above
Core Traits of The Portal 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
- courageous
- imposters
- responsibly heretical
- long heroism, short martyrdom
- long good, short nice
Harmonizing Tensions
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
- Good faith arguments
- Avoiding logical fallacies
- Avoiding ad hominem attacks
- Awareness of cognitive bias
- Prioritizing first principles thinking
- When in doubt, use the Socratic Method
Independent Thinking
We're interested in finding people who are negative on these scales. How easily would you fall for these traps?