The Portal Group Onboarding: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 02:29, 21 October 2022

How do I access the other Discord channels?[edit]

New members are limited to posting in the #lobby-and-introductions channel. If you demonstrate an interest in making or contributing, or show something you've previously made, you may receive access to the rest of the server.

What it looks like to not have a role.

If you don't have much to show, consider contributing to the wiki. We aim to aggregate agentic people, who take lead with their work and show instead of tell with minimal outside direction, and can also collaborate with others.

How can I contribute?[edit]

The Portal Group is not here to tell you what to do, it is here to remove obstacles and make your work easier. Veteran members of the community, who have contributed to a project or accomplished an ambitious task, are to be sought out for advice. Those who do work are quickly integrated.

The only "hard" requirement for any project is that it should be in line with the goals of the Portal, as best outlined in Episode 2 and Episode 18 or in the telos above.

There is much freedom in selecting your approach these goals, but the ones that tend to last are overall simple. An idea's simplicity does not imply it is unintelligent or incapable, but rather it has a large impact relative to its underlying assumptions and complexity in execution.

How shouldn't I contribute?[edit]

Conversation without aim distracts from productivity, so we keep open conversation limited to specific areas on the server. We aim to exclude disruptive behavior, that which distracts or is disrespectful to members.

Additionally, if your ideas cannot be given a strong form or body, then they cannot act on the world. We wish to focus on ideas that provide high leverage relative to the work put in and avoid areas that don't. Areas that are known not to pay off include arbitrary crypto schemes or the purchase of an island.

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+==== How do I access the other Discord channels? ====
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+New members are limited to posting in the ''#lobby-and-introductions'' channel. If you demonstrate an interest in making or contributing, or show something you've previously made, you may receive access to the rest of the server.
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+[[File:NoPermsToTalk.png|thumb|center|What it looks like to not have a role.]]
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+If you don't have much to show, consider [[Portal Wiki|contributing to the wiki]]. We aim to aggregate [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agentic_leadership agentic people], who take lead with their work and show instead of tell with minimal outside direction, and can also collaborate with others.
-<!-- What is Eric's attitude towards (some arbitrary) project? (Tie in some relevant podcast quotes, like ep2 and ep18?)
-What's the telos/persistent goal?
+==== How can I contribute? ====
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+The Portal Group is not here to tell you what to do, it is here to remove obstacles and make your work easier. Veteran members of the community, who have contributed to a project or accomplished an ambitious task, are to be sought out for advice. Those who do work are quickly integrated.
-=== How do I access the other channels? ===
-<!-- Newb role explanation. Be agentic. The quickest way to be let into the server is to show us some work that you've done. Something you've made. Once we have evidence that you can get stuff done, we're pretty inviting. -->
-=== How can I contribute? ===
+The only "hard" requirement for any project is that it should be in line with the goals of the Portal, as best outlined in [[2: What is The Portal#What The Portal is About|Episode 2]] and [[18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal/Chapter 2020|Episode 18]] or in the [[The Portal Projects Group#Telos|telos]] above.
-<!-- "We're not here to tell you what to do"  Be agentic. You control your destiny. This all depends on what you want to do, what you are good at, and what you want to learn about. Simplicity: Maximize impact minimize complexity, Dawkins' power of an idea, simplicity does not mean unintelligent.
-"We're here to remove obstacles for you" - elders.
-And, if people are actually non-douche-ish, then we'll integrate you quickly into our whole deal here
-It's not hard, if you're a capable person who doesn't require baby-sitting
-based on your interactions in the lobby, it would be best to frame it as "if you wanna do cool shit, start doing it. if you have cool shit to show and it's relevant to our goals, bother us and we'll try to give you rocket boosters to travel the cool shit galaxy" -->
-=== How shouldn't I contribute? ===
+There is much freedom in selecting your approach these goals, but the ones that tend to last are overall simple. An idea's simplicity does not imply it is unintelligent or incapable, but rather it has a large impact relative to its underlying assumptions and complexity in execution.
-<!-- Results better than aimless conversation. If you want to have conversations about the [[The Portal Podcast|Podcast]], see [[The Portal Discords]]. Bad behavior should be self-evident: it's contrary to the goals. Be respectful, be cool, exclude disruptive behavior, make beauty.
-* Discussions
+==== How shouldn't I contribute? ====
-* Programming
+Conversation without aim distracts from productivity, so we keep open conversation limited to specific areas on the server. We aim to exclude disruptive behavior, that which distracts or is disrespectful to members.
-* Video
-* Art
-* Mathematics
-* Physics
-* Biology
-Join the Discord servers and jump into one of the chats, catch up on some of the conversations and ask questions.  See if your skillset and time are gonna help contribute to the project. If you still want to join then simply provide proof of past work in the lobby-and-introductions (Discord ID : 701792384773521428) and wait for one of the rollers to accept your request.
+Additionally, if your ideas cannot be given a strong form or body, then they cannot act on the world. We wish to focus on ideas that provide high leverage relative to the work put in and avoid areas that don't. Areas that are known not to pay off include arbitrary crypto schemes or the purchase of an island.
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-=== What is the end goal? ===
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-<!-- Return to the future. I think what we need to do is to start dreaming much more aggressively, dream much bigger, and start dreaming in public with each other, harmoniously if we can, or have our dreams fight each other, but at least start unlocking the potential of human imagination and not immediately grounding every new idea in some sort of race to see whether we can invalidate it, give it enough of a room to grow.
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-What we're going to do in this program is effectively to declare war. War on stasis. War on group think. War on everything that has enervated our society, and we're going to do it because we have the ability now to compete with the networks that previously grew up to distribute whatever it was that was portrayed as sense-making.
-What we need to do is to return to our own future. -->
-<!-- ==== Discord Roles ====
-Roles are basically labels that describe the different skills, and permissions that people may have.
-==== What are the roles? ====
-* Newb - Every new user gets this role. It will be removed once you start contributing to the community.
-* Roller - It's a secret.
-* High Roller - Even better than a Roller.
-* Announcements - If you'd like to be notified when we make Announcements or have Office Hours, this is a good role to give yourself. (This is one of the few roles that users can add and remove themselves.)
-* Acting Spammy - Doh! You don't want this.
-==== Who can grant roles? ====
-Folks in the community who have been around for a while
-==== What is my role? ====
-As you interact with the community, you'll be given roles that fit with your interests.
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-==== What is the process for pitching a new project?  ====
-All you have to do is start up a conversation and let us know that you have an idea. Depending on what you've got, we'll start asking you questions and we'll take it from there. -->
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