Deep Takes on Hot Takes - March 19 – 23 📝

Can we apply Relatefulness when talking about the hottest, most controversial topics of today? 

Can we transform them into intimate and meaningful conversations that contribute to everyone on the planet’s well-being? 

I think so. 

And now I’m inviting you to do so, in an online writing conference called “Deep Takes on Hot Takes” on UpTrust, March 19 – 23, that we expect a few thousand people to attend. You read my thoughts every week, now I’d like to read yours—I’m inviting you to submit a “Deep take on a hot take” memo. 

(What’s a memo? You can think of it as a half-baked draft that the collective will help you bake. And I invite you to be a part of that collective, commenting, sharing, and bringing the spirit of Relatefulness into the conference. The theme was Inspired in large part by Dara asking the question, “What kind of event would you guys reading Three Things Thursday love to participate in on UpTrust?”)

Why us? I love relating for the sake of itself. I also love being able to talk about the details that matter in our modern world—AI, geopolitics, climate change, economics, covid. Surely these are as much a part of presence as the feelings in your belly? Often these are our biggest projection screens—can we see how they’re integral to our spiritual practice? Can we relate with our relating to them, as we do with each other?

These are the conversations where things often go most awry: If we keep going mildly unconscious, or demanding to be treated the way we prefer when it comes to tackling the biggest issues of our day, we may accidentally excuse ourselves from conversation. But what if instead we could infuse these conversations with truth and love? What if both authenticity and compassion composed the process and the destination?

That’s what Deep Takes on Hot Takes is all about. The crazy thing is you probably already have a deep take on a hot take. It may take you less than two minutes to type up. Perhaps you simply haven’t been invited…

I know I get scared imagining putting it out there, online. Especially since we’re invited to publish our unfinished, unrefined thoughts! You’re welcome to publish under a pseudonym. And I know this stuff can be hard to put into language. Consider that like in a Flow, whatever you have is enough, not necessarily by itself, but when brought into connection with the greater whole. Perhaps all you have is a set of questions that kick off the kind of conversations you love to have.

Let’s join together and contribute to civilizational well-being through better collective sense-making. And let’s start by saying “yes, and… / no, but…” to where we’re at.

With love, Jordan