Merge pull request #582 from kernel-community/r2d

Trust yourself - Kernel Returns

blogPosts/en/blog/Editorial/kernel-returns.mdx

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+---
+title: "Kernel Returns"
+authors: ["vsinghdothings"]
+keywords: "kernel, block, new, learn, apply, community"
+description: "An open, peer-to-peer, lifelong network of humans building relationships one conversation at a time."
+date: 2023-10-04
+image: "/images/kernel_balance.png"
+recommend:
+  [
+    "blogPosts/en/blog/Editorial/signature-stories",
+    "blogPosts/en/blog/community/free-learn",
+    "blogPosts/en/blog/Editorial/what-is-kernel",
+  ]
+---
+
+# KERNEL Returns
+
+> _Kernel Block 8 begins January 2024. Applications are open [here](https://apply.kernel.community/)._
+
+I recently woke up, as I do often, and clicked into a random part of the Kernel website. [Inventing on Principle](/learn/module-6/inventing-on-principle) was the choice of the day, a brief tucked away in Module 6 of the Kernel book. 
+
+<InfoBlock>
+
+![Module 6](/images/module-6.png)
+
+A guided review of interface designer Brett Victor’s inventive 2012 talk, the brief hyperlinks to many other places in the Kernel book, including [Serenity](/learn/module-6/serenity) (the design rationale for Eth 2.0), and [Finding Lost Paradises](/learn/module-4/the-garden) which explores the garden of forking memes with Aaron Lewis. It also links out to a [Imogene Heap Tiny Desk concert](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QtklTXbKUQ&t=556s), a Doug Englebart talk on [Collective Intelligence & Augmented Knowledge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3PWet8fDk), and to a StackOverflow post on modes in Vim. This is a typical rabbit hole of stories in a Kernel brief, a choose your own adventure experience. 
+
+</InfoBlock>
+
+In the brief, Victor advocates for **“finding and following a principle”**. 
+
+He suggests this as an alternative to the more popular motifs of the early 2010s – “find your passion” or “do something you love”. Victor suggests finding your principle through lived experience – through invention. 
+
+> “Make many things. Make many types of things. Study many things. Experience many things. Use all of these experiences as a way of analyzing yourself by asking, 'Does this resonate with me?', "Does this repel me?', 'Do I not care?' Build up this corpus of experiences you care about and then try to make sense of it, try to figure out why you care.”
+
+Once you find a principle, life will ask you to invent (and reinvent) around its voice. Listen for your principle, even when other voices loudly ask for your attention. Invent ways of being which make that principle more likely, more lived. In a continual process of self-discovery, re-invent your own life story. By extension, the world naturally shifts. 
+
+> _“Even the lowest whisper can be heard over armies... when it's telling the truth.” _
+
+## What is Kernel?
+
+The principle Kernel follows is: _Humans live better when learning and teaching with others, in ongoing dialogue._
+
+Each Kernel block is an instantiation of the principle: a participatory learning environment dedicated to building a better web, together. 
+
+Each Kernel block brings together ~250 unique people around the world who are each _inventing in earnest_.  
+
+Each Kernel Fellow brings with them an “adventure” – a project, a company in the making, a research question, a topic of interest. An adventure almost always resembles a principle: a way of life you are actively inventing for yourself and by extension, others. 
+
+Your adventure guides and colors your Kernel block experience and also extends beyond yourself and Kernel into the world.  
+
+A Kernel block orients one towards: 
+
+<Process>
+
+building/creating your own chosen Kernel "adventure",
+
+in fellowship and dialogue with the peers learning alongside you,
+
+with a Kernel book offering "techno-philosophical" questions for contemplation.
+
+</Process>
+
+Kernel is an experience equal parts online, onchain, and “translocal” (in small local groups, globally). It is primarily about creating beautiful things with others.
+
+Adventures take many forms, and so too, do the forms of dialogue which arise between fellows in response. We've seen many product validation demos of new interfaces, research interviews for a phD thesis, dinner at the restaurant of a new Kernel fellow, and music shared between new friends. The friendships are the real reward of Kernel, and dialogue is the constantly moving centerpiece.
+
+## The Kernel Of Crypto
+
+Kernel explores technology from its roots. Language, stories, memory-making, library science, anthropological accounts of debt, open source/peer to peer culture, inventions of weird money and the frontiers of modern technology are represented in the Kernel book. There’s also quite a bit of poetry and film referenced, but that’s another story. Each block is responsive to the technical and cultural context of the day.
+
+Today’s context is a crypto in search of meaning. Rather than focusing on consuming (“Consumer Crypto”) to find it, Kernel asks to consider **active participation**, through learning and teaching with others, as a means of differentiated experience in crypto interfaces. A Kernel Block shows just one example of what that active participation might look like (Bonfire, Blackbird, and Jokerace are recent inspirations). 
+
+Inventive and ['home-cooked’ technologies which encourage conviviality](https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/) remain central in Kernel. Can we invent simpler interfaces, form factors, and even monies which work with us – not for us – so that we might remain more aware in our interactions online, onchain, and in the world?
+
+After all, as [The Evolution of Trust game by Nicky Case](https://ncase.me/trust/) offers us in [Module 0 of Kernel](https://www.kernel.community/en/learn/module-0/trust): “We are each other’s environment”. And we have the chance right now to make our own environment a little more clear.
+
+## Apply to Kernel
+
+If any of the above resonates with you, we invite you earnestly to create, build, and be with us during Kernel Block 8. 
+
+Applying to Kernel begins a conversation with Kernel Fellows and the Kernel Stewards. We consider it a gift and would be grateful to learn more about you. 
+
+Please apply [here](https://apply.kernel.community/). 

content/en/index.mdx

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 # Kernel
 
-### A custom web3 educational community
+### A peer-learning environment dedicated to building a better web, together
 
-We are building an open, peer-to-peer, lifelong network of awesome humans, one block at a time. Each block accommodates 250 individuals and runs for 8 weeks. It is a unique experience.
+We are building an open, peer-to-peer, lifelong network of awesome humans, one block at a time. Each block accommodates a small group of people and runs for 8 weeks. It is a unique experience.
 
 Together, we are joyfully subverting the status quo.
 
@@ -25,9 +25,13 @@ Together, we are joyfully subverting the status quo.
     Curious?
   </Button>
 
+  <Button to='https://apply.kernel.community' inline>
+    Apply
+  </Button>
+
 </Flex>
 
-Applications for KB8 will open soon.
+KB8 will begin in January 2024.
 
 </Box>
 

content/en/tokens/token-studies/honour.mdx

@@ -31,12 +31,6 @@ _Note: in this case, the [original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/
 
 </Aligner>
 
-_This post is dedicated to Brett Scott, for all he continues to do with [altered states of monetary consciousness](https://brettscott.substack.com/p/the-crypto-credit-alliance)_.
-
-> "A _credit orientation to money_ is a mental model that sees money not as a commodity (either real or fictitious), but rather as an active accounting system powered by IOUs that bind people together into inescapable interdependent meshes [...] One subtle yet crucial nuance to internalise is that a credit orientation to money is a way of thinking about money, rather than a specific prescription or specification for its exact form [...] credit thinking requires you to imagine the world as an elaborate mesh of people keeping accounts of webs of promises, relations and obligations [...] 
-
-> "What if the best of crypto could be fused with the best of credit thinking? What if crypto could shed its rigid monetary theory, and what if mutual credit systems could shed their small-scale backwater feeling? [...] One of the biggest cultural tasks is to bring the wealth of community-focused knowledge possessed by mutual credit practitioners into the crypto sector, whilst finding a positive outlet for the technical prowess of the techies: if done right, we might end up with more dynamic forms of liquid decentralization, with **local systems riding on global architectures**."
-
 ## Money Made Weird
 
 The word “weird” can be traced to “_wyrd_”, meaning destiny. To call someone “weird” is to say they are destined: their presence has that strange and sometimes unsettling sense of something greater. To make something weird is to wire it to reach its destination, knowing well that each thing is destined for the origin from whence it emerged. 
@@ -169,6 +163,14 @@ No. We are always indebted to life<sup>5</sup>, which is not ours, but given to
 
 </Accordion>
 
+---
+
+_This post is dedicated to Brett Scott, for all he continues to do with [altered states of monetary consciousness](https://brettscott.substack.com/p/the-crypto-credit-alliance)_.
+
+> "A _credit orientation to money_ is a mental model that sees money not as a commodity (either real or fictitious), but rather as an active accounting system powered by IOUs that bind people together into inescapable interdependent meshes [...] One subtle yet crucial nuance to internalise is that a credit orientation to money is a way of thinking about money, rather than a specific prescription or specification for its exact form [...] credit thinking requires you to imagine the world as an elaborate mesh of people keeping accounts of webs of promises, relations and obligations [...] 
+
+> "What if the best of crypto could be fused with the best of credit thinking? What if crypto could shed its rigid monetary theory, and what if mutual credit systems could shed their small-scale backwater feeling? [...] One of the biggest cultural tasks is to bring the wealth of community-focused knowledge possessed by mutual credit practitioners into the crypto sector, whilst finding a positive outlet for the technical prowess of the techies: if done right, we might end up with more dynamic forms of liquid decentralization, with **local systems riding on global architectures**."
+
 ### Footnotes
 
 1. “He made the top and bottom change places, intentionally mixed the hierarchical levels in order to discover the core of the object’s concrete reality, to free it from its shell and to show its material bodily aspect - the real being outside all hierarchical norms and values” (Mikhail Bakhtin, _Rabelais and His World_, 403).

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