Merge pull request #659 from kernel-community/r2d

With a little help from my friends

content/en/conversation/hospitality/deep-response.mdx

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 >  
 > Our second mistake was that we thought of freedom as a goal, rather than as a launching pad from which to reach our goals.  
 >  
-> Without purposes, freedom hardy matters.  
+> Without purposes, freedom hardly matters.  
 >  
 > Our third mistake was that we though freedom would make us free.  
 > That, however, is license, - not freedom at all.  
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ In our unsustainable societies, such a pursuit may waste most of a lifetime; whi
 
 If not for dialogue with the _Kanienke'ha'ka_, the beauty may not have emerged in the bars of the stanza above. These ongoing dialogues have exposed us to the precedent of indigenous nations growing out of war and into peace, at different times and geographies; evolving into peaceful confederation and further expansion uninterrupted by war for millennia; all of which is critical for analysis from a matrilineal lens. Such a lens is not all that different from the “political imaginations” of Native nations mentioned by Graeber and Wengrow.  
 
-This poem, and our dialogues, also highlight the flaws in the ubiquitous, and seeminly inevitable, 'historical lens', which works its way into truisms we take at face value like: All human civilizations have had wars. Maybe this is true on the surface, _maybe_, but it omits a whole lot of nuance too. For example, isn’t there a significant distinction between short lived societies of total war and societies that experience war once or twice across many thousands of peacefully confederated cycles? It seems a significant enough distinction, so we can do away with vague (yet collectively accepted) anecdotal evidence to justify ignoring what could be transformative indigenous critique and dialogue.   
+This poem, and our dialogues, also highlight the flaws in the ubiquitous, and seemingly inevitable, 'historical lens', which works its way into truisms we take at face value like: All human civilizations have had wars. Maybe this is true on the surface, _maybe_, but it omits a whole lot of nuance too. For example, isn’t there a significant distinction between short lived societies of total war and societies that experience war once or twice across many thousands of peacefully confederated cycles? It seems a significant enough distinction, so we can do away with vague (yet collectively accepted) anecdotal evidence to justify ignoring what could be transformative indigenous critique and dialogue.   
 
 Appreciating the context of the author and time is very relevant too. Imhotep, an East African polymath and architect of the Step Pyramid, was commemorated for efforts in craftsmanship among various scientific and medicinal disciplines. Greeks like Hippocrates called themselves students of Imhotep 200 years after his death. Apparently, beautiful poetry was in his toolkit as well. His “philosophy of life” based poetry was passed down through generations in East African cultures. Here, though, we would like us to focus on the last bar, with the aforementioned pattern in mind.
 
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ We can do this by avoiding the stagnation of our imaginations. Don’t get stuck
 
 The capacity for innovative work will follow. This was the true foundation of Imhotep’s East African culture and all of our humane cultures.
 
-Then we can concern ourselves with matrilineal dialogue, so that we can enact the freedoms needed in our respective circumstances to get our needs met. What kind of needs? The kind that are shackled to incentives of identity, purpose, direction and the opportunity for constant pursuit of ambitious innovation across disciplines. The latter ensures evolution: experimentation and play are built-in and automatic in the the meta design of matrilineal social organization. 
+Then we can concern ourselves with matrilineal dialogue, so that we can enact the freedoms needed in our respective circumstances to get our needs met. What kind of needs? The kind that are shackled to incentives of identity, purpose, direction and the opportunity for constant pursuit of ambitious innovation across disciplines. The latter ensures evolution: experimentation and play are built-in and automatic in the meta design of matrilineal social organization. 
 
 This also hints at the much-needed web3 bridgework to conventional institutional thought. Through clarity of direction and truthful dialogue in diverse collectives, we can shift web3 away from only monetary incentives and ensure these fall into the background as the original goal of human civilization comes back into the foreground. Regenerative commons will always sound like regenerative markets to be commodified to some folks; so if we ensure the structures we work and live in are on our respective matrilineal terms - while leveraging the momentum of language in so called Green Industry, SDGs, diversity efforts etc.  - we can realise the transformative potential out of this web3 space. 
 
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 The Longhouse often mentions Corn being an important key for establishing peace. Finally, one day in council, a clarification was made as to exactly why this is the case. **The answer was its connection to the commons**. 
 
-> “Take some white corn, remove the kernels and throw them onto a stove top. Take in the smell as the corn cooks and the smoke rises. Once it cooks, put it in a bowl and begin to mash it together, add your berries, nuts or whatever you’d like. All the while taking in the nice smell of the corn. Pick this mush up with your fingers, savior the taste and smell. Then realize this was your first time having corn in this kind of way.” 
+> “Take some white corn, remove the kernels and throw them onto a stove top. Take in the smell as the corn cooks and the smoke rises. Once it cooks, put it in a bowl and begin to mash it together, add your berries, nuts or whatever you’d like. All the while taking in the nice smell of the corn. Pick this mush up with your fingers, savor the taste and smell. Then realize this was your first time having corn in this kind of way.” 
 
 In the moment listening to this response we were no longer hearing words and sentences articulating any particular concept, but we were guided to feel our way to our own articulation of our own concepts. Such a story is a powerful means of minimizing overly prescriptive teaching or learning. Feeling being the best teacher any of us ever had, communicating to us without words but somehow getting everything possible across in an instant. What was felt myself was the epitome of transformative potential. Just imagining, then feeling the impact of the smell and taste of that corn made it clear. What was felt was certainty, comfort in autonomous access to abundance.
 
@@ -132,4 +132,4 @@ This is deeper than mere council logistics though. “The men cannot make the fi
 
 Here in the details of mechanisms for women’s freedom we see what can happen if just this one protocol of walking across the council floor is reversed. Beyond gender in the human strain of life, what happens to our matrilineal heritage in all strains of life when balance has to come from where there is less? Or maybe the better questions: What end goals are worthy of our constant pursuit, while also being shackled to our matrilineal identities and heritage? Isn’t this what gives us our purpose and direction for long term sustainability? 
 
-Hopefully, these questions can help avoid stagnated imaginations in and of potential web3 freedoms and innovations. 
+Hopefully, these questions can help avoid stagnated imaginations in and of potential web3 freedoms and innovations. 

content/en/guiding/guides/mentors.mdx

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 featuredImage: images/shares/giving.png
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+
 # Maintaining Mentors
 
 Mentor is the name of Telemachus' adviser is _The Odyssey_. Its etumology points at one who is a "wise adviser or intimate friend, an also a sage counselor". This being Kernel, we're most excited about the notion of **intimate friendship**.
 
 Mentors, first and foremost, are our friends. While you may not have been through an entire Kernel block yourself, you have inspired some of the thoughts in the syllabus, or helped the stewards along their own learning paths, or brought people into the community who need to be here in order for necessary conversations to unfold.
 
-You are an inspiration to us and, being friends, we feel the need to share that inspiration with those people just beginning their Kernel experience. In particular, your specific expertise and experience within the industry means that we feel you can provide the kinds of sage and wise advice we would not otherwise be able to find.
+You are an inspiration to us and we feel the need to share that inspiration with those people just beginning their Kernel experience. In particular, your specific expertise and experience within the industry means that we feel you can provide the kinds of sage and wise advice we would not otherwise be able to find.
+
+Before reading any further, please know that we are truly grateful for the time and insights you offer to Kernel.
+
+
+<iframe class="airtable-embed" src="https://airtable.com/embed/apptqJRyRxZ0QDi3h/pagu3wAhXQ9zGca4h/form" frameborder="0" onmousewheel="" width="100%" height="533" style="background: transparent; border: 1px solid #ccc;"></iframe>
 
-Before reading any further, please know that we are truly grateful for the time and insights you continually offer to Kernel.
 
 ## Making The Office Ours Again
 
-Mentors have one, primary role:
+Mentors have two primary roles. Consider both options as you chart your own, unique path through Kernel.
 
-> Make Friday Office Hours awesome.
+1. Make Wednesday Office Hours awesome.
 
-During each block, we host a 1-1:30hr "Office Hours" event in which Kernel Fellows get to meet and interact with industry experts who also happen to be dear friends of ours. They can pitch their ideas, or discuss problems, or experiment with different ways of looking at what they want to achieve. Our ask of the mentors is to show up, **listen attentively**, and help in whatever way you can.
+During each block, we host a 1hr "Office Hours" event in which Kernel Fellows get to meet and interact with industry experts who also happen to be dear friends of ours. They can pitch their ideas, or discuss problems, or experiment with different ways of looking at what they want to achieve. Our ask of the mentors is to show up, **listen attentively**, and help in whatever way you can.
 
 This help is not limited to any one thing. It can be technical advice; pointed and specific questions about product-market fit; strategic analysis; design and user experience insights; offers for funding or investment; connections to other developers/designers/DAOs/VCs who are better placed to help; instructive stories about your own experience with similar ideas or products and so on.
 
 We want to make Kernel Office Hours into an [institution](/learn/module-4) in the sense of a practice or custom around which many different people can gather in order to advance their own, diverse ideas about - and ways of practicing - excellence. We can only do that with your help.
 
+2. Be the assigned KBX Mentor to 1-2 Kernel Fellows (and their projects).
+
+You will meet with the project(s) at least 2 times, depending on your availability and preference. 
+
 ## Giving is Receiving
 
 Of course, providing this help is not a one-way street. By agreeing to mentor Kernel Fellows each Friday (or, if you really need, on a more bespoke schedule), we hope that you find alpha in at least two ways. First, insightful time spent exploring the latest, greatest ideas in web3. Second, through friendships which make it possible to play infinite games and relate more freely.
 
-Kernel is an opportunity to serve, and Office Hours is your place of practice.
+Kernel is an opportunity to serve and is a place of practice.
 
 > Why do we serve? At first, it is because we know intellectually that it is a noble and pure-hearted way to live; a means of seeing, understanding, and working against the subtler parts of our ego. Later on, it is because we wish to experience how the people we serve are simply reflections of our self; how there is no true division between us and them. We serve to see our self in others; to be without separation.

content/en/learn/index.mdx

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 # Learn About a Better Web
 
-![Learn](/images/kernel_process.png)
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-## 📖 Learn Track Structure
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 | Title                                              | Personal Inquiry                                              | Web 3 Enquiry                                                      |
 | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
 | 🌠 [Introduction to Kernel](/learn/module-0)       | 🌈 [The Play of Pattern](/learn/module-0/play-of-pattern)     | ✍️ [Trust](/learn/module-0/trust)                                 |
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 ### Internal Setup
 
 1. **Crafted Reading** is made up of 2 separate pieces: a "personal" series of enquiries designed to teach you one of the principles we believe are important for your own navigation of this new and wild web; and a series of "web 3" enquiries which is more technical and goes to the heart of critical concepts that we often don't reflect upon enough, like "Trust", "Value" and "Freedom".
-2. The **Crafted Reading** is specifically not long and hopefully not boring.
+2. The **Crafted Reading** is not long and hopefully not boring.
    It should take you around 5 minutes to read each piece, so we only expect 10 minutes of reading in order to begin discussing each module. The ideas each piece presents are not "the truth" - they are intended to get you thinking so that you can come to your own unique conclusions about a wide range of critical topics. If you would prefer to listen to each piece instead - along with an extended discussion of it - just add "#listen" to the end of the url. For instance, https://www.kernel.community/en/learn/module-5/listening-stories#listen will take you to the audio for that crafted reading. 
 3. **Curated Material** is specifically **not** a long list of links no-one will ever have the time truly to reflect upon.
 4. We have picked 3-4 pieces for each week, in different formats (video, text, audio), and we have written detailed briefs for each piece. This is because we don't want to flood you with information; we want to teach you how to find the best information and then use it to transform your understanding and develop the skills required to work with decentralized systems and tools. We recommend that you familiarise yourself with each brief before the conversation starts.

content/en/learn/module-metta/start-small.mdx

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 2. That its attainment is possible on the basis of the materialist philosophy of ‘enrich yourselves’
 3. This is the road to peace
 
-The first claim leads us to the question, “Is there enough to go round?” which begs the deeper question, “What is enough?” Who can tell us? “Certainly not the economist,” writes Schumacher, “who pursues ‘economic growth’ as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.” Lacking any appropriately modern ethical source, Schumacher demonstrates how the growth in demand which results from everyone having ‘more’ raises questions around two key factors: the availability of natural resources and the capacity of the environment to cope with the degree of interference implied (which disproves the second point above). Looking once more at the the ill-conceived essay of Keynes, Schumacher suggests that:
+The first claim leads us to the question, “Is there enough to go round?” which begs the deeper question, “What is enough?” Who can tell us? “Certainly not the economist,” writes Schumacher, “who pursues ‘economic growth’ as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.” Lacking any appropriately modern ethical source, Schumacher demonstrates how the growth in demand which results from everyone having ‘more’ raises questions around two key factors: the availability of natural resources and the capacity of the environment to cope with the degree of interference implied (which disproves the second point above). Looking once more at the ill-conceived essay of Keynes, Schumacher suggests that:
 
 > “The foundations of peace cannot be laid by universal prosperity, in the modern sense, because such prosperity, if available at all, is attainable only by cultivating such drives of human nature as greed and envy, which destroy intelligence, happiness, serenity, and thereby peacefulness.”
 
@@ -124,4 +124,4 @@ _and disinclined to long journeys._
 
 This is all wonderful on the individual level, but how are we to create an economics of permanence which are the foundations for peace? Permanence can only be dogmatic in a world entangled with time and its many changes. There can be no permanent foundation to anything–just ask [Ozymandias](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias)–unless what we are speaking of exists outside time. How are we to find the strength for this seemingly impossible and timeless journey? Gandhi described it well, pointing out that only the soul has a timeless nature, and is therefore permanent, which attracts and founds eternal wisdom. Even more importantly,
 
-> “This recognition must amount to a **living faith**; in the last resort, non-violence does not avail those who do not possess a living faith in the God of Love.”
+> “This recognition must amount to a **living faith**; in the last resort, non-violence does not avail those who do not possess a living faith in the God of Love.”

content/en/tokens/tokenomics/nouns.mdx

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 ## Preparation
 
-1. Read through their current proposals to get a sense for [governance revolving around NFTs](https://nouns.wtf/vote). 
+1. Read through their current proposals to get a sense of [governance revolving around NFTs](https://nouns.wtf/vote). 
 2. [Shawn's thread](https://twitter.com/sdimantha/status/1439331675826114560?s=21) provides good context for everything from IP to open brands to subDAOs, which are all discussed throughout the call.
 
 ### Additional Resources
 
 1. This article on [legitimacy](https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html) will provide useful context.
-2. The NounsDAO monorepo is one of the best there is. The auction house is forked from Zora, the ERC721 from OpenZepellin (with some small but well thought-out and documented changes), the governance from Compound. Take a look at [this contract in particular](https://github.com/nounsDAO/nouns-monorepo/blob/master/packages/nouns-contracts/contracts/governance/NounsDAOLogicV1.sol) if you're a developer.
+2. The NounsDAO monorepo is one of the best there is. The auction house is forked from Zora, the ERC721 from OpenZeppelin (with some small but well thought-out and documented changes), the governance from Compound. Take a look at [this contract in particular](https://github.com/nounsDAO/nouns-monorepo/blob/master/packages/nouns-contracts/contracts/governance/NounsDAOLogicV1.sol) if you're a developer.
 
 ## Group Work
 
 You can follow the work we did together when in discussion [on this Figma board](https://www.figma.com/file/m5uqNsC5x0WrY3j29xscgn/Tokens-Guild%3A-NOUNS?node-id=776%3A136)
 
-<Video src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/cFs5cAzafFU" />
+<Video src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/cFs5cAzafFU" />