Deep Takes on
Hot Takes

March 19 – 23 on UpTrust

Let’s have powerful, intimate conversations about the most controversial meaningful topics, that thoughtfully change our minds.

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How it Works:

Submit a short description of your memo in advance. Submit here.
We'll assign you a specific posting time between March 19–23.
Invite friends, colleagues, and your network to engage with your post—they'll also get exclusive early access to the UpTrust Beta!

Don’t want to submit but still want to take part? Join the waitlist and we’ll send an email with more information.

Long-Term Challenges & Possibilities AI, especially alignment / safety / existential risk Climate Change & Energy—denial, alarmism, solutions; renewal/sustainable energy, who are we protecting? Geopolitics, incl WWW III fears / threats: China, Russia/Ukraine, The Middle East, Space, role of US Military Population and resources; including migration, borders, racism; also governance systems, participatory, network states, holacracy, non-local, other innovations Civilizational purpose and alignment; including deep ecological awareness and orienting to the Earth as a wholistic living system with a deep-time big history view

Transforming social media

Will you help guide our global attention to goodness?

4 days of deep conversation online—Conference, Community, Contribution

Can we take the hottest, most controversial topics of today and transform them into deep, intimate meaningful conversations that contribute to everyone’s well-being?

If you’re on this page, the answer is surely “yes” amongst your closest friends. But online many of us trained ourselves to game the algorithm by putting everything in outrageous, click bait, 140 character format. Others of us exited the conversations altogether. A wise move in the current climate—but what if there was a platform where you didn’t have to?

What if these deep, nuanced views that you already have were out there, benefitting you, your community, and our civilization? What’s the potential we unlock when the vast majority of humans who are most mature, most capable of considering multiple perspectives, drive the conversation instead of simply opting out? How will we change each other’s minds for the better, revealing more truth?

That’s what Deep Takes on Hot Takes is all about.

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 it more of a “memo” than a finished paper—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.

With love

Jordan Myska Allen

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Consciousness & Human Development Mental health, wellbeing, spirituality: non-standard approaches dismissed or uncritically embraced, medication v holistic approaches, hustle v surrender, practical v aspirational, subjective v objective Meaning and purpose in work; adaptation to insane pace of change, etc Psychedelics, “plant medicine” and shamanic practices in spiritual and psychological development and health, as well as cultural and legal issues Individual and collective consciousness evolution - measurement, culture, and what to do with “meta-crises” v evolutionary tension, progress v collapse narratives, transhumanism, what is consciousness and the brain? Power and leadership: who are truly inspiring historic global leaders? How relate to past foibles? 3. Economic Systems & Markets Affordability and economic collapse: Costs, housing, wages, UBI, future of work, USA financial collapse v "everything is fine,” Wealth gap: Measuring and addressing, philosophy, history, ethics, power, including cultural aspects of wealth/poverty, etc BTC, maximalism, other crypto, currency reserves, legal, government intervention and regulation, monetary policy, etc

Questions and Answers

1) Here are some real submissions.
- “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, probably via use of the word "optics" ;)” - Blake Borgeson
- “Thank God Coaching isn't Regulated: The Free Market Correction of The Coaching Industry” - Forrest Wilson
- “Hot Take: You're doing sex wrong. Deep Take: What I wish everyone knew about the emotional presence, physical skill, and energetic magnitude of blissful, fulfilling sex.” - Annabeth Novitzki
- “Creative thinking needs to be taught and valued as highly as smart thinking, right thinking, and ethical thinking.” – Julia Hicks
- “White people moving to Costa Rica or Mexico is, fundamentally, the same as latinos immigrating to America “ - Holy Mama (pseudonymous)
—> Click for more real examples

2) Whatever you’re thinking it is, is probably right. And you’re definitely invited to reframe and remake this into something truer, more loving, and more beautiful.

3) Authentically sharing how you feel (about something controversial) rather than exclusively what’s provocative.

4) Here are some other ways to find your hot takes:
- "What I would never admit to my mom that I believe..."
- "Surely everyone believes..."
- "If I didn't have to qualify it, this is my perspective on..."
Then once you find your hot take, see if you can go deeper into what generates that opinion in you; find a deeper personal or collective inquiry to invite us into.

For example, here’s one thinking process with different kinds of "deep” from recent controversies:
- Hot take: Astronauts were left in space for political reasons.
- Deep take on a hot take (psychological): Elon (like so many of us!) feels angry seeing people suffer when he has a solution he feels is readily available
- Deep take on a hot take (collective unconscious): “Projection and powerlessness in the politics of space station rescues”
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- Hot take: Bryan Johnson is fake, insecure, and overemphasizing his health stuff and underemphasizing his plastic surgery; he’s more about perception than well-being.
- Deep take on a hot take (systemic): America has three unhealthy and avoidant relationships: death, beauty, community. These all come together in the form of Bryan Johnson’s quest for immortality.
- Deep take on a hot take (personal): “I am not at peace with my own health, my own mortality, and my lack of community… I see this reflected in the recent obsession with Bryan Johnson’s Don't die movement, and I really want to criticize him rather than being with my fear.”
Huge thanks to an anonymous conference for this concept of memos:

Memos are short, informal write-ups.
They can be under-explored ideas, something you’ve already thought and written about, unanswered questions, something you wish you could think more about, new projects, or other relevant topics and ideas.
Writing and commenting on memos can massively increase the value you get, and give from being a part of this conference:
- Memos give you a chance to get feedback from thoughtful, talented and compassionate people.
- Memos can unlock collective wisdom, and prevent the distortion that comes from ideas from developing too long in isolation.
- See what questions, points, and topics interest people and make sense.
- Identify points of agreement and disagreement.
- Begin discussions that can continue in person.
- Set the tone for UpTrust, which may set the tone for online dialogue going forward.
You can submit multiple memos.
You can repurpose a memo from another context.

“Memos” in this context can be anywhere from 2-3 sentences to 3-4 paragraghs. UpTrust still doesn’t have media uploads beyond photos, so you’ll have to link to any audio or video content.
We’ll review the submission and get back to you with a schedule time to post.
All that we ask is you
1. Create an account and profile on uptrusting.com
2. Post on uptrusting.com at your scheduled time
3. Enjoy the conversation you inspired.
We will be promoting this conversation, so while responding is not strictly required, you’re welcomet ostick around and engage! There will be an amazing array of topics, and we plan to cluster similar themes around similar times, so you may have a lot to add to others as well. You may learn something and/or change people’s lives for the better.

We believe you will get incredibly value from being a part of the conference ongoingly. Writing a memo and commenting on the writing of others will give you feedback, provide self-awareness, tap into collective intelligence, identify points of agreement and disagreement, see the unseen, begin discussions that can continue in person, and change the nature of online conversation at large.
March 15th, 12am CST.

The sooner you submit, the better—we’ll be able to organize and promote with greater ease.
That said, the platform will be open on the 18th and you’ll be free to start a new thread at any time. We simply won’t be scheduling or promoting you if you don’t submit.
Yes please do! Send them to this page for any questions, or even directly to the Memo Submission page: https://www.uptrusthq.com/memo
You also invited to submit multiple memos.
Yes, please do!

To do so, Join the waitlist. You’ll get an email with more information.
There will be plenty of people who want to read and not engage, or engage but not start a thread. You’re encouraged to find the type of engagement that works for you.
You’ll also be able to start a thread at any time when the conference starts, you simply won’t be promoted in advance.
Go to https://uptrusting.com/join-waitlist and join the waitlist. We’ll send you an email when we let everyone on.
UpTrusting.com is currently invite only, but we are likely going to make it public in a few months. So unless you post it in a private group, you should expect your content to one day be public like something posted on X or Reddit.
You’re welcome to use a pseudonym; you will accumulate trust through that profile only, but you will be able to change your username in the future.