It goes off when I turn my mic on.
I'm not trying to say my style is better than you, but I'm supposed to run the street. I'm all about the things in the land, race, we can hear it. You can hear the promise and you've got the press, so I'm a very good person to do race. You've got to be a good person to be a good person to be a good person to be a good person to be a good person to be a good person to#
So, our survives are... as we would expect.
Thank you Michelle for the support for the violence
We're just going to give it a few more minutes for people to join and then we'll get going.
These are those moments that I'm like, "I feel still space with the sound of my own voice. It's the Leo in me. I'm so tempted." What the music is doing. Is that what that's called?
I mean as the Leo rising I can relate to that.
This is the performance of the radio.
Okay, I think we're going to get started. I think everybody who's supposed to speak is here. Um, keep me on track when Caitlin gets back here. Make her a speaker. That's why you're a co-host. You got shit on lock. I'm definitely really organized. I've never actually been in charge of the technology here. So this is an
new adventure we've only moderated with our voice before. So let's get into it. Welcome, welcome. Emma is going to pin some tweets so we can have some context. You can look up at what someone called a billboard before or
a jumbo tron, I believe. So we'll have some tweets up there for reference. But again, welcome Pleasant Time Zones. Happy Friday for those of you, or at least a handful of people joining us from the other side of the world. So welcome. We are here to talk about radar
contribution to the 2023 trend landscape, if you will, in the form of our resolutions. This was sort of an editorial experiment. It was sort of an end of the year, a happy fun time. Let's close it down in a fun way. And it was co-created by an abundance of radar members beyond those
that were credited as writers over the course of two time zone inclusive brainstorm sessions in Miro good times or head by all. So we've got a handful of people from the community here including a lot of the writers that were responsible for the lovely new
newsletter that hopefully hit most of your inboxes if you subscribe to our substack. And we'll just do a quick round of introductions, round robin real quick of those of you who are going to be speaking. This is what we're going to do. We're going to do name. We're going to do TLDR on who you are.
However, you would like to present that. Tell us where you're calling in from and if you have one, tell us what your personal 2023 resolution is. Real quick. Doing it quick. So I'll go first. I'm Keely. I'm the research instigator at radar. I'm calling in from Chicago and my
resolution as of this morning is to profit by embracing how fucking fun and cool we are because that's something that came up at our town hall. So I'm going to embrace that and run with it. I am going to popcorn over to M who's going to give us our next quick intro.
Hello, I am the Consulate at Radar. I am calling in from Portland, Maine. Somebody who I told recently that I was here was like, "Oh, that's the cool place, right?" And I was like, "Yeah."
So I'm going to lean in and I'm calling in from the cool place. And my personal 2023 resolution is honestly probably to be better at Twitter. So I feel like we're caking it off really, really strong. And I'll popcorn it over to Matt.
Hello, good morning. Happy Friday. I'm Matt. I'm in Indonesia. And I am the incubator at radar. Potentially seen to be called cultivator.
So, TBC, my New Year's resolution as of this morning, as of just now is to train my cat to be more kind because it's very vital. It seems to communicate with the smell. So if anyone has any tips, do let me know.
That's a really good resolution. It's much neater. Am I popcorning over to one of our speakers? Yes, please. I'll popcorn over to you, Ken.
I think, I guess I'm a creative who's worked between the art and the ad world for some time now. My resolution, well I'll be like getting into it because I'm absolutely hyped on a whole punk thing. But yeah, that's me.
All right, let's go to let's go to squid. Oh, I'm supposed to handle your your fire. Hand over. Squid is also on the other side of the world and let's go to him. I'm Hey everyone, it's squid. Uh, coming in from New Zealand. So happy Friday to
people in this part of the world. What do I do? I'm a co-op for Shaddist by day, ultra runner, and most times. And my resolution for 2023 is probably being less comfortable
life. Yeah, like more adversity and good ways to kind of dislodge things are comfortable to life. Fun fact, one of the ways that Squid is being uncomfortable in 2023 is he's going to run 100 miles. 100 miles is how long Squid's going to run soon. So
uncomfortable. Killy, I thought you were going to say something about time zones because squid is always up at like three in the morning. So honestly that's even better than I expected. Embracing discomfort. A ca, she want to go?
Yeah, sure kids. Hi everyone. So I'm Akash. I'm calling from India. I'm a designer educator and a strategist and I do not have any particular
resolutions as yet knowing how successful I've been in keeping them. But I do sort of aspire to have a better work-life balance and I keep saying that but I think
Hopefully this time I'm going to actually focus more on actually generating that balance. So that's my focus in 2023. And yeah, off we go, I think moving to Emma as the next speaker.
I'm going to guess that's me. Hello everyone. Imanewal. Am I out? Bruhade depending on where you know me.
from calling from LA my future synthesis shout out to Celia Tam for that Monica and my resolution for 2023 I
keeping a nice balance or as much as possible for all the varied relationships I have alive and professional, romantic, platonic, all of them. And I will pass over to you Joe.
Hey everyone, Joe Carpita here also calling from sunny Chicago, Illinois. I'm a four-site and design strategist based out of sunny Chicago, Illinois.
New Year's resolution for me is to also help Matt's cat be more kind. I'm kidding. Actually my resolution after reading the global risk report from the World Economic Forum today is to just
survive. I just want to make it to 2024. The bar is love. Yeah. And it is not sunny in Chicago, by the way. For everyone who's wondering that's absolutely not true.
I got a reign on my parade anyway, we've got one more speaker who has joined us from Friday and that is Peter so do you want to jump in? Hi, yes, hi, I'm Peter. I am a futures researcher and I'm based out of Melbourne and my
I guess, resolution for the year. I've got two. One is more dancing and the other, I'm getting a puppy at the end of next month and so basically it's going to be making sure that he is raised correctly and doesn't destroy my house/life. And is he an Irish well found?
No, he's not. I actually ended up going for a bedding tinteria and it's a long story but I'll tell you about it some other time. But he looks like a little lamb and he's just the cutest thing to love to see. Wonderful. We're really excited for everyone's pets in 2023. I am the same way. All right. That was a little
But let's keep it moving. Just giving you a quick overview of what we're doing here today. We're going to spend a little bit talking about where this hair braid idea came from, how we got here, and pretty interestingly, I think how it all connects with where radar is going in 2023 and beyond. We're going to spend the bulk of our time talking about our
resolutions with those lovely people who authored them. And we're going to save some time at the end for a little sneak preview of what's to come out of Radar's research squad. So that'll be a fun little nugget at the end. I think M's going to pin a couple more tweets as we get into this next section.
But we just wanted to talk about where this idea came from. And I think it really just fell out of originally this notion that we're kind of, you know, we're trans and foresight and futures and culture community. And we're all kind of over what's going on in the trends discourse right now, right?
There's the fact that it has literally become a meme in an outlist that everyone in their grandma's got on whatever social network you you fancy, you know, we've got just such an over abundance of reports out there that we've got like everybody's got a Google folder of you know, I'll
100 decks that don't say a whole lot of for being honest and there's this sort of overarching vibe of like trends of contact marketing and not really, you know, having that serious underpinning. So I'm curious we had a good conversation in our Let's Get Metal channel, which is I think
I think a personal favorite. And Kida, I wanted to go to you because you know, we talked about this. I've just like the trend landscape right now. And what does it mean for you as a person who's in this industry and has been here and just like, how does it feel to exist in the trends our trending world?
It's kind of funny at the moment because there's a lot of different things when I think about it, right? Because we've got this whole kind of landscape of TikTok forecast that are emerging and some of them are really amazing and I don't want to be disrespectful of the whole sort of TikTok trend analysis sphere.
But often a lot of it is just people kind of seeing something and then saying something and not really looking the two year in advance which just turns to be what the forecasts do, right? And a lot of it's just around observation and putting names on things. And so if you think about that in terms of like some of the narratives that we think about for Gen Z and
stuff like that. It's really about, I don't know, one of the truisms in this sort of trend forecasting industry is like we always talk about, we, the industry as a whole, always talks about Gen Z as being all unique and all individual, but then this whole framing of the Gen Z trend forecast
It's basically about trying to put names on things and everything having a label and everything kind of fitting into a neat box. And at the same time obviously you've got this massive explosion of every kind of a head marketing strategy agency also building those trend narratives as well. And I think really what it comes down to is shifting
from prediction and forecasting and analysis to trend creation or future creation rather and really thinking about that is where we should be focusing our energies and that's why I love the resolutions that were created by the radar team just simply because it's taking a more active positioning in the
role that we play in creating our features rather than it being something that's like had it down from, you know, any of my former employers or something like that, do you know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. One of the, one of the tweets that I'm pinned at the top is from Matt Klein, who's also a radar member and
He's quoting from Strat scraps. It says research is simply asking questions about how the world works and asking questions about how the world works threatens established authority. The idea that research should be threatening established authority, that research shouldn't just be sort of a pressy sort of
the sort of artifact that everyone in their grandma's putting out, I think it's so interesting. And something that I think we want to do with that manifestation idea is to actually, you know, express the ability to change things and to affect systems.
which is awesome. Yeah, absolutely. And I think also it's about part of that, there's two parts this, right, which is the manifestation piece of, you know, where a co-creator in our futures. But it's also about looking at something that, you know, is kind of harder to do when you work in marketing or advertising. It's also looking at some of those apocalyptic futures because often when we think about
the future we think about the future perfect right and as individuals we do that as well if you think about something like you know I always like to like I always imagine that I'm seennier than I am right and this is like obviously an individual one but you can apply it elsewhere you know and I buy clothes for the imagined version of myself without thinking that you know I love
eating and that I don't love exercising, right? And I'm not really changing my behaviors, but we always think the future is going to be better than it is and we plan for that and we don't necessarily plan for the alternative but we don't create actions that would mean that we avoid negative outcomes.
And so, like there's the manifestation piece which means it's taking positive action towards the future you want to create, but it's also like looking at perhaps some of the darker sides of things so that we can take action to avoid those potential outcomes as well, which I think is very hard to do when you're publishing these end-of-year reports because no one wants to be the person that's like saying, hey, the next pandemic is going
coming or something terrible like that. I always want to be that person and I think we a bunch of us joked about this of like the number of times we've been told to be less negative about the world that we're painting. I mean that's just such a theme and it's such a theme that we wanted to you know just be really
honest about the world that we want to build and why we want to build them. So thank you, Peter, for all of that brilliant insight. I think the thing for us was also like continually reminding ourselves to lean into what makes radar different. I think that's something that Joe Carpita said to me once, "I don't want to want to and I try to never forget how do we always
is leaning to what makes radar different and it really is that that manifestation piece. I think that is something that we've really latched into. This gives it gave us a frame to like lean into cultivating and manifesting better futures, not just identifying them. So really thinking about these 2023 trends in like a more meaningful
and viewing them as seeds that we as a community really want to nourish. Like that became such a powerful concept. And I think not least of all because it's so deeply connects with the future of radar and like where we're going. So I want to have Matt jump in a little bit. I think this doubling down on sort of manifestation and I
accountability to the futures that we report on. It's integral to the sort of new model that we're experimenting with that we've just sort of unveiled to the community. So I'd love to hear Matt talk a little bit about just like how that fits together. Yeah sure so so along in the short
of it is that we want to cultivate subcommunities around the visions of the future and help those communities to incubate ideas to make those visions a reality. So for anyone who, and I can see a lot of familiar faces on this Twitter space, for anyone who was involved in the last
reports and feature thund you'll remember that we incubated our vision for a featuring sink through the feature thund which is made out of version of a hack thund much more collaborative open generative generis. I mean incubated a ton of awesome ideas around this vision of the feature
a community started to form organically around the stage and people wanted to be part of. We had 100+ people participating in a Featured Fund, hundreds more watch on and support. We were able to fund three ideas out of the back of that Featured Fund, but we
super limited by, you know, radar bootstrapping itself last year, you know, limited by energy resource and money and so after the future start, you know, that bubbling community kind of dissipated and the energy kind of dissipated. And so what is in the future we could
cultivate that sub-community that grows around the vision and help it launch and fly the nest from radar and become its own thing. Have a shared treasury be able to fund ideas through decentralized governance, allow anyone to be able to propose ideas and so that this momentum grows
into a thing that can make this this detray a reality. So that's the vision for this year that we're really excited for the vision for radar that we're excited to test is can we cultivate soft communities around visions of the future and if we can then
What does that ecosystem of community start to look like? Yeah, and I think what's so cool about it is that this opportunity to show people that they can be stakeholders in the future, right, that they can, you know, the future isn't just something that happens to you, it's something you can play a role in, it's something you can
invested in something you can not only see a vision of but actually help to enact that vision. And that's what we're really excited about. So then it became this obvious, you know, that's what resolutions was. Resolution sort of became our super curation process for what topics we want to chase in 2022.
It became what are the visions that we want to cultivate, which is why I think it's so exciting to pursue these as sort of the, you know, the laying of the ground works for how we think about what reports we're going to chase in 2023.
And then, you know, continue doing that sort of on an annual basis as a little bit of a tradition and a look forward. So that may give you a sense of what we're going to tease at the end. But I think that is the perfect moment to jump in and talk about the resolutions themselves, right? What are those visions of the
world that we want to see, you know, bear fruit and the seeds that we're excited to continue nourishing as a community. So we're going to start, I think, with Caitlin who wrote about Hope Punk and the reason I want to start with Hope
which she alluded to earlier, is that if any of you, and I hope most of you read a future in sync, there were moments in that where, you know, Pida and I writing it got a little dark in the past, and we were like, you know, it's the world is a world a bit of a hot mass, right? That nihilistic
that came through that whole piece in so many ways, it's awesome to look at Hope Punk as this reaction. So I think it's our favorite punk and we are excited to have Caitlin talk a little bit about this resolution that she dove on.
Hey yeah, thanks, Keely. I mean, I love it because you know, it was like not too long ago that words like optimistic, upbeat positive were like essentially cheerleader slurs, you know, but
But it's cool and not corny to be hopeful. And kind of like you said, right? It's like given the literal climate, it's I think, you know, it's not demented. It's defiant, you know, to be to be hopeful. And that's the punk at
element of it that I just, you know, it's bringing this flavor and an action to it, you know, because like for, you know, we were there when we were started talking about it and you saw me get so hyped and I've been, you know, like I said, trying to channel my own
optimism and creativity and utopian visions and yeah like moving away from so much of that like dystopian fiction to be like how can I as like you know admittedly like an exclamation marks person like how can I
channel that into my communities and my work in a way that's positive. So I love to see all these examples of people taking action because I think what we're seeing is this move away from that sort
toxic positivity which really just was not working for people. It was like sparkly wallpaper on depression or whatever and I think you know it's it's it's not about these like just collaging vision boy
or it's idk she out and you know started with you know Alexa rolling the author and she coined the phrases what was it to like against
Grimdark, you know, and sort of looking at how native that genre is and how he could against it. And it was like within a couple years, it was like in the dictionary, hope punk, as this like define as a literary and artistic movement that celebrates the pursuit of positive aims in the face of adversity. So that's kind of like, like you said, like where we're at.
right now, you know, but there's all these really fun and playful and and effective examples that I personally hope to see as like a you know groundswell for the coming years. I'd say like one of my faves
which was like a late-breaking addition actually to the resolution with the pleasure activism. And to me that's such a cool example because I mean again romance authors were probably made fun of the way that like upbeat people were right but here you have that
They did some massive fundraising and activism and really looked at this idea of like to actually have pleasure and joy. You have to have equity, you know, and looking at making change for that and both the authors and their readers were super active in 2022.
That's just one example. I mean, I always go in back to that nihilism disrespect or tweet, get in loser. We're going to re-enchant modernity. So yeah, I'll leave it at that. It's perfect. And I just want to recognize Caitlin McCompton.
writer who just in that amazing chat said it's not demented, it's defiant, and that's like the most exciting thing I think about HopePug for all of us. So being defiant in 2023. I want
I want to go to M because it actually pulls on that threat of bringing more hope and positivity and care to communities. And M wrote about community care. So I think this is a good transition. Yeah, absolutely. There were so many threads that played really, really nicely.
through these, which I don't think we did entirely on purpose, but it turns out that some of the underlying values, I think, that drive these shifts do have a lot of different kind of knock-on effects. And yeah, community care, it started as a self-care kind of falls to the wayside and community care becomes the
new imperative. When I first started like writing and thinking about this, I'm always reminded of this episode of the "Satations Needed" podcast where they talked about in the early pandemic days, like, "Just go for a walk or meditate and it'll make you feel better." And it's like, yeah, but if you're
material conditions are that you don't have food or shelter like a walk is not gonna make that work for you right and like don't get me wrong I love a walk it's great for your mental health doing all the time to kind of save my sanity but you know I think they kind of like flatness in the
surface level impact of what we call self care that's been so heavily commoditized and capitalized had just kind of shown, started to show a lot of cracks, right? Like no amount of face masks fix the creeping existential dread or the fact that you know inflation is on the
rise and rancor breaking through everywhere. And so as we started to look at like what do we replace that sort of service level of care with this theme of community was so so strong. And I thought it was, you know, kind of something that you can pull on so many threads from
philosophy where I was looking at radical rest from the nat ministry and from other folks, I'm going to forget their name, but the person who does indigenous internet and search to think about what do our digital selves look like when they're informed by philosophies?
but are much more sort of collective. And he also is a nerd for this fact. We don't really love it because it's a classic westernization of western white people taking things that weren't theirs. But you know the story of Maslow's hierarchy where
of actualization is the most important and then Maslow actually stole that concept from some indigestated American folks who had community and belonging as the most important. So he flipped it and went kind of on the individual and now some of the kind of older
and ancestral philosophies are coming to the forefront. And as things start to crumble and our institutions fail us, we have the opportunity to kind of think about how we rebuild in those kind of lines and in those guardrails. And so it was just a lot of really great
things showing this sort of trends towards this and how we can continue it and it looks like everything from you know mental health is right for disruption via blockchain technologies and then quadratic funding is how we support communities in local spaces that they don't have
necessarily have those networks of funding in hard times and everything from bike libraries to tool libraries to mutual aid fridges to communal bakeries to people just creating networks on their own for things like parenting or meditation or
or ways that we can just simply support and be sharing in the things that are challenging. And I'll actually actually shout out also Samar's who it couldn't be here on third places and how caring spaces take their eyes
because I think as we think about the community networks, we also have to start to think about the places that those need to exist and how our built environment influences the way that we can gather and bond in both community. And so that was a really nice tie-in as well. Yeah.
I'm going to go to a cashenox to double dipped. You wrote two resolutions and they're both very sort of reactions to the rather fucked up world we've been living in. I know you have two resolutions, but you don't get double the time. So that's all I'm saying.
I'm excited to hear you talk about anti-ambition and this crazy weird world of grief and healing. Right, yes. Yeah, and I believe they all sort of tie in very well, so we wouldn't need to sort of extend the time. But yeah, I mean, with respect to sort of the anti-ambition movement, which is
is very interesting stuff going on. I was reading about it some other day that I mean it's not new. I mean we've had tons of times where people have started to question the constructs of work and what is the value that it's bringing in our life
But something feels different this time. Something feels more rooted this time. Something feels bigger this time. And I feel that it is actually is because we are really, I believe that yeah, COVID-19 was a bit of an accelerant or a catalyst. But there was a lot of stuff that was bubbling inside.
very literally seeing that the constructs of work are actually correlated to so many things, extractive capitalism, the fact that there is no rest and how rest itself, the lack of rest itself is actually a political aspect that people are realizing and waking up to and the whole
all, you know, thread that we have about anti-ambition movement really talks about how be it quite quitting or career cushioning or any of these big trends that we are looking at starting with great resignation. They all are tied up. They all are tied up with the idea that, you know, we are
actively seeking to find out ways in which we can ask in a new era where we have a more comfortable and a better relationship with work. That's not to say that people want to be lazy. That's not to say that people do not want to work. But that's to say that people want to prioritize
other things other than just work and they want to figure out how life can actually come in into the picture big time and not just over weekends or over holidays that we wait for a year to actually have. And of course when we talk about something like anti-ambition, it's extremely
contextual, the different kinds of workers that we have and everybody doesn't have the same luxury with respect to quitting or with respect to resignations. So we're definitely going to be seeing a lot of things going on with respect to this. We spoke about four weeks, four weeks, four weeks, sorry.
are increasing. We got you. That's a bit of a tongue twist going on. But very interestingly, we're seeing like the exploration of how different kinds of capitalism models can be created in big Ivy League business schools, including Harvard Business School, which is a great sign because we're really looking at
how people who have been able to, I mean, people who are instrumental in constructing the whole model of capitalism are actually refiguring it out. We're at the same time continuing the really good sign of the death of hustle culture and the disillusionment of hustle culture. And we've gone
see how exactly this ties in into the larger ideas of de-drugs which is also a very interesting space that we are actually looking at as to how de-drugs can actually be made sustainable and realistic. So that's anti-emvision and it's very very interesting and I'm very excited about this particular trend as such.
And the next one that we were talking about in the thread is about grief and healing and collective recovery and how exactly we are, we are attuning our relationships to it which is also very interesting because if you look at the whole idea of grief, I mean it feels
weird and bunkers that we just came out one of the biggest I would say times of prolonged strife in the last one century and it doesn't even feel like we got time to actually properly embrace that or properly allow it to
And that kind of signifies a lot about why we are in the age of permacrisis because at the same time we are constantly on and we are not really allowing to absorb the trauma and that is leading to more kinds of trauma. I mean of course it is coming out in weird ways. It could be in the sense of
continuing burnouts or it could be in the sense of larger macro events like energy shortage and environmental grief that is also rising with respect to solar stalsia eco-exity. So we are looking at how we are seeing a new emotional landscapes rise, solar stalsia eco-exity
is one of space. We have prolonged grief disorders coming up which is like a feeling of grief where you don't really make sense of why it is happening. Why you sad, disconnects back to how 2022 was, was rice with, you know, a sad emojis or a sad girl and, you know, sad makeup and all of those, all of
those things with respect to that. It's probably a cultural reflection of what we feel deep inside but we don't know why we're feeling that. Add to that we have a great sleep and rest crisis and that is something that is adding on to that feeling of
dread and the feeling of tenseness. And so we're also seeing at the same time people taking really interesting new and conventional steps to actually heal themselves. So seeing that the healing space is obviously going through massive disruption and a lot of great explorations. You know, we are definitely seeing
a lot of interesting things like psychotropic, coming in into mental well-being, VR being explored for mental wellness and treating chronic pain as well. But at the same time, we're also seeing some very interesting stuff like gardening, right? Many, many people have taken gardening since COVID-19, we saw a flow of about 7 million of them have taken
up in UK alone and it seems to have great impact for community well-being as well as individual well-being. We're seeing things like flarts are becoming up a lot, more people opting for rage room even though that's scientifically people say that it's proven to not be of any use.
But at the same time, we're also seeing people using a lot of anicoic chambers as well, which is place where you can't hear anything. It's the most silent place in the world, and people are using it to actually meditate even though, yeah, there was a big marketing about
that you can't spend more time there. And there was a beautiful New York Times article about it and it said that the journalist actually spent a lot of time there and three hours actually and did not find anything to panic. In fact, he felt like sleeping and it was really calming. So a lot of marketing around anticoanics chambers and
and silence, as a matter of fact, could be wrong absolutely. So we have all these very interesting stuff and along with that we're also seeing people exploring the earth going to the deepest edges as a way to heal, as a way to connect with earth and at the same time we're seeing wild swimming increasing. I was reading a very
very interesting article as to how wild swimming is increasing but at the same time there they are also unfortunately getting more infected because of the sewage that are found now in the water. So that is a very interesting way to actually understand how our treatment of ourselves and our treatment of earth is not right actually at the moment.
But it's all great, hopeful vibes actually that I see with this particular thing and connects back to the hope funk that Keetling was talking about. And I'm very excited about how these particular spaces turn out and evolve after you. Yeah, absolutely. I think what's cool about both
of these trends in tandem is that, you know, they're their reactions to how we cope with struggle, right? To how we cope with, um, the, just, the particular environment that we've been living in for so long, right? Whether that's re-evaluating and reprioritizing, um,
re-prioritizing work in its place in our life or figuring out what we need to do to get out of it and digging holes and screaming and doing psychedelics and all of these amazing new kind of weird but healing actions that we're finally finding the space to take.
With that, I think it's a good transition to go over to a manual who wrote about another sort of form of healing, I guess, this sort of shift from intergenerational trauma, it's intergenerational embrace. So I'd love for you to jump in.
Yeah, thank you. It's like a topic that's like really dear to me because as someone who's first generation and child of immigrants like Intergenerational trauma and multi generational conversations around it are very important and it's interesting to see that
in the media landscape, like we had everything everywhere. Once, which totally had me crying, Wednesday, which was very interesting, especially as a portrayal of like, a Latina character that wasn't all like, gung ho and happy go lucky.
It was interesting to see how these conversations were motivating people in the larger pop cultures I'd guys to have these conversations and look in words and reach out to family members and I actually kind of engaged in a little personal intergenerational
healing, not sponsored, but we are not really strangers. I played their family edition of their card game over the holiday with my family and it revealed a lot of things that I wasn't aware of and I felt like it brought my immediate family closer to us.
It was interesting to see you guys coming from cultures where you have things like much more small where it prevents the larger culture from having these dialogues of healing, of talking about things that happen, and there's the concept
of epigenetics about how we inherit this trauma physically and just kind of recognizing like trauma has repercussions and especially in like a futurist context of like, you know, there are some cultures that think of
how their actions will affect up to the seventh generation. So kind of thinking about like, okay, I met ancestors that is healing themselves and doing all this work, you know, and you see it all the time all over social media on like an Instagram, and tick-tock about, you know, healing yourself so you can be that that
and sister that like you know your descendants are thankful for and like thank you for going to therapy and breaking that cycle so yeah I was really excited about that topic especially to how it veered into the territory of food because food is very dear to me like it's a very
communal activity and growing up in a multi-generational household, especially around the holidays. My family being from Mexico, we always gathered together to make like, "Posole" and "Tamales". And so, we would always get together at someone's house and it would be a tamale making.
spectacle of like everyone, men, women, children, the table you had your station, you were making the tamales and so writing that portion for a resolution, it really got me in my feels. Yeah and I think that's what's so cool is you know we're seeing so many of these sort of
of cross generational sort of recognition of tradition in really simple places like we've talked about food so much and we've talked about dance and we've talked about well-being and medicine and I think there's you know even when it comes to like repair and maintenance culture I think there's just so many interesting
intergenerational conversations happening that hadn't happened before and that you know expands I think as a thread through so many of the trends that we've seen and I think one of those might actually be where I was going to go next which is with squid
and this idea of identity and the experimentation and the flexibility that's happening there, I think, you know, this this one dug deep into the idea of generations of what it means to exist there. So I'd love for you
you to jump in and talk a little bit about that. Yeah, for sure. I mean, this is a really interesting topic. It's been something I've been trained or spaced and thinking about it for a long time, because I think it's been bubbling away, right? I think when we look at the market research advertising space
I don't want to bore everyone with demography and segmentations, but there's a large, I guess, pull towards generational thinking, this idea that Gen Z, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Glass, or Gen Alpha, we kind of paint these as monoliths and then we deploy every
We don't really look at the nuances of who they really are. And I think these labels are helpful. The what we're seeing is this push towards or the embracing of these multitudes of identities. You know, we're seeing people
taking up side hustles and not being restricted or defined by their careers. We're seeing people mix and match identities, be it the interplay between the IRL space and the digital space. And we're also seeing people sort of go an impressive idea that
It's identities context-dependent so for the people who love urban government and I did have a little bit about government and the original draft but we had to remove for word count. You know this is the idea that identities are context-dependent so depending on who we are, depending on who
we're talking to and the social context we're kind of in, you know, we express different identities and we kind of manage those as well. And so what's really interesting is if we move, not necessarily towards a post-demography, but perhaps a blended space where we take demography and we take psychographic
and we kind of overlay on top, so similar to what the Horizon Catalyst, Gen Z kind of niche report that you can find in the paragraph. It kind of looks like, okay, we can use Gen Z, but how do we actually segment Gen Z into these different sort of spaces are different?
and sub-segments rather than just penn them as monoliths. So I think it's really interesting to see how we as people and then how we as an industry sort of shift in adapt to this new environment which I think is really exciting. Yeah, I've nothing truly has like ever given me so much joy than seeing a group
of scientists write an open letter to Pew being like, "Please stop using generational labels." That is just one of the most delightful things that I have encountered in quite some time. So it really is happening on both sides where we're finally coping
with this fluidity and flexibility of identity and what it means to exist contextually and then waking up as marketers to what that means. I said hopefully. So with our last resolution that we
have to talk about with Joe here, it's a little bit meta. That's why we're landing on it. We want to talk about this idea of like shifting from product to process and glorifying process a little bit as you know something worth celebrating.
Yeah, this is this is really fun and I you know as everyone's kind of sharing why they gravitated towards this I started saying why do I am I interested in this one and and I realized like the the reason it excites me is You know, I went to I studied industrial design I was my second degree that I went out
And there's something really designed school about what's happening in the world right now, which excites me and brings back fond memories. But this idea that the end result and the output is
is not necessarily as important as what's important is the process and what people want to share in the world is the process and share their learning and share their experimentation. And one place that we really seen this in the last year, that's very fun and very exciting,
is with the rise of all of these generative AI tools, Chad G.B.T. Dolly, mid-Jury, to name the three kind of big ones that were out there. I think the default was not, hey, look at this cool thing that I made.
What people were sharing were screenshots of the full chat gpt chat It wasn't just like hey look at this great thing the machine road. It was I'm showing you my screenshot I'm showing you what I said to get the machine to say that and also like the conversation I had leaves
up to that. It wasn't even the people were showing a single prompt. And related to this, something that's really beautiful about the mid-journey tool is that it is, you interact with it via a discord bot. There's not a website, there's not an app that you're doing it. You're doing it in a
where you're chatting with it, you're invoking it through a chat interface, which from an interface perspective is really great and beautiful because we all do that. We're all chatting all day now, especially three years into a post-pandemic world. And so with mid-July, not only are you invoking it with chat,
and that's something that's become very natural to everyone. Regardless of your generation and whatever label you want to attach to yourself with that, you're seeing other people's prompts, right? You're seeing what other people are saying, you're seeing the tweaks that they're making in real time.
If anyone's ever hopped on a mid-journey, like the actual mid-journey discord server where you go into one of the subchannel, it's chaos. You know, it's chaos. And people are just spitting prompts out. And what's really fun is if you hang out in there enough and just kind of watch the stream, you can see who's new and who's just learning
how to use the tool. First of all, you can see who's new to Discord and has never used Discord before. And it doesn't understand types of slash. Imagine it's very fun for me. But then you start to see people be like Donald Trump eating the hamburger because they're hungry and they're thinking about Donald Trump as we all did for four straight years.
But then they start to get, oh, okay, I see how this works. They start to see what other people are typing. And then you get to this point where people are, they start to experiment. And they're experimenting in the open and we all get to see this and witness this. And that's never existed before in human history. And it's kind of fun because
I think about like my own subjective experience of the last few months of discovering radar because I was doing research about DAO's, the future of DAO's and discovering radar and having this whole net experience but seeing this community of people that are coming together
with energy and fervor and experimenting and and you know the building at plane as it's flying kills as I know you like to refer to it reminds me of design school like in a really fun like beautiful positive way and that's not something I felt in a long time that's not something I probably felt since like my first
job at a design consultancy where we were all, you know, just just pitching in and doing it together and experimenting. And it's fun to see that, you know, both both with radar and but at this macro scale right of everybody, even people who aren't creatives, right? Like everyone's out there shitting
sharing on LinkedIn and people sharing on LinkedIn, they're sharing crap on LinkedIn. They're sharing their chat GPD chats on LinkedIn. That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. But it's bubbling up all these interesting discussions about, you know, am I making a thing here, you know,
is the the the prompt engineer I think is the term or I can't remember what the designers are starting call themselves like a prompt designer probably something lame like that you know it's not lame it is lame as I'm just saying designers like to co-op terms for themselves in a way that's not constructive
But it's really beautiful. I end it with this whole debate about, "Oh, are you really creating? Are we stealing? The actual property?" All stuff that I'm sure came out when the printing press was invented or the photocopy or anything.
Are we actually making things or are you just stealing? I love all that stuff because it's like, hey, we talked about this before in the 1400s. There's still craft there. There are still be making things. I saw a tweet shared on LinkedIn because that's the hell that we live in now. People are just sharing content from other platforms and other platforms. And it was like, hey, in
is not going to replace you a person using AI is going to replace you and it's like oh that's that's beautiful and haunting and great and I think it's part of it captures the spirit of like or I don't know if it's spirit but it captures the like hey maybe maybe rather than looking
this is a threat doubling down in my own ways. Maybe this is something I am, I'm not saying I joke arpeida, but I as a person, right? Seeing that hopefully one sparsely. Hey, maybe I should explore this. Maybe I should look into this. Maybe I should see how I can start embracing that centaur lifestyle and working smarter, not harder, and also
share what I learned, you know, share my learnings along the way. That was a little rambly. No, it was perfect. It was perfect because I think that idea of working in public and you know, building the plane as we fly it and
being okay with that and having that almost like design school vibe. I think you captured what has drawn a lot of us into web 3. Yeah, to the extent that we're in web 3, right? Like, you know, this ethos of working in public, this ethos of sharing what you make, I think that it
is exactly what we want to capture. And I think that's why I wanted to end on this idea of from product to process because it's exactly, you know, what we're doing here, we're letting people into the process of what we do. And I think that leads us perfectly and somehow exactly on time. I don't know how.
So to the last five minutes where I wanted to talk a little bit about letting you guys into our process and letting you into what's coming next. If you read the resolution's piece, you may have noticed that we didn't talk about the very first resolution on the page, which is all about playing.
play and how play takes precedence to an approach to life beyond leisure. And we are so excited about play that it's actually going to be the next topic that we pursue really deeply as a community, a more playful future and what that looks like. So on that note, you know, this idea of taking
I'm making a more playful approach to just about everything in the world. I'd love to do just like a quick round robin with those of you who have spoken about like what you're excited about exploring with play and we're talking like one to two sentences about what you're excited to to explore about play because I think as a
community were super-empt and we're excited to start letting you guys into this process more and more as we go through and you know from research all the way through to cultivate. So with that in mind I'm actually going to start with Matt give us a little why are you excited about play.
So, many reasons, I'll be quick. So, I think what we're excited about with radar, this will be us the second time we run this process, is designing the process in a way that feels like a manifestation of the future that we want to live in. So, the process of cultivating
the future feels like the vision of the future that we're working towards. And so yeah, super excited to see what more playfulness looks like within this huge thought and incubation process. I'm very excited for that and has not actually heard you were articulate about before, so I can't wait to play. Who wants to go next? Shall we go?
So M? Yeah, of course we should. The Leo in me is like give me back the mic. I think there's something really fun about play because the first few triathlon
felt so it was like a toy box of Lego spilled out. And everyone had all these building blocks and it was so lovely like that. And I think that there's something really wonderful being able to channel that energy into a space that's even more intentional when we were thinking about it in sync, but there's
was so much joyfulness in the format and I'm very excited to see that come to life. A posh, why are you excited to pursue play? Oh yeah, I mean it's a very interesting subject and I mean one of it very directly sort of connects with the
that we have circled back to play. And I think it's something very deep change making that it can actually allow us to actually look into. And I think it's very, very interesting. So yeah, I'm completely on board to actually explore it. - Yes, we're gonna go so deep. Joe, real quick.
Why are you excited about play? Fun fact about me, I am addicted to Minecraft. It is a big part of my life. It is a zen experience for me. It's how I process and think and just kind of be creative and sketch.
I think I've been trying for years to figure out a way to use it to create deliverables. And I think, call it a bunch, but I think this might just be the opportunity where we could have some form of Minecraft world as part of the deliverable
If anyone's ever checked out the, there's this real, I'll send it in chat, not here, but there's some really amazing worlds that people have made that are storytelling and create this immersive experience. Is that library? Yes. For a bit, the forbidden library. I forget what it's called.
I'm excited about playing just how
It's changed because it used to be something local and now it's like global and who knows like a thousand years from now it could be like cosmic So I'm really excited about that concept of play cosmic play. That's where we're going I want to end with our last remaining resolution author who is still available to speak
apparently, which is Caitlin, and it's perfect because Hope Punk is so fucking playful. Why are you excited about play? I mean other than the fact that like a Minecraft Miro collab is like exactly what we're up for. But I guess for me it's like more
more fuck around and find out vibes and making things together. Yes, we are going to keep on talking around and finding out which I think is precisely how we under the last Twitter so we did. So I think on that note, thank you guys for joining us. Thank you for listening to us talk about our resolutions.
We really do believe in holding ourselves accountable to cultivating these futures that we report on. So hold us to it and keep following. We're excited to keep you in the process. And on that note, I think we're going to piece out.
Good night, good morning. Pleasant time zone. Pleasant time zone. Yeah.