Around the time I discovered LessWrong I coincidentally stumbled up Toastmasters public speaking clubs, and think the rationality community would be well served by supplementing directly organized LW meetups with piggybacking off TM meetings:
- less effort: pre-existing membership and organizational know-how without having to build from the ground up
- content: well-structured agenda with abundant content
- messaging: full-length speeches are excellent opportunity to spread rationality ideas to an open-minded audience
Around the time I discovered LessWrong I coincidentally stumbled up Toastmasters public speaking clubs, and think the rationality community would be well served by supplementing directly organized LW meetups with piggybacking off TM meetings:
- less effort: pre-existing membership and organizational know-how without having to build from the ground up
- content: well-structured agenda with abundant content
- messaging: full-length speeches are excellent opportunity to spread rationality ideas to an open-minded audience
- practice: "table topics" (... (read more)