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Why Can a Wild Comment Stay Inside Rosedale?

at 15:22

From the episode: Can You Engineer Serendipity?

Answer

Rosedale is a physical room Zac Solomon runs for serious, non-dogmatic argument. The project started very niche. Zac Solomon seeded it through X with a lot of newsletters. About a year in, it changed and became much broader. The room itself is broader still.

The wider room filters for how people communicate, the rigor of the discussion, and a non-dogmatic approach. A person can stress-test an idea they do not necessarily believe. Nobody holds them accountable. The talk is not online, so a crazy comment is not held against the person who said it. The room tries to find a deeper truth together.

Filmmakers come in often. Writing is not required unless the person is a screenwriter. The earlier circle and Rosedale overlap, and the room is built to go past writing alone.

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Can You Engineer Serendipity?
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Evan Baehr, Chris Taylor, Zac Solomon, Jason Scharf
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