Episode 35 - Brooke Bowman and Grin from This Part of Twitter (TPOT) w/ Ashley Colby and Jason Snyder

This episode of Doomer Optimism sees Ashley Colby (@RizomaSchool) and Jason Snyder (@cognazor) have a wide-ranging conversation with Brooke Bowman (@gptbrooke) and Grin (@grin_io) from This Part of Twitter (TPOT) and vibecamp about online communities, embodiment, and where all this is going.

About Grin
Grin is part of the core team at Vibecamp (vibecamp.xyz). His ingroups include his family, his startups (lbry.com, odysee.com), ultimate frisbee, (parts of) crypto, and friendly ambitious nerds. Find him at https://grin.io.

About Brooke Bowman
Brooke emerged from hardship a few years ago with ideas about how to thrive as humans that she's since been putting into practice by helping coordinate community building projects small and large.

About Ashley Colby
Ashley is an Environmental Sociologist who studied at Washington State University, the department that founded the subdiscipline. She's interested in and passionate about the myriad creative ways in which people are forming new social worlds in resistance to the failures of late capitalism and resultant climate disasters. I am a qualitative researcher so I tend to focus on the informal spaces of innovation. She's the founder of Rizoma Field School and Rizoma Foundation.

About Jason Snyder
Metamodern localist | homesteading, permaculture, bioregional regeneration | meditation, self inquiry, embodied cognition | PhD from Michigan State University, faculty Appalachian State University.