- Intro chat

- Understanding what IA means in practice, its relevance for the future of work, contrast from traditional university-style education. 

1st Meetup: Interdisciplinary Autodidactism - What and Why?

(browsing domains and selecting one-to-learn, emerging interdisciplinary domains, bird’s eye view vs worm’s eye view exploration, adjacent-domains vs distant-domains)

Coming up with generative questions to anchor and direct your interdisciplinary learning journey.


2nd Meetup: Territory Exploration & Generative Questions

(asking a generative question, gathering essential materials & tools, not reinventing the wheel vs context absorption, evolving your note-taking approach) 

Discussion on exchanging nifty tips for collecting, compiling and curating self-learning resources. Sharing personal learning processes. Thinking about generating a public artifact. 

3rd Meetup: Brain Input  for Smart Self-Learning

(capturing your strong ideas, finding the right discussion peers, establishing an idea-exchange habit, making prototypes, mutual troubleshooting assistance)

Discussion on using the acquired knowledge on the most-generative edge of your self-selected interdisciplinary domain to create a public artifact. Feedback and iteration. 

Exploring relevant formats of artifacts and effective ways to publicly share your self-acquired specific knowledge. 


4th Meetup: Creating a Public Artifact

(showcasing your creation in public, contributing to a growing domain, building an interdisciplinary body-of-work, monetizing your creation, collaborative projects with fellow creators)

Gathering feedback on released public-artifacts from fellow learners and domain-relevant people outside the club. 

Discussion on emerging ways of effective peer-collaboration and opportunities for networked career-building. 

Pairing up  with accountability partners to mutually reinforce the habit --  ship early, ship often. 


5th Meetup: Peer-Collaboration  & Networked Career 

Join fellow autodidacts to explore generative interdisciplinary questions and create public artifacts together, to leverage the web for building a career with more professional autonomy. 

House of Interdisciplinary Autodidacts

Join fellow autodidacts to explore intriguing interdisciplinary questions together and to learn the secrets of leveraging the web for more professional autonomy and free-agency.

Pilot Cohort - HoIA

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## Introductions

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## Logistics

We'll use Zoom for weekly meetups (Sunday 12PM, US Eastern Time) and Discord for asynchronous discussions and lounging. If you don't have these apps already, pleas install them. 

Zoom Meeting link for every weekly meetup can be found in the Event description, along with the agenda for the meetup. 
Discord Server invite will be shared during the first meetup.

## Start Learning!
You can read these to get more context:

1. The Antidisciplinarathon - an experimental project where experts from multiple different disciplines collaborate to produce something fresh. 
Link:  http://hypotext.co/antidisciplinarathon

 2.  'Modus Operandi of Experimenting Generalist'  - an essay (series)  from my email newsletter from last year, I describe my self-learning process as an interdisciplinary autodidact. 
Link: https://daybrew.substack.com/p/modus-operandi-of-experimenting-generalist

3. Twitter conversion w/ Yogi Jaeger on the problems of restricting your thinking within a single specialized domain. Link: https://twitter.com/yoginho/status/1216996163787939841

4. Social Physics -- A collection of research papers dedicated to interdisciplinary research -- aimed at solving the complex problems of today by borrowing ideas across different research disciplines. 
https://www.nature.com/collections/hfafjbjbgdLink:


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Retrospective


## Learning Goals

Interdisciplinary learning in the 2020s is a disproportionate advantage for autodidacts who value high leverage and autonomy in their professional life. An autodidact's process continues to evolve as the broader landscape of knowledge as well as the specific context of his domain-of-interest evolves. Networked thinking, regular curation of our information-diet, and peer-collaboration are some of the crucial elements that an interdisciplinary autodidact must internalize in his learning process, through practice. 

In the **House of Interdisciplinary Autodidacts**, learners will explore the most-generative-edge of their self-picked interdisciplinary domain (a suggestive list of such domains will be provided but learners are free to choose something outside the list as well), discuss the personal process of autodidactism with peers, and use the newly acquired interdisciplinary knowledge to generate an unique artifact to share publicly.

**Weekly Autodidact Challenges:** A weekly topic chosen for self-directed learning, that club members will research on, share their learning with others on the forum and create something tangible with their learning. Potential topics include:

  1. Small-World Networks in Real World
  2. Incentive mechanisms in Game-Design
  3. NFTs/Social Tokens in Crypto
  4. Private space-tech industry
  5. Bioinformatics
  6. Living Spaces Design for Remote-Workers
  7. Next-gen Consumer Robotics
  8. Urban Public Spaces


## Structure

There will be 5 Saturday meetups of 60-75 minutes each, on Zoom. There will be a hyperlink forum to continue the asynchronous discussion throughout the week. You will need 5-10 hours of self-learning time between the weekly meetups to independently explore the generative questions that arise during peer-discussion. 
Club members can also access the Discord Server with discussion lounge, resource-sharing channels, impromptu calls, and virtual coworking space.


## Who Should Sign Up

Signup if:  
- you have interdisciplinary curiosity
- you enjoy taking initiative
- you value high autonomy in your professional life
- you want to leverage collaboration to accelerate your upskilling process
- you want to leverage your self-acquired knowledge to catch unconventional professional opportunities across disciplines

Don't Signup if:
- you need spoon-feeding to gather learning resources on the web
- you aim to have a career limited to a single traditional domain 
- you don't have 5 hours of self-learning time during the week

Pilot Cohort - HoIA

House of Interdisciplinary Autodidacts

1st Meetup: Interdisciplinary Autodidactism - What and Why?

2nd Meetup: Territory Exploration & Generative Questions

3rd Meetup: Brain Input for Smart Self-Learning

4th Meetup: Creating a Public Artifact

5th Meetup: Peer-Collaboration & Networked Career

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