Hamming Circles: What Personal Bottlenecks are Holding You Back?

While he was at Bell Labs, the mathematician Richard Hamming was known (http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html) for sitting with different prestigious scientists and asking: “What are the most important problems in your field?” A week later, he’ll follow up with asking,”What important problems are you working on?”

Kind of an arse, but he gets to a really critical point. Some problems are much more important than others. The same question can be applied to your personal life: “what are the important problems in your life, and what is stopping you from working on them?”

For this meetup, we'll try to use a group rationality technique called a “Hamming Circle”, where we cooperatively help each other identify and try to resolve bottlenecks to what we each consider to be the most important problems in our lives. This can potentially be very useful.

Schedule:
7:15-7:30 -- Meetup, mingle, order food if necessary

7:30-7:40 Hamming Circles Explained. Split off into small groups

7:40-8:40 We work on Hamming Circles.

8:40-? Mingle again, relax, eat food if ordered.

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