Name: Community Dinner - Slack Matters More Than Any Outcome - Wed 2025/08/20
Start: 2025-08-20T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-08-20T21:45:00+02:00
Location: Teamwork

What if your attempts to improve your life, through discipline, optimization, or “just trying harder”, are actually feeding the very structure that’s keeping you stuck?
This month’s discussion centers on **Valentine's “[Slack Matters More Than Any Outcome](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xEHy9oivifjgFbnvc/slack-matters-more-than-any-outcome)”**, a powerful post that explores addiction, inner conflict, adaptive entropy, and the idea that *letting go* might be more generative than pushing through.
We’ll read, eat, and unpack:

* What exactly *is* adaptive entropy?
* Is "force" ever a useful strategy?
* What does it mean to *earn trust* from your subagents?
* What happens when we stop outcome-fixating—and listen instead?

This isn’t a self-help session, though it might end up feeling like one. Expect deep takes, introspective tangents, and a few disagreements on what it even means to “accomplish” something.
**Encouraged reading:** [Slack Matters More Than Any Outcome](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xEHy9oivifjgFbnvc/slack-matters-more-than-any-outcome) by Valentine
It's a long Essay but it's definitely worth the time.
If you plan to come, please make sure to [sign up](https://forms.gle/wD7meHyYnv4JGG817) so we know how many to cook for!

### Event details:

* 2025/08/20 - 6:30 pm - 9:45 pm CET
* Teamwork, Müllerstraße 35, 80469 München
*Go through the black door (give it a good shove). Walk through to the back of the yard, enter the door on the left, go upstairs, and knock on the first door on the left.*
* 🔗 [Sign-up form](https://forms.gle/wD7meHyYnv4JGG817)

### What to expect

* **Cooking & dining**: We'll prepare some Vegan food (dish TBA) together
* **Discussion**: We’ll open with key ideas and follow with open, respectful conversation.
* **Community**: Come for the food, stay for the people. Like-minded, open-hearted, and curious.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
Best,
hill and Patrick

Patrick Gruban

hill

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