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Toby Shorin

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Hi, I’m Toby. I’m a researcher, writer, and technologist. I study how culture changes and how communities form, and technology's role in both. My work has been supported by Baukunst, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap Foundation, and others. Previously, I cofounded Other Internet, a 501(c)(3) non-profit research institute in the crypto space. We raised $1.1mm+ to coordinate open source protocol governance, design public goods funding programs, and study the cultural economy of blockchains. My current research is focused on the question: what is the next generational paradigm in psychology? To understand this, I’m conducting embedded ethnographic research on wellness movements and spiritual communities, studying the history of Western psychology, and looking at changing notions of mental health. The home for this project is CARE CULTURE. This question has long term and short term considerations. The long term ones bring me very near to comparative religious studies. The short term ones center

Toby Shorin Toby Shorin's Website, Year , Blog Archive Library Other Internet Subpixel Space Email Change Image Hi, I’m Toby. I’m a researcher, writer, and technologist. I study how culture changes and how communities form, and technology's role in both. My work has been supported by Baukunst , Ethereum Foundation , Uniswap Foundation , and others. Here are 3 ways of framing my current intellectual questions: Secular: What is the next great synthesis in psychological theory? Metaphysical: What kinds of new subjectivities are emerging today? Poetical: What is the destiny of the Western soul? Pr

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