Sarabet Chang Yuye

Running social events

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  • A meetup of bad and hostile people in a war of all against all

    Last week my friends ran an "extreme violent circling" event. They told people to be aggro and tell each other what they really thought and felt about each other. The group promptly fell into acrimony and warfare, which I and some others enjoyed. I wish to repeat this event.

  • Dinner party rating Trader Joe's frozen meals

    I got sixteen friends to sit down to dinner and rate twenty meals on a spreadsheet. Here are the results.

  • Competitive Socializing: Tourney

    Event notes for my favorite event I've ever run. Put people in new groups of 4-5 for ten minutes, get them to sticker their favorite interlocutors at the end, and shuffle. The most stickered attendees are publicly acclaimed at the end.

  • Doing the most aversive tasks, all day, with your friends

    Two rules. Finish what you pick up. When picking the next task, pick the most aversive one – not the most important one, the most urgent one, but the one that most strongly makes you go, oh please, not that one.

  • Competitive Socializing: Filler Words

    An event outline, uploaded as is.

  • Plan a small event before you go to a big meetup

    I moved to Berkeley 3 months ago, and my social network is still crystallizing. I went to a large ACX meetup yesterday and obtained the individual contacts of people I liked. Those contacts are sitting at the top of my chat app, stressing me out a little.

  • Notes: The Art of Gathering (Parker)

    The author talks more about weekend retreats, large conferences, or peace talks than about the smaller events I want to run to communitybuild. I've decided to dash this review off anyway, because designing events is so important that it's valuable to summarize major principles.

  • Wail and Gnash

    A 1-hour event where you complain about how little fun you’re having at a multi-day festival. I ran this around noon of day 3 of a 4 day festival. [5m of mingling / trickling in – make it clear that the circle will start at X:05] [Get everyone in a circle] You probably have some sort of mental sensation or physical sensation that is different when you say something that’s very true, as opposed to not quite right or outright false.

  • Conflict Improv

    Event outline for an improv game where two players play out a conflict from strategy and scenario cards.

  • Nosy Questions List

    I collect questions for "nosy, inappropriate questions" social games. This is a full list (as of March 2025). Who in your life is your literary foil? How do you act around an unattainable crush? How large of a clone community could you have before it fell apart due to frictions you had with yourself?

  • Social Event Ideas

    As someone who doesn’t have fun easily with other people, I’ve had to be creative and figure out events that do anything to my deadened social circuits. I like events that are weird, or mentally challenging, or nominally do something useful. Competitive Socializing Filler Words The win condition is eliminating filler words such as: “um”, “like”, “you know”.

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