What started as a couple hosting weekly dinners in a Brooklyn loft turned into a decentralized civic society — complete with a community-run university, tech hub, arts scene, housing network, and third spaces. In this talk, Tyler Alterman unpacks how Fractal scaled without funding, ideology, or formal governance, and how you can build your own.

A little about Tyler
Tyler Alterman is a founder & artist who is interested in the research and advancement of the good life. Currently, he is a cofounder of the Fractal Campus Accelerator Program in New York. Previously he has built startups (Reserve, The Think Tank), grown social movements (Effective Altruism, Reducetarianism), run cognitive science research in and out of academia (Yale, UChicago, Metamorphic Group), and participated in a lot of weird performance art.