During our latest meetup, the DC Less Wrong group has decided that we are interested in experimentally testing various lifehacks on ourselves (on an opt-in volunteer basis of course).

We need two things:

• Metrics (to actually tell if there's a difference or not, rather than convince ourselves that there is)
• Things to test

Do any other groups have any measurements that they take to track their various attributes? Anything that they'd be interested in testing?

Sunday June 5th
Core hours: 1 PM - 3PM
Chipotle Mexican Grill
7600 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, MD 20814

Notes:
Core hours are 1-3, but many people are willing to stay around longer than that.

Directions:
The Chipotle is near the Bethesda Metro station, just follow these directions. Go out of the station and walk down Old Georgetown Road. The Chipotle is next to the waterfall fountain, and outdoor seating area.

We will be sitting towards the back of the restaurant (basically, keep going in the direction you've been walking to get to the Chipotle), in the corner with a wraparound bench.

See us also at lesswrong-dc@googlegroups.com

Sunday, May 22nd

Core hours: 1 PM - 3PM

Ballston Common Mall Food Court

4238 Wilson Boulevard

Arlington, Virginia 22203

Core hours are 1-3 PM, but many people are willing to hang out longer than that. People have stayed at previous meetups for 4 and 5 hours.

We decided to meet in Virginia to see if there are any more LWers in the Northern Virginia area, and to see if we can meet them. If you've found other meetup locations inconvenient, please show up so that we can know that we might want to try and accommodate you.

Join us at lesswrong-dc@googlegroups.com

We haven't selected a location yet, but we will meet on May 15th.

Join us at lesswrong-dc@googlegroups.com

LessWrong DC has had its first meetup! 13 people showed up, and it was pretty fun.

We have a google group here, and will have most of the planning there.

However, we haven't met all the LWers in the DC area yet, so that's what this thread is for.

We're meeting again on the 15th, but were wondering -- is there anyone in Northern Virginia who would be potentially interested, but didn't come?

Followup to: this and this

I'm going to be in Cambridge for the next week or so, so I'm posting things now to make sure that we can get the ball rolling.

There's going to be DC meetups on May 1st and May 15th. 2 PM - 8 PM, unless anyone objects.

There was discussion about whether to meet in Bethesda or NW DC. I propose that we just try a meetup in both, May 1st in Bethesda and May 15th in NW DC.

Some questions I have:

• Any suggestions on what I should look for in a venue?
• Anything you want me to ask the Cambridge meetup group?

I have some preliminary things to talk about in mind, but if you guys could think about a few topics too, it would be helpful.

There are some LWers in the DC area. We should meet up.

Unfortunately, I'm out of town pretty much until the end of April. But there are a few things to work out before then, so I might as well post now.

A meetup needs:

• People
• Location
• Time/Day
• Things to do/talk about