# Hacking Society

By [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman) · 2012-07-18

events, hacking-society, larry-lessig

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A few months ago, I had the pleasure of being part of an event called [Hacking Society](http://hackingsociety.us/) -- I helped organize the event w/ the folks at [Union Square Ventures](http://usv.com), and it was a real honor to spend a day surrounded by many of my internet heroes. It's taken us a little while, but we've been working through the transcripts and recordings from the event, and have been piecing together some video clips.  Today we posted the [first set](http://hackingsociety.us/#audio-video), and a bunch more will be ready soon.  [Fred has a post up today](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/07/the-problem-of-money-in-politics.html) about one of them: a conversation about the problem of money in politics, kicked off by [Larry Lessig](http://lessig.org), leading to some brainstorming about how we might hack at the problem.  As always, the commenters on Fred's blog are [having at it](http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/07/the-problem-of-money-in-politics.html#disqus_thread), so I'll go jump in the conversation there. I've spent a decent portion of the last few weeks listening through the audio from Hacking Society, to the point where I feel like everyone from that day is actually residing inside my head.  Which is weird, but also nice.  I encourage you to head over there and [check out the video, audio, and transcripts](httpL//hackingsociety.us/#audio-video) and invite those folks into your own brain for a few hours.  More videos will be ready soon and I'll link them up as they come.

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*Originally published on [The Slow Hunch by Nick Grossman](https://paragraph.com/@nickgrossman/hacking-society)*