Merge pull request #620 from kernel-community/r2d

https://youtu.be/69Z99Q9K_Fs

content/en/index.mdx

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-# Kernel
+# <span style="font-size:larger;">Kernel</span> is a peer-learning institution
 
-### A peer-learning environment dedicated to building a better web, together
+A Kernel Block welcomes you into Kernel with ~200 unique, talented, and diverse peers.
 
-We are building an open, peer-to-peer, lifelong network of awesome humans, one block at a time. Each block accommodates a small group of people and runs for 8 weeks. It is a unique experience.
+In a block, fellows hone a craft, further projects, and explore fundamental ideas related to the web.
 
-Together, we are joyfully subverting the status quo.
+Each block is a unique experience - co-directed by fellows, dedicated to building a better web, together.
 
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-KB8 will begin in January 2024.
+**Kernel Block 9 runs July-September 2024.**
 
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-# Learn
-
-Whether you have no idea what a blockchain is, or have been building all the decentralized things since 2009, our community will help you learn what you need to know to participate in building a better web, together.
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-# Question
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-While we provide 8 weeks of structured learning and building, our course material is entirely free for anyone to read at any time and is intended to help you ask better questions, rather than to provide ready-made answers.
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-# Play
+# Learn & Craft
 
-Conversation forms the heart of how we learn here, but sometimes we need to explore different, more skills-oriented contexts with less words and more games, project building, mindful movement, or quiet sitting. Guilds are where all this and more happens.
+Our web is our shared environment. The Kernel book displays how decentralized, peer-to-peer, open-source, and onchain technologies help us relate and serves as a source of dialogue for Kernel Fellows during a block.
 
-<Button to="/build">Build</Button>
+<Button to="/start/">Explore the Kernel Book</Button>
 
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-# Discover
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-Our community of learners has helped create one of the most wide-ranging and up-to-date curated collections of resources for people building new tools and products on web3. From designs, to specification, smart contracts, security, and even zero-knowledge tools, it's all here in one easy place.
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-<Button to="/resources/">Explore</Button>
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-## Meet The KERNEL Fellows
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-Ultimately, Kernel is a community dedicated to the journey towards a better understanding of truth: in our Web 3 projects, in our relationships with others, and in our inner worlds.
+Kernel is about balance. Each week we explore two principles through dialogue and our chosen craft. The priority is relating well.
 
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