What do you think about local-only responses to local issues of concern? For example: forget global charities building wells in far flung countries. Can local charities help ensure local people have clean water, and leave it at that?
There’s two local charities near me that I appreciate. One gives free healthcare to uninsured people. The other re-distributes prepared commercial food that would otherwise enter the waste stream. Small scale local organizations that deliver tangible results without intention to grow.
Now: maybe the success of these ideas translates to a town in the next county establishing a similar effort. Copycat the good idea.
Local assessment and influence is the only thing I can see working sustainably and without the corruption of incentives that large-scale effort produces.
The problem is that in the short-term, it’s very difficult to not feel like you’re being overrun by the steamrollers of the modern world, i.e. local economies are being constantly eroded by companies like Amazon which are so unbelievably more convenient than anything a local business might provide.
But economy aside, yeah when it comes to doing good in the world, I only trust in small-scale actions, because that’s the only way that the feedback of intention + action + result completes, and that the process of atomization can start healing. Otherwise you have to replace ‘intention’ with ideology/chasing metrics, and ‘results’ with ‘metric we are optimizing for’, and it becomes a number game once again.
I'll "yes, and" this and say, this project is about expanding that scope of "local". My "local" includes my immediate family & friends, my trust network, my coworkers. Take that tight trust network, and expand it as far as you can + create a public entry point to it (anyone can come to you, but you don't let anyone in your trust network, unless you trust them)
the fastest growing internally coherent/aligned trust network wins (as we do this process we will run against networks that are coordinating but in secret. And they won't admit they are coordinating, but it will become very clear if we are coordinated)
What do you think about local-only responses to local issues of concern? For example: forget global charities building wells in far flung countries. Can local charities help ensure local people have clean water, and leave it at that?
There’s two local charities near me that I appreciate. One gives free healthcare to uninsured people. The other re-distributes prepared commercial food that would otherwise enter the waste stream. Small scale local organizations that deliver tangible results without intention to grow.
Now: maybe the success of these ideas translates to a town in the next county establishing a similar effort. Copycat the good idea.
Local assessment and influence is the only thing I can see working sustainably and without the corruption of incentives that large-scale effort produces.
The problem is that in the short-term, it’s very difficult to not feel like you’re being overrun by the steamrollers of the modern world, i.e. local economies are being constantly eroded by companies like Amazon which are so unbelievably more convenient than anything a local business might provide.
But economy aside, yeah when it comes to doing good in the world, I only trust in small-scale actions, because that’s the only way that the feedback of intention + action + result completes, and that the process of atomization can start healing. Otherwise you have to replace ‘intention’ with ideology/chasing metrics, and ‘results’ with ‘metric we are optimizing for’, and it becomes a number game once again.
I'll "yes, and" this and say, this project is about expanding that scope of "local". My "local" includes my immediate family & friends, my trust network, my coworkers. Take that tight trust network, and expand it as far as you can + create a public entry point to it (anyone can come to you, but you don't let anyone in your trust network, unless you trust them)
the fastest growing internally coherent/aligned trust network wins (as we do this process we will run against networks that are coordinating but in secret. And they won't admit they are coordinating, but it will become very clear if we are coordinated)