what i’m learning

i‘ve shared (semi-contained) learnings as people ask, like here (bif), and here (four years and now), and especially here (last first 5 years). learnings are seen in findings and what matters and a be you book, a be us book, a people experiment (a lab book), in attempts/experimentation to document everything,…. and i leave trails everywhere, even when people don’t ask.

i’m working on what i’ve seen.

slideshare has become a regular canvas for all kinds of thinking/learning.

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a lovely journalist recently asked for three things i’ve learned over the last first 5 years.. this is what i wrote then:

things i’ve learned..

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that trying/seeking to model a plan for the betterment of 100% of humanity – is not ridiculous. what’s ridiculous is knowing of a narrative that perhaps every soul craves – and not boldly giving it a go.

 

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that an experiment/narrative that perhaps no one has yet tried, is facilitating curiosities in the city (an ecosystem of eclectic people/resources), and as the day (not as an add on, or an after hours)

 

 

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that with a world obsessed with proof/credentials/accolades – perhaps the only credential worth noting is – if you are quiet enough – to lean in and listen to people – yourself included/especially. resulting in fittingness, rather than fitting in. eudaimonia.

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and this is a remix of that:

1. about me

that equity matters most. it’s what keeps me up at night.

i’m easily drawn to a  person, a group, a means/art/story, but my – am i doing what matters – at least for now – revolves around making life equitable. [everyone getting a go – by scaling the individual]

what that means, learning that equity matters most to me, is that i can no longer be that ant…happy to be eating spinach. and that by not sticking to the ant, and not sticking to the spinach, i’m actually sticking to me – my offering.

i’m learning to notice/protect that.. to keep on zooming out to a narrative for global equity.

2. about change

that some/much/most/all of our research is based on assumption/lines-of-best-fit.

what if those assumptions – [ie: adolescence, basics, et al] – are wrong.

what that means, perhaps the more ridiculous thing is to keep on working within those assumptions. so i’m dying to try a new (perhaps not so ridiculous) experiment/space/mindset – in the city, as the day – no assumptions.

3. about humanity

that there is never nothing going on  – which means we pay great heed to the danger of just one story. usually, what you end up calling others out on – is what you are struggling with yourself. so rather than play defense/ego/judge/et al, perhaps we use life as a mirror.

we seem to be obsessed with proving ourselves. but it seems we can’t. ever.  so perhaps, the best credentials, are more about being:

quiet enough to hear it – having no agenda when you’re in a space

honest/vulnerable enough for fittingness/eudaimonia – be you with nothing to prove

the more we lean in to our interconnectedness, perhaps the more utopian ideals (world peace, et al) will become the norm.

ie: touch – the guy couldn’t be a part of killing once he found out who was connected to the person he was to kill. i know you ness.

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here i am working on my brain (or perhaps here or here or here):

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here i am talking about all this with Dave (who makes it easy to talk about, being a major mentor):

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oh yeah.

and i’m learning how to dance.

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what i’ve seen ness

collection of intros

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update/remix/restate 2020:

findings from on the ground ness:

1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen

2\ if we create a way to ground the chaos of 8b free people

so.. imagine if we

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update 2025:

to me.. nothing to date has gotten to the root of problem

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

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