culture

What if transparency is the new currency? What if knowing people, being known, building a community, holds more value than what most of us end up spending most of the hours in a day doing or getting.

We’re thinking school has perpetuated a corporate America long beyond it’s need to be, if it ever was a need. We’re thinking technology wants to free us up and back to a focus on people – conversation, community, sharing, and listening.

We’re experimenting with a focus on a social currency, rather than a monetary currency. We’re thinking if you want to know how good someone is, take a look at how well the people around them are doing. Most of what we’re suggesting, doing, and being, will only thrive in a culture of trust.

… the very word culture celebrates the human capacity to learn and adapt, something the rest of society should support.

A sense of coherence is almost as needful as food and drink.   

Trying to improve people by interfering with their own preferences often makes things worse.

The question for everyone living in a world of constant contact between cultural groups, is how to become routinely sensitive to patterns, even with minimal cues, suspending judgment and looking for how they fit together.   

– Mary Catherin Bateson, Peripheral Visions

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