this is localized to a singaporean context but i think there's something universal about it. a few years ago i organized a public event at a public park, via a facebook event, inviting people to come and scream for no reason. a bunch of people showed up, it was really fun...
the people who showed up early were the best, they were super enthusiastic, earnest, kind, we hung around and chatted while we waited for the scream time which was i think 4pm or sth. and then we screamed. it was great... wait I told this story before
ok so read the above thread, especially the fb status screenshot, and then come back here and think about things like decentralization, leadership, etc etc. it's very transparently obvious to me from experience that people don't all spontaneously do stuff, leaders are needed
conversations *about* leadership can get so convoluted n tedious. one of the simplest ways to lead is to just do stuff. arguing abt leadership can be a way of avoiding doing stuff. just do stuff n you're a leader. you're leading. it ~can~ be that simple
you could read this and think "lol singaporeans are such sheep" and you wouldn't be ~wrong~, there are some historical reasons for that. but i think while there might be some % modifiers influenced by culture, this is also fairly universal, and...
it's basically my understanding of why things like, "once twitter is bankrupt we should group-buy it as a collective" won't work. it sounds wonderful. it won't work. first try organizing a book club for a year with 12 people and see if you can manage that.
another one of the great psychic divides are between people who have taken responsibility and ownership of a group of people trying to accomplish a project, and people who haven't
re-reading my status about it i'm reminded that people are so different, have so much variance. it's a truth that gets forgotten from lack of contact with external social reality. when you spend too long around some specific group of ppl u forget what people are like outside it
big part of what i'm trying to do with my utterances online (tweets, videos, books, etc) is to put out a bat signal for the lovely people who show up early, and i don't mind some of the sheepish lates, but be too tedious for the belligerent entitleds. it's working!
have you ever witnessed ppl abusing staff in public? probably not a lot, and yet this sort of signage is common and widespread, because the 1% or 0.1% of belligerent entitled assholes make it necessary. this is a real issue and serious players know to anticipate it
the problem with things like DAOs isn't the technology, it's people. technologists keep trying to use technology to solve people problems. it's both hilarious and tragic
once you understand this, you realize that it's not typically a wise idea to optimize for maximum followercount, maximum $, etc etc. for me this is also why I am realllly taking my time with starting a biz, employing people, etc. i intend to survive!
optimizing for survival is not super sexy or exciting, you don't get major accolades etc. you just show up the next day after today's media darling becomes tomorrow's trainwreck
sometimes feels like every year i watch people refuse to learn this lesson lol. but that's not who i should focus on, i should focus on the minority who get it. and I think I have been successful at slowly growing this crew. 10 years into a 60yrs long game
closing thought: when i set out on this journey i didn't fully appreciate how ugly some of the interactions would be (knew it intellectually but not emotionally), but I similarly also didn't anticipate the outpouring of warmth and kinship from other people who Get It. ❤️
if you Get It, you Get It. and I've sometimes been frantic about helping more people Get It, because when I was a kid I didn't Get It, and I crawled thru broken glass to Get It, and I want to make sure the next kid like me gets the help that I didn't. but franticness doesnt help
in fact big problem with a lot of people in leadership roles is their franticness, but that's a story for another thread...
franticness does map onto "excruciatingly meaningful". it is possible to overcommit to the bit and cause harm in the process
franticness does map onto "excruciatingly meaningful". it is possible to overcommit to the bit and cause harm in the process
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