steadycooper.bsky.social
🌱🐖🐔🥫 Permastead in 6b
🦬🦬🦬 Promotes Rugged Interdependence
🥾🏕️🛶🚲 Does outdoor things
🎎🧳🛠️🪡 Supports Cosmopolitan Localism
🌐🏫🫘 Believes in Systems of Cooperation
🕸️🙋🏼🌻🥏 Practices Oblique Leadership
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I'm guessing this must mean the majority of their constituency doesn't want them to?
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This feels like the general tech trend since...at least the 80s.
And the general economic trend since...a while...1800s? 1940s?
(This could be just my American view)
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In the book, it refers to the impact of a job/role/business on society.
The lack of clarity this quote refers to in the book is a deep seated lack of understanding of how the job is useful to society.
It's a good, fun book with an important point! I recommend reading it :)
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My take has always been that the "bullshittyness" was more related to real societal advancement and well-being of people.
So I'd think perfect clarity on a job that doesn't do one of those would still be "bullshit", no?
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Sure, CI is great but by definition is not a major pivot.
Find better ways for scribes to write is not the printing press ;)
Agile made some stuff better, but we (as a community) should never really have expected it to end any differently than TPS/Lean.
IMO we need to focus deeper for real change
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I dont think its sad...agile was a tweak, a repackaging.
But still more continuous improvement, not major advancement.
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I'd love more thoughts on which are *not* bullshit jobs.
Where *should* we be encouraging growth and development and rebalance of the related funding and career/vocation compensation?
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I'd even suggest growth *before* profit.
And that the fiduciary responsibilities of executives is merely the tax they pay to ensure their own well-being.
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IMO Agile was not really an advancement of anything.
It was a repackaging of (already dying) progressive industrial-era ideas for software/digital.
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interesting! I'd never heard that.
I've grown celery for a few years now, but interplant it mostly for is beneficial pest properties...so I always wind up with way more plants than what we actually would eat (and often chop-n-drop them at the end of the season)
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huh...what is this supposed to do?
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Scraggle Beard definitely sounds like a wannabe pirate.
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But the private sector *is* efficient.
Folks just are honest about what it's really efficient at :)
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yeah, the Yarvin stuff is...yeah :/
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ah, yeah, I can see that...probably pieces in there I'd agree with in some ways...more the what than the how
also, my take on you need BOTH the affordances I'd mentioned to allow the freedoms I mentioned to happen humanely (IMO)
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the language I've just shared was intended to be flowery/market-y - and I was trying to achieve a similar tone to the declaration of independence
in fact, a declaration of interdependence ;)
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NR?
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Hmm, maybe related, but I also wrote this:
people must be able to freely and fairly alter, abolish, and
disassociate from any community, collective or confederation while retaining the freedom to establish new socio-political organizations.
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that being said - I did take a stab at what *my* beliefs are on fundamental rights are and came up with:
No person or group is inherently superior to another and all people should be afforded dignity, autonomy, and the freedom to pursue their well-being
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I think we should always assume that some sub group will always disagree with the larger group, and when that eventually happens, how can we allow that to exist humanely?
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I was just writing about my take on rights in general :)
tldr - I'm not sure its useful to discuss rights...or perhaps more accurately, its about as useful as debating faith :)
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<3 the Ostroms
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all of them?
please?
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yeah, personally I'm not sure we *need* hierarchical States, but pragmatically speaking they are here and not going away anytime soon...but I do dig the kropotkin-eque view of federalism, which would maintain that final power should reside in the constituency (over simplification)
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it will be really fun to catch up in July :)
Some how CO seems closer than PA lol
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I am a fan of "polycentric governance system" (as its inline with a more modern application of some of my more kropotkin-esque leanings)...I assume the theory is what that is derived from?
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I'll look into that.
I know I've mentally reframed and "rewritten" a lot of cosmoloco in my head for my own uses because I like the feeling of the possibilities hidden behind the specific words in the portmanteau...so...mostly marketing I guess :D
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fwiw, I do think its possible
but I also think its generational
and clearly, it wont be without pain along the way :(
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I believe to effectively get any results on this path, people will have to act via Community and through the lens of "cosmopolitan localism".
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most levels of government, from where I sit, seem to have become too untethered from people.
I would promote a current focus on devolving power to better levels of abstraction and rerooting power in subordinate structures in the current hierarchy.
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Lol, fair.
However it's clearly not a problem for some :)
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That would require them to *do* something likely not aligned with their purpose, no?
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C:\
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Or printing presses!
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Sorry, which question?
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I'm very anti coercion.
(I'm surprised you don't know this about me.)
I think many folks push for fast change not realizing how coercive they are being.
Worse, when this is pointed out, folks seem very quick to justify it for.some greater good or moral high ground.
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Definitely true.
I can imagine what would need to be true for it to happen.
I just can't think of any examples of it having happened.
Every example of something I'd consider positive social change took a long time and followed more of a "groundswell" approach.
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I'm not actually sure large scale social change can be both inclusive and non-coercive :/
Maybe if it's "downscaling" the change...but even then it would require those with "more" to give up existing advantage willingly.
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Hmm, well I'm admittedly less familiar with this point in history, but what I do know did not lead me to believe that the other royals, courtiers, servants, and serfs didn't all just cooperate without force, threat of force, or fear of retribution.
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Hmmm...we may have very different ideas about what coercion is, if you don't consider beheading coercive :)
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Do you have an example of fast, fundamental social change that was not coercive?
Fast being defined possibly as within 2 generations?
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A few times :)
Related to your previous example, a murmuration isn't a fundamental change. It's merely a manifestation of something that is already normal to that species.
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Sorry, here I was using "change" as shorthand for deeper social change.
Probably something around leverage point 5 or 6 and higher using Meadows' leverage points as common reference.
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You can rest assured that was probably a good choice as most are scammy trash anyhow and don't cover shit.
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Yeah :(
I just learned about Tangled News from a friend
www.readtangle.com
Can't endorse it because I haven't tried it, but I'm cautiously optimistic enough to try it :)
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I'm not sure as many people specifically want vs it being highly psychologically addictive, especially wrt small media bites (headlines, short videos, etc)
But modern media has always been more about taking engagement vs providing what people want, so ...