Tag: sense making
Who's Strengthening Our Democracy - and How Do We Join Forces?
I want us to collectively flourish; for that to happen our democracies require good leadership, informed citizens, and active work to renew and upgrade our democratic sense-making.
Conversation Upgrade #1 - GBP to EUR exchange rate around Brexit
¹ I aim for Conversation upgrades and WikiSim.org to be exploring how the digital tools / mediums we're using can be improved. As leaflet.pub is focused on a standard blogging experience as both reader and writer, it's understandable that it can't and shouldn't support all the functionality / modalities of the articles I'm wanting to write. So going forward there may be many articles that just get a stub link posted here.
Conversation Upgrades
All conversations have a seed of something interesting, but not all reach their full potential. Some instead devolve into name calling ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, motte-and-bailey doctrine etc. or contain logical errors, a lack of references to validate claims. Even when conversations are conducted in good faith they can often fail to define their terms and spend the whole conversations talking at cross purposes.
What are good conversations?
A first pass at mapping out what makes good conversations
Sub-citations for efficient recall and validation of references
We already use sub-citations for books and legal documents, why not academic / scientific papers?
Thoughts on "What can one person do?"
Direct your strengths at the oppressor's weakest points to maximise true happiness for everyone.
Opportunity / Problem Statements Repository for Collective Flourishing
Inspired by the climate biotechnology problem statement repository from @homeworld.bsky.social, and various conversations with folks working in the broad Collective Flourishing space, here is a proposal for a similar repository of opportunity / problem statements.