Sometimes I find myself disappointed with the daily discourse.
It just isn’t all that productive.
Societal discourse vacillates between one pop culture event or world ending scenario after another, jerking our way forward like a kid learning to drive stick into what is ostensibly a better future for all.
That’s when I opt out and go heads down.
Nearly fifteen I-phone generations later, we’re still pulling cobalt out of mines in Africa for lithium ion batteries and throwing senior citizens into unreasonably cold winters in the snow belts of Europe.
What is the solution? Where are the solutions ? Why aren’t things getting better?
Look in the mirror , it’s you….it’s me, it’s the bureaucracy and paperwork of implementing change. It’s the lack of time, it’s the abundance of distracting content.
It’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t matter, predicated on an old model of reality that refuses to completely fade from our collective memory.
When I’m quiet I’m heads down on something , but in poking my head up, I realized something.
There’s a lot of people feeling the same thing as me. There’s an angst and an energy boiling to the surface to see some real concrete and life improving changes for the net whole of the people on earth.
We’ve all been waiting for it to JUST HAPPEN - a magical dues ex machina. Worse, if we start trying to make it happen we may get discouraged.
A systems approach
My solution isn’t a silver bullet by any means but it’s a theory I have that “many hands makes for light work”.
Networking with the right people with complementary skill sets at the right time can have a powerful cascading effect on your ability to test ideas, work them out and bring them to the citizens of this planet.
We are overdue for change so here are some strategies
Find purpose - a problem worth solving
Network & Find alignment - people with the same mission
Ideate - experiment and play with ideas
Deploy - get something built and in the hands of the people who need it
Debrief - talk about how it went, how you could do it better, scale it up
Do it again.
It’s like lean startup but for your life and for the planet.
We need to rapidly increase our odds of innovating , some of that is calculated risks that have little chance and small upsides of reward, but when you spread these out over multiple party’s and individuals so that they are aligned to core motivations , you can make things happen quickly.
This is where we need to harness the technology we currently have to operate border less, asynchronously, and transcendent of local time. There’s at least five billion of us on the current internet, lets find each other, use translation software, and leverage AI to kill the administrative work it takes.
Now get out there and fail faster so we can get to the good stuff.
AK