This is what the future of media looks like | Hamish McKenzie
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What if the polarizing mess of social media, clickbait headlines and
addictive algorithms isn't a breakdown of media but a transition to
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fuller
from blurb on Dave Pollard's book 'The Sweet Spot'
from blurb on Dave Pollard's book 'The Sweet Spot'
I've been looking at an interesting blog called GreenRenters...
They say they're trying to fill a gap in the 'conversation' about sustainable living - because most information and marketing is addressed at homeowners, who are able to make structural changes to their property, and are less transient in their address.
As renters ourselves I can certainly relate. As energy prices rise it will be interesting to see if government start to mandate the provision of things like insulation and draft proofing in rental houses. Because there's no doubt that living in a badly designed/fitted home can cost you a packet in energy each quarter.
GreenRenters has got some nice vegetable recipes too, they even look delicious enough to maybe convert a meat lover like me...
I was reading Dave Pollards addictive blog "How to Change the World" again just now, and he writes; "We don't need 'leadership' or 'leaders'. What we need is experimenters".
I think what he suggests makes sense - a leader is supposed to know the answers, they're expected to be wiser and more experienced than the rest of us - whereas an experimenter doesn't need to know anything, an experimenter can be anyone, an experimenter can focus on questions; and it's only by asking questions that we can grow, and that we can achieve real change.
As Bruce Mau exhorts in "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth":
Ask stupid questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.
Bruce Mau: An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
And here's an excerpt from Dave Pollard's Blog post where he discusses 'experimenters' and viral, bottom-up change:
The way to create working models that work better than the dysfunctional ones we have now, in a complex system where no one is in control and no one has the answers, is to try things. A lot of small-scale experiments, bold, different, even wacky. And then compare notes with each other about what works (and why) and what doesn't (and why not).
That will allow the successful experiments to spread, virally, and be adapted and improved. Eventually, bottom-up, it will allow us to create decentralized community-based self-managed political, economic, educational, and social systems that actually work well, for each community.
Unlike most 'leaders', experimenters are:
- collaborators: they don't do anything alone
- facilitators and coaches: they help others to learn and discover how to do things better
- demonstrators: more than just communicators, they show how it works and what it means
- ideators: they imagine what's possible, and tell stories to bring those ideas to life
- innovators: they take those good ideas and realize them, make them real
- researchers: they study what's been done, in nature, by other cultures and communities, and what's needed, and spread that knowledge
- connectors: they bring people together who were meant to work together
- model-builders: they design and build something that can be understood, replicated and adapted by others
- founders: they start new things -- enterprises, communities, different ways to do important things; they build something new rather than criticizing what exists
The power is in all of us.
Thanks Dave!
Lets have the kind of conversations that lead to doing (& thinking)
1 comments Posted by Kate McMahon at 8:59 am
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own." Goethe (from Dave Pollard's fascinating & ecelectic blog)
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