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A crash course in changing the world.
NEXTSTEP, part 1
So, one of the things I've been thinking about a great deal is:
- how do you play this game?
- how do you play it well?
- how do you play it well and make an actual difference in the world?
Because, as Elastica's blog post, "Act, Reflect, and Improve" points out, playing the game well AND making a difference in the world are not necessarily synonymous.
And there is another facet to this I've been wrestling that is summarized with is the warning:
Don't reinvent the wheel!
Starting a venture takes so many resources [time, energy, money]. What a terrible shame if Urgent Evoke unleashes a dozen new ventures that are re-inventing powerful efforts that are already underway? I say that it would be a terrible shame because all that "start-up" energy, money, time could better be invested in projects that were already underway.
One could "win" the game, be granted an evokation and still not make the most powerful contribution because you are re-inventing what already exists and diverting resources from those projects.
And then I saw the evoke "librarian" initiative. How can we use that initiative to help ensure that what is being created here is adding value to what already exists?
So I recommend that any one or any group that is starting to seriously investigate an actual implementation do very thorough research on the groups and companies that are already doing the same thing somewhere. And I recommend the "evoke librarians" take it as part of their mission to help track those initiatives down for other evoke-folk who are in the design stage.
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Comment by Fiacre on March 9, 2010 at 1:07am
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Really liked your analysis Ayala. I have posted a link and quoted from your blog under the EVOKE Librarians discussion. Thanks for the insight!
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Comment by Yemisi Ajumobi on March 9, 2010 at 1:18am
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Thanks for sharing a great insight that would be very useful to the overall mission of the network.
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Comment by Nick Heyming on March 9, 2010 at 1:27am
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Really good points. As someone who is reluctantly starting a new enterprise, we very carefully analyzed the needs of our community before we decided to start from scratch. And we didn't start from scratch, we partnered up with as many existing organizations as possible, complementing them where they were lacking.
But from the perspective of Evoke, you couldn't be more dead on. I think many of us are indeed sharing about existing organizations worth working with, hopefully we team up with them instead of plagiarize...
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Comment by Ayala Sherbow on March 9, 2010 at 3:49am
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Nick - by the way, I checked out Growcology. I am very impressed. Hope to have more thoughts to share later...
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Comment by Elastika on March 9, 2010 at 7:37am
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ayala, thank you for taking my post as an inspiration and build on it ... I love the idea of librarian initiative, I'm eager to see some more initiatives like this and thinking how can I contribute to evoke in a similar way ...
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Comment by Alchemy on March 9, 2010 at 11:00pm
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Agent Sherbow, your insights are valuable. I am awarding you +15 Knowledge Share. Agent Elastika will also receive +15 Spark for the inspiring post. Well done.
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Comment by MoE on March 9, 2010 at 11:29pm
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Hi Ayala, I just felt the need of adding my voice to the choir.
Your thoughts are precious, I totally agree with them, and hope they'll be seriously considered by every EVOKE gamer. Let's fill up its potential with sense
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Comment by Hayden Darrell Linder on March 23, 2010 at 6:45pm
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Where do you go to find out about the "librarian" initiative?
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