Corrections and addition

A friend introduced me to another of his friend at a gathering
- He said I had a podcast
  - Shy
    - Practice explaining what it is
      - Talked about WOTs
      - Talked about taking the idea to the next level
Said decentralization,
- he interrupted me and told me about anarcho-syndicalism
- Explain to me what it was
  - Decentralization too
- Said I would look into it
  - Didn't talk again about this that night
Guy heard decentralization
- Thought "I know what it is, let me show you what I know"
- Made an assumption
Way back home, looked it up
- Good exercise to compare it to Navision
Anarcho-syndicalism
- Wikipedia: "an organizational model that centers trade unions as a vehicle for class conflict."
- Similar to communism
  - Focus their ideology on solving the class conflict
    - Poor vs rich
    - "Us vs them" way of thinking
    - Comes from a place of anger
Organized with trade Unions
- Anarchist organization
  - Anarchy is an organization model that has no rulers.
    - Funny, defined by what it isn't
      - Not by what it is
    - Ideas = all citizens rule and govern
      - Argument that this freedom, lack of rule, bring chaos
      - According to anarchist, it's the opposite. Freedom from the state brings back order.
Navision is organized quite differently
- Not anarchy
  - No rulers, but there are leaders that emerges
  - Organization of smaller networks can be different from one to the next
    - Doesn't matter for larger network
Anarcho-syndicalism built on trying to solve a problem (class conflict)
- Problem emerged because of the current system
- Not built on first principles
  - Doesn't question whether class conflict arises from the way we live or how we consume
  - Doesn't look at what we want to build, it looks at what it wants to avoid
Grow trade unions until they can overtake governments
- Replace current system
  - Not creating a new system disconnected
  - Assumes everyone is part of that system
    - Even those who don't believe in it
- No pilots, no learning
- Assumes their idea will work without testing it
Built on a theory
- It's a big idea. A singular big idea. A singular vision
  - They are seeing only one tree
    - How to organize the economy to prevent class conflict
    - That is one tree
- Navision is the forest
  - It's not a big idea
    - It's the soil where big ideas can grow
- Built to be practical
  - Don't focus on theoretical destination
  - Focus on how to get there
These ideas can span all aspects of society, not just the economy
- May be non-sense for a lot of people, but they make sense to you, and hopefully to you too
- If it doesn't, let me know, so I can make my explanations clearer
Like I said, Navision is not trying to be anything else than itself
- I've never studied ideologies. I'm aware of them, but that's it.
- A friend once said to me: most times, the people that revolutionize a field are people that come from outside the field.
  - why? Because they don't have preconceived ideas. They can build with first principles. And in my case, my main thing is complex systems.
- So when I started this project, I decided that I would not go out looking for answers in things that were already out there. And these ideas are out there and are not implemented, maybe it's because they don't work.
No, instead, what guided me through all this is what a Good Life looks to me
- Based, unlike these other ideologies, on a Way of life
- Which is the title of this episode.

Story

Memories long past

Intro

What did we talk about

Humanity is on a big boat
- The boat is heading toward something dangerous
- Cities on this boat that are the cause of the problems
- Leaving the city to build a settlement
We're not leaving alone, but as a tribe
We're planning our settlement to replicate the organization of a forest

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Gas industry
- Destroyed the land
- If profitable, why subsidized?
  - !Argument that it creates jobs is stupid
    - Would you harvest moon dust event if it supports jobs? The problem is a need for income. Need for income is NOT to survive, but to afford luxuries of our times (technology and always more)

Before building the settlement, lets think of what kind of life we want to grow within it

Forests support our Ways of life
- Sustainable
  - Includes being fulfilled
- Reconnecting people with
  - Nature
  - Other people
  - Themselves
  - Decisions that impacts them
We look back at the city, see how people live there
There are workers
- Gears in the machine
- A number
- Treated as spare part
  - Run machine as fast as possible, knowing some will break
    - Gears can be replaced
    - Mental health crisis
- Inequality
  - CEO 40X worker, now 300X
  - Doctor 4X nurse, now 8X
  - Firm owner 5X secretary, now 15X
Workers are consumers
- Harder to afford basic things
  - Food
  - Accommodation
- Being manipulated with advertisement and social media
  - Using psychological tricks
  - Abuse our attention
    - Commodity = sell us more things
There are some small business owners
- Cannot compete or bought by large chains
  - Large chains manipulate the market
    - Sell us crap that they know will break down
There are people who want to change things
- Incite you to vote one of two option
  - Dividing people
    - Breaking down trust
  - Pretending like it will change
- System doesn't prevent have good leaders
  - Doesn't happen, why?
  - People who want leadership positions are self-interested
  - Why? Capitalist system is teaching us
    - We should be self-interested
- Capital, money is the central idea of both sides
System is not designed for human life
- Designed for accumulation of capital
- Money machine
- Keep the machine running, designed for control
  - Control with technology

Analogy

Analogy of the settlement

A settlement is a small village
- Settle assumes new ground
  - We're pioneers
Priority items
- Housing
- Finding food, hunting and farming
Many projects going on at once
- Take many roles
- Join different projects, even just to give opinion
- See what they like
- See what they're good at
- Not just work, purpose -> tied to survival
Mix of communities
- Tribes
- People that trust one another
  - Similar vision
  - Fun together
  - End of the day
    - Relax + Appreciate work they've done before moving on to the next thing
Once survival is established
- Continue to build, improve
- We can slow down
People are joining
- Pace that can be supported by settlement
  - Don't need to go viral - will loose control of settlement
- Needs onboarding
  - Bring your city way of life, we will build a city, not a settlement
  - If you come open minded, you will let go of who you were. You will become someone new
Vision
- Survival of the settlement
  - Of the species
  - Based on communities' needs
    - Relationship with nature

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Rely on each other
- Not only about work
- Don't count our time
Have fun
Not at war
Concerned about survival
- Thriving
  - Different definition
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I want to travel
I want a parcel of land to care for
- Not everyone wants that
Ultimately, it's about managing not wanting what others have that I don't have
Communism is to fight that idea. You can't envy someone if everyone owns the same thing
- But I think it's looking at the problem the wrong way
- We're unhappy. Source of unhappiness is the fact you don't have this or that
- Way of life transform to belief system

Analogy of the turtle

As we take care, we realize that humanity is not on a boat
- Giant turtle
- Alive and has agency
- May want to get rid of us
- May still change her mind
  - Get ready for the impact anyways
- Reminder not to grow too confident
  - Wary but confident
Same for the city (wary)
- Diverge in idea
- Even if we're not directly opposing it, may still want to get rid of us
- Best defense is decentralization
- Power divided so destroying one part doesn't destroy the whole
- Wary but confident

Practical

You pay to enter a competition -> commitment to do your best
You participate in research for free -> you care about what they find

Non-members can long-in & use website but not full functionality - get people in
Doesn't have to be full time job either
- Who says can't hire someone if they're only in the thinking stage?
- Why not start you own business?
What do we provide?
- Vision
- Guidance
- Connections
- infrastructure
  - Website
  - Online representation
- Funds
You have an initial tribe
- From the public
  - Started small
    - Gatekeeping
      - Share same ways of thinking and vision

Growth

Elder council has their offsprings when they have more than enough to manage
- Hire and form a new one that become independant
Chain of charity
- Buy for the next person/people - as a gift

Network

The network we're building is from new ideas
- Uses existing technologies
- Rely on future technology, pushing problem ahead
  - Simple solutions are better
- Work from the human first, not technology. Figure out the technology according to the humans
Priority thing to build?
- Tree that is Navision
  - WOT is part of it
  - Entmoots is another one
    - Someone listening will know what I mean here
- To be discussed
- Basic communication platform
- Things that bring money

Working for the network

So we can use funds to provide for people building the platform
People working for the network = not work = purpose
- Real jobs are stressful
  - Do they have to be?
- Don't push too hard on people
- Time is not a commodity. Time is all we have
People living close to work
- Spend less time commuting

Day to day

Live close to friends & family
- Easier to see them = see them more often
Small local communities = aware of what is going on
Participate in local decisions

Consumption

Buy local
- Bring back local pride
Buy better quality
- Things last
- Well made, quality material
- Aesthetic -> beautiful
  - Including our buildings
    - Shape spaces and tempo -> our habits
    - Buildings need in-between spaces, places made for beauty, for appreciation
- Also what is built by the network
Satisfied with what you have
Sustainable
- Reusable, including packaging
- Maintenance is obvious
- Share

Platform

Help with sharing
- Material possession
- Recipes
- Local arts
  - Small markets
- Skills
Job openings
News within the network
- Celebrate achievement
- Serve as cautionary tale
- Not based on grabbing attention
Updates to visions
- Discussions about next direction
Full transparency of funds
- Where the money goes
Decisions
- Sanctions
- Changes to the vision
- Pilot
What the network is up to
- Idea development
- Pilot testing and learning

Knowledge

Participate in research
- Solution-oriented -> like a pilot
  - Observing -> testing
- Examples
  - Digestive issues
  - Mental health
- Try along with other people
  - Journal along the way
  - Share your experiences
  - Fight back the endless contradictory information we see on social media
  - Do real science - not broad generalization
Learnings in a knowledge base
- Network style - Wikipedia
- Identify
  - gaps
  - What people are working on
    - Avoid studying same thing
- Monthly issues with findings available on the platform
Media people
- Videos, reports, stories
- Helps with growth

Growth

Pace that is feasible
- Form of on-boarding
- Including revision to Ways of Thinking
Once grown enough

Bigger growth

Information of businesses
- Help figure out what business is missing in which area
Personal information for members
- Address
  - Rebates for all local shops near you
  - Relocation services
  - Help figure out infrastructure
    - Transportation
    - Bike paths

Connection to the outside

Advocacy group that communicate desire of network to current system
- Help figure out housing crisis from pilots
  - Suggest edits to zoning laws
- Removing subsidies of fossil fuel industry
- Rules against AI
- Policies on sustainability
  - Suggest tax at production
- Parallel but still connected
No central power
- Distributed within the network
- As strong as the connections between the people

Outro

Characteristics

Fit healthier lifestyle
- More sustainable
  - More local
  - Produce less but better quality
  - More sharing
  - Consume less
- Yet more opportunity to be happy
  - More time with people
  - Jobs that is more than work -> purpose
- Empowered in decisions
Start small, but large scale potential

Inspiration

Current systems are a replaceable gear in the machine
- Replaced because all the same
- We're helping the machine produce
- And a product
  - Collect information about us and use it against us to make us consume the output
Melted in a new shape
- Unique, beautiful
Tool to build settlement
- Take care of the turtle whose back we're on
- So she can take care of us

Exercise

System to support building something you're proud of
- Say spend less time watching TV
- Doesn't matter if you have time if you have no energy because you'll end up watching TV
System to manage your energy to start building something you're proud of
- If you start with what you have to do, you deplete your energy
  - Comes the time to work on this other thing, no energy left
Identify when do you have most energy?
- When you should work on this
Find strategies when you have low energy
- What gets you started?
- 5 minute timer / promise of a small reward
- You get energy as you start
- Remember turtle and the hare
  - Huge sprints exhausts you
  - Consistent effort is easier and better
Identify what drains your energy
- What stress is running in the background
- What do you get distracted by
- What mindset makes drains you?
  - How to avoid those?

Poem
Our dreams for sale, our hearts for hire
We've left the machine to build our own shire
Reclaim our life, the old made new
On the turtle's back, we'll make it through

Extra

First believers medals
Personal investment (return on investment)
- Invest in network
- Don't get as much money back, but get other benefits from the network
A vision for a network of gardeners, part of a larger steward network
- Take care of the land
  - Clean the streets
  - Harvest from the forests in a sustainable way
  - Monitor wildfire risk in local forests
  - The produces are sold at the local commerce network and each produce can be tracked
Tree of knowledge
- Theory of carbon sequestration and fire. I take piece of knowledge and branch it out in learning about something. Research is like a branch(high analogy). Your roots are all the ideas you pull from, make a theory (tree) and you branch in questions (hypothesis). As the ideas become proven, they go into the roots and soil for nee ideas to grow from. Why it’s called a tree of knowledge.
- Knowledge is a branch
Sustainable Economy
Sustainable Resource Management
Bank networks
Insurance networks
Practitioners that learn through a master and apprentice method to create stronger craftman
Stewardship in polygons
- Stewardship network
  - Fresh food
  - Project, the stew
  - Managed polygons

Project, The Book of Whys