TechneThe Seven Sisters – Ideas to Nourish our Evolution Immanent Effectiveness: We assert that the productivity, creativity, and individual contentment that emerges from the voluntary self-organization of a group of fundamentally equal peers is higher than the same group of people organized by external design or from an authority-based relationship. We believe there is a public interest -- from the community scale up to the societal scale and across a broad range of human activities -- to increase the preponderance of such self-organizing arrangements throughout society.
Community Building: Coming from two Latin words meaning "with gifts," the term suggests a general sense of altruism, reciprocity, and beneficence that comes from working together. Communities help generate a shared language, rituals and customers, and collective memory of those that join the group. They often generate comradery, content, and context. They always create connection--with people, ideas, perspective. Communities that arise from aligned values of human inspiration are more effective than those formed through coercion or force.
Abundance or Non-Rivalrous Economy: We are just at the beginning of a major transition in the way things will be created and distributed. Something is non-rivalrous precisely to the degree that it can be costlessly shared, is unaffected by use, *and* generates network effects (i.e, the more it is shared the better it gets). Generative concepts are the canonical form of the non-rivalrous. If I have calculus, I can share it with you and lose nothing of the concept, the more I use it the better it is and the more people who have it the more valuable it is.
Attention Management: Human beings are capable of attending to and making meaning from more inputs than they are aware they can manage. Without learning effective approaches to attention management, people experience frustration and information overload. By integrating behavioral changes and technologies, people can develop the skills to manage their natural processing styles and as a result feel less stressed and more productive. Understanding one’s natural capabilities, developing techniques for attention management, and learning to apply them leads to a higher level of wellbeing and a greater capacity to contribute effectively to society.
Reputation Systems: It is evident in the evolution of the Internet that collaborative sharing of experience in the form of reputation metrics (e.g., 5 stars, text reviews) can provide a significant simplification to decision-making, and an increase in perceived effectiveness of that decision-making. It is a mechanism to establish trust and enable self-organization. It has nothing to do with what you say about yourself and everything to do with what others say.
Well-Being Science: Everyone on the planet knows they themselves need food shelter and reproductive opportunities. Well-Being Science asks: How do we move from full to fulfilled?
High Fidelity Information: Human networks are less effective once they pass the Dunbar limit because the information required to keep up with and get to know all the people in the network becomes so great that there is too little time left to create and do work. Information complexifies through a process of representation, mapping and systems. Earlier information gets enfolded into later, more sophisticated concepts. This is analogous to what Piaget called genetic epistemology (inheritance of information structures over time). There is a new concept of elegant complexity which deals with meta-systematic principles rather than (condition-sensitive) content inside systems, around which high-fidelity information systems might be built. These are not semantic principles, but meta-cognitive ones that underlay semantic structures.
Immanent Effectiveness: We assert that the productivity, creativity, and individual contentment that emerges from the voluntary self-organization of a group of fundamentally equal peers is higher than the same group of people organized by external design or from an authority-based relationship. We believe there is a public interest -- from the community scale up to the societal scale and across a broad range of human activities -- to increase the preponderance of such self-organizing arrangements throughout society.
Community Building: Coming from two Latin words meaning "with gifts," the term suggests a general sense of altruism, reciprocity, and beneficence that comes from working together. Communities help generate a shared language, rituals and customers, and collective memory of those that join the group. They often generate comradery, content, and context. They always create connection--with people, ideas, perspective. Communities that arise from aligned values of human inspiration are more effective than those formed through coercion or force.
Abundance or Non-Rivalrous Economy: We are just at the beginning of a major transition in the way things will be created and distributed. Something is non-rivalrous precisely to the degree that it can be costlessly shared, is unaffected by use, *and* generates network effects (i.e, the more it is shared the better it gets). Generative concepts are the canonical form of the non-rivalrous. If I have calculus, I can share it with you and lose nothing of the concept, the more I use it the better it is and the more people who have it the more valuable it is.
Attention Management: Human beings are capable of attending to and making meaning from more inputs than they are aware they can manage. Without learning effective approaches to attention management, people experience frustration and information overload. By integrating behavioral changes and technologies, people can develop the skills to manage their natural processing styles and as a result feel less stressed and more productive. Understanding one’s natural capabilities, developing techniques for attention management, and learning to apply them leads to a higher level of wellbeing and a greater capacity to contribute effectively to society.
Reputation Systems: It is evident in the evolution of the Internet that collaborative sharing of experience in the form of reputation metrics (e.g., 5 stars, text reviews) can provide a significant simplification to decision-making, and an increase in perceived effectiveness of that decision-making. It is a mechanism to establish trust and enable self-organization. It has nothing to do with what you say about yourself and everything to do with what others say.
Well-Being Science: Everyone on the planet knows they themselves need food shelter and reproductive opportunities.
Well-Being Science asks: How do we move from full to fulfilled?
High Fidelity Information: Human networks are less effective once they pass the Dunbar limit because the information required to keep up with and get to know all the people in the network becomes so great that there is too little time left to create and do work. Information complexifies through a process of representation, mapping and systems. Earlier information gets enfolded into later, more sophisticated concepts. This is analogous to what Piaget called genetic epistemology (inheritance of information structures over time). There is a new concept of elegant complexity which deals with meta-systematic principles rather than (condition-sensitive) content inside systems, around which high-fidelity information systems might be built. These are not semantic principles, but meta-cognitive ones that underlay semantic structures.