Great solution. Have been seeking this for 18 plus months. Since this s a group of problem solvers, what is the solution for FINDING just one (preferably more) friend in ones area to engage with? I have so many ideas for building a life and a community outside Agenda21...but more of us noncompliance folks than not have lost access to all friends and family and neighbors over the past two years and staying offline for our safety makes it a confounding challenge to identify and build new relationships with other nonGMO humans to mutually support ones efforts at survival. Where to look and how to vett?
🙌 I keep asking on different substacks how to find other people who believe as I do. I'm very shy and don't talk to strangers easily. <- I'm scared to death.
Kate, we believe that starts with not being afraid. If we are afraid to be online and connect with others, that is exactly what the agenda wants.
Then, we believe it starts with definitiveness of purpose.
For example our purpose and mission is to end the corruption in the systems that govern over our lives, and to help others discover the growth mindset. Once you find the group of people that most highly aligns with you, be a value to that society and connect with it.
This is probably going to sound like nitpicking; perhaps it is. I only practiced psychiatry for a short period in Germany, and that was nearly forty years ago.
1. There is nothing preventing one from having PTSD and PTG simultaneously. When I worked as a top-tier global management consultant I told my clients that the only thing more dangerous than growth was bankruptcy. Growth is high stress, even when you have a well-developed plan.
2. Those subjected to the highest stress are serial entrepreneurs. As we all know, there are few successful serial entrepreneurs. Most wind up suffering repeated business failures. For reasons I don't fully understand, serial entrepreneurs tend to be inspiring or impossible to work with, or both. I would point out that both Warren Buffet and Donald Trump were successful serial entrepreneurs, a rara avis of the first order.
3. At one point in my career I was doing a lot of work with start-ups on assembling a Board of Advisors. I told them that diversity on the Board is the most important quality. The usual response was, "I have a black/Hispanic/Asian on the Board." That's not diversity. They can all be purple Martian females if they have a diversity of experience sets. Otherwise, the dreaded "Group Think" sets in.
4. A swarm of game developers might sound appealing, but I remind you that the camel is a horse assembled by a committee.
Interesting observations. We would be interested in hearing you discuss them more.
But as for the “swarm” of developers, we did not use that term on accident. The topic deserves its own article, which we plan on writing in the near future, but the results speak for themselves.
Confusing it with “Group think” is a common thing to do. It’s similar to how people confuse Bitcoin with CBDCs. Or how people might rightfully fear centralized social credit scores (like what China has) yet at the same time happily use decentralized social credit scores all the time (like the ratings systems on Amazon, EBay, or Etsy). If you are not familiar with these differences in the systems we went into detail about them here: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear
The type of system matters. A lot.
It is true that on the surface these appear similar but in fact they are not at all. Group think comes from centralized systems. Swarm intelligence comes from decentralized by highly aligned systems. They are not the same but you are right to question that.
Group think is the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.
In other words, group think stifles independent thought and overall imagination.
Swarm intelligence (SI) is the behavior of decentralized, self-organized but highly aligned systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence, and has proven its accuracy repeatedly now over and over. Here creativity and imagination isn’t stifled, it is nurtured.
Great solution. Have been seeking this for 18 plus months. Since this s a group of problem solvers, what is the solution for FINDING just one (preferably more) friend in ones area to engage with? I have so many ideas for building a life and a community outside Agenda21...but more of us noncompliance folks than not have lost access to all friends and family and neighbors over the past two years and staying offline for our safety makes it a confounding challenge to identify and build new relationships with other nonGMO humans to mutually support ones efforts at survival. Where to look and how to vett?
🙌 I keep asking on different substacks how to find other people who believe as I do. I'm very shy and don't talk to strangers easily. <- I'm scared to death.
Have you had any luck connecting recently?
Bandit, that starts with defining how you believe. Have you given this much thought? What is your one mission statement? Your purpose?
Kate, we believe that starts with not being afraid. If we are afraid to be online and connect with others, that is exactly what the agenda wants.
Then, we believe it starts with definitiveness of purpose.
For example our purpose and mission is to end the corruption in the systems that govern over our lives, and to help others discover the growth mindset. Once you find the group of people that most highly aligns with you, be a value to that society and connect with it.
Thank you so much for reading!
This is probably going to sound like nitpicking; perhaps it is. I only practiced psychiatry for a short period in Germany, and that was nearly forty years ago.
1. There is nothing preventing one from having PTSD and PTG simultaneously. When I worked as a top-tier global management consultant I told my clients that the only thing more dangerous than growth was bankruptcy. Growth is high stress, even when you have a well-developed plan.
2. Those subjected to the highest stress are serial entrepreneurs. As we all know, there are few successful serial entrepreneurs. Most wind up suffering repeated business failures. For reasons I don't fully understand, serial entrepreneurs tend to be inspiring or impossible to work with, or both. I would point out that both Warren Buffet and Donald Trump were successful serial entrepreneurs, a rara avis of the first order.
3. At one point in my career I was doing a lot of work with start-ups on assembling a Board of Advisors. I told them that diversity on the Board is the most important quality. The usual response was, "I have a black/Hispanic/Asian on the Board." That's not diversity. They can all be purple Martian females if they have a diversity of experience sets. Otherwise, the dreaded "Group Think" sets in.
4. A swarm of game developers might sound appealing, but I remind you that the camel is a horse assembled by a committee.
Interesting observations. We would be interested in hearing you discuss them more.
But as for the “swarm” of developers, we did not use that term on accident. The topic deserves its own article, which we plan on writing in the near future, but the results speak for themselves.
Confusing it with “Group think” is a common thing to do. It’s similar to how people confuse Bitcoin with CBDCs. Or how people might rightfully fear centralized social credit scores (like what China has) yet at the same time happily use decentralized social credit scores all the time (like the ratings systems on Amazon, EBay, or Etsy). If you are not familiar with these differences in the systems we went into detail about them here: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/embrace-decentralized-systems-fear
The type of system matters. A lot.
It is true that on the surface these appear similar but in fact they are not at all. Group think comes from centralized systems. Swarm intelligence comes from decentralized by highly aligned systems. They are not the same but you are right to question that.
Group think is the practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.
In other words, group think stifles independent thought and overall imagination.
Swarm intelligence (SI) is the behavior of decentralized, self-organized but highly aligned systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence, and has proven its accuracy repeatedly now over and over. Here creativity and imagination isn’t stifled, it is nurtured.
For example: https://youtu.be/Eu-RyZt_Uas
I really enjoyed the clip from Jane. Fabulous stuff!