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How to Fix a Country in 12 Days
But the revolution is actually happening in the boring details, like how you manage housing and water, or who is allowed to speak.
Annalee Newitz • The Terraformers
Of course residents want to know what their city will look like after the red tape is cut. It’s only human. Failing to specify will not prevent prioritization tradeoffs from happening; it’ll just cede that decision to speed and profit alone.
Jasmine Sun • 🌻 tech right (disambiguation)
The most successful movements have radical flanks as well as moderates, the radical flanks creating space for the moderates to compromise. But later on, agitation has to be followed by cooler work, turning ideas into routines, institutions and jobs. Who will deliver it? What will the buildings look like, or the flows of money?
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
You need to be unhappy with the status quo, have an exciting vision for the future, and determine practical and concrete first steps. That’s what scores of people, myself included, identify when we want to change something.
Every • Why Is It So Hard to Change?
You actually can contemplate creating a new (cognitive) foundation for the world, something that vast numbers of very different people will actually want to count on. It’s been done before. It doesn’t require anything literally impossible. It’s not wilder than stuff respectable people discuss freely like “building AGI” or “creating a new and better... See more