(2020-05-09) DR MacIver Initial Notes Towards A Manifesto

David R. MacIver: Initial Notes Towards a Manifesto. What I'm about is this: Dear humanity, we are fucking this up, and it's annoying me and I'm embarrassed to be a part of it.

we are universally lacking in the basic systems, skills, and ethics, of being functioning, healthy, happy, human beings, and we need to fix that, and instead we are making it worse. We do not have a society that supports the development of those, and in many ways we actively punish their acquisition. (Personal Development)

An incomplete list of things we are bad at include thinking, feeling, moving, communicating, decision making, organisation, and helping each other out more broadly

I'm trying to be a model of how I think this should work. I'm helping other people around me take steps towards the same same, by writing about it, and by building relationships that support each other's growth. And this isn't going to work.

the really high value work is in personal relationships, and there's only one of me

My work is intrinsically built around my particular strengths and weaknesses

You need to build your own tools too! And then, once you have, I want you to share them with other people. And I want you to share them with other people while understanding that their tools might not work for others.