World-building IRL - Joss (Jocelyne Murphy) https://boxx.substack.com/p/world-building-irl

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Preface

Choosing writing, film or coding as your world-building medium feels so… possible. Pick up a pencil, whip out your camera, learn game development — suddenly you can establish a whole reality where you  get to make the rules, craft tidy storylines, and ✨ curate the vibes

It’s   easy to forget that   the world we wake up to, complain about, and exist in every day is a world we can influence.

We will always return to the messy and imperfect lives in front of us 1 , meaning they are worth directing our creativity towards

appreciating the true  scope of your influence is the first step in building a world you are proud and excited to be part of.

This awareness led me to spend a lot of time joining, growing, and founding organizations and… social movements? Whatever you want to call “a group of people who come together to build a world better than the one we’re currently in”.

When these organizations gain momentum, the questions “Why does this work?”  and “What are you doing that’s different?”  come up often, and these questions make a lot of sense: from an outside perspective, it’s really hard to understand how SVP Teens  grew from 8 to 85 kids in a month, why Socratica coworking sessions consistently attract people from ✨Downtown Toronto✨ to Waterloo, Ontario  on Sunday mornings

or why 200-person UW Startups  events now sell out in less than 24 hours (with 49% female attendees!) — from the outside, all we’re really doing is putting a bunch of people in a room

What’s talked about less is what goes on behind the scenes — capturing and holding the attention of overcommitted-young-people  long enough to accomplish anything  is no easy task.