Had a bit of time to digest overnight and wanted to clarify this a bit further.
I’m very supportive of #3 including “epistemics of core members to be world class”. But fear that trying to achieve #3 too narrowly (demographics, worldviews, engagement levels etc) might ultimately undermine our goals (putting more people off, leaving the core group without as much support, worldviews becoming too narrow and this hurts our epistemics, we don’t create enough allies to get things we want to do done).
I think that nurturing the experience through each level of engagement from outsider to audience through to contributor and core while remaining a “big tent” (worldview and action diverse) will ultimately serve us better than focusing too much on just developing a world class core (I think remaining a “big tent” is a necessary precondition because the world class core won’t exist without diversity of ideas/approaches and the support network needed for this core to succeed).
Had a bit of time to digest overnight and wanted to clarify this a bit further.
I’m very supportive of #3 including “epistemics of core members to be world class”. But fear that trying to achieve #3 too narrowly (demographics, worldviews, engagement levels etc) might ultimately undermine our goals (putting more people off, leaving the core group without as much support, worldviews becoming too narrow and this hurts our epistemics, we don’t create enough allies to get things we want to do done).
I think that nurturing the experience through each level of engagement from outsider to audience through to contributor and core while remaining a “big tent” (worldview and action diverse) will ultimately serve us better than focusing too much on just developing a world class core (I think remaining a “big tent” is a necessary precondition because the world class core won’t exist without diversity of ideas/approaches and the support network needed for this core to succeed).
Happy to chat more about this.