Thank you for this post. The framing of your points as conditional is especially helpful.
I strongly agree with lots here. As someone who has worked on community building-ish projects that are very far from or very close to frontline/object-level work, this part rang especially true:
Insofar as it makes sense to have less of a default presumption towards the value of community building, a way of de-risking community building activities is to link them more closely to activities where the case for direct impact is stronger.
Thank you for this post. The framing of your points as conditional is especially helpful.
I strongly agree with lots here. As someone who has worked on community building-ish projects that are very far from or very close to frontline/object-level work, this part rang especially true:
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