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Equipping
When I was a Christian, we used to talk about ‘equipping’. This was the notion that it was the church’s job to teach and prepare members of the community.
‘Equipping’ was many things but it included:
Teaching about the Bible and how to live
Encouraging people to pray
Providing people with models to be functional at work, as parents and in marriage
And so on
My church saw itself as a coordination hub for its community. If there was a problem, the church though that it was it’s responsibility to fix. Sometimes in EA I think we have too little of this mindset. It’s great to give people agency, but there are some similar problems that community members face. And they could be ‘equipped better’
Providing everyone with easy access to the resources we think make people most productive
Providing everyone with easy access to the resources we think make people happiest
Creating a space where community members see their value in correcting experts
Allowing people a way to create track records of predictions, projects and funding decisions that will allow them to control more resources later
Creating processes for people to find friends, collaborators and mentors
Armchair expertise is good
This post part of an attempt to draft in public. See my reasoning here. This is a personal post so if you see it, it should be because you chose to. I invite you to become a joint editor or suggest comments/text blocks below.
Equipping
When I was a Christian, we used to talk about ‘equipping’. This was the notion that it was the church’s job to teach and prepare members of the community.
‘Equipping’ was many things but it included:
Teaching about the Bible and how to live
Encouraging people to pray
Providing people with models to be functional at work, as parents and in marriage
And so on
My church saw itself as a coordination hub for its community. If there was a problem, the church though that it was it’s responsibility to fix. Sometimes in EA I think we have too little of this mindset. It’s great to give people agency, but there are some similar problems that community members face. And they could be ‘equipped better’
Providing everyone with easy access to the resources we think make people most productive
Providing everyone with easy access to the resources we think make people happiest
Creating a space where community members see their value in correcting experts
Allowing people a way to create track records of predictions, projects and funding decisions that will allow them to control more resources later
Creating processes for people to find friends, collaborators and mentors
Solutions
Summaries
Yearly EA quiz which pays