The underlying vision and the project that externally exposures and observable are Not equal.
- A: I do a project because it helps me move in the direction of my vision.
- B: There is going to be long term value from what I get from moving in the direction of a certain vision, but I don’t want to stay there, I want to move on, so I build a place for people who want to get value.
- C: I participate in a project because it is beneficial in the short term to move in the direction of my vision
- Instead of being less efficient than A, it is often faster than doing it alone because there is synergy with other participants and resources already created compared to creating a project from scratch.
- On the other hand, our visions are not aligned, so we’re sure to leave in the long run.
- There is no such thing as “vision matches,” so it “aligns.”
- 64 said, “You used to have a book club.
- Sure, there are people who work on the same project for years on end, and there are people like me who change it frequently.
- I don’t feel the need to do the same content at the next Social Hack Day because I believe that projects are meant to be completed and the time of completion is the end of the day.
- A sense of recognizing the civic tech community as a community as a bundle of projects and that projects are fuel for progress, and since they are fuel, they deserve to burn up and disappear.
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