On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 7:45 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist <
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> The last popup city I heard of was an attempt to recreate Galt’s Gulch,
> and that failed beause of .. bears.
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> Sometimes it is just the case that everywhere that is habitable to any
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But without an actual reason for so many people to move in there, it becomes
all make work. Remember the old story where someone hands the only hotelier in
such a town a hundred dollar bill, he passes the bill on to the grocer to clear
his debt there, the grocer passes it on to some other trade
Thank you all, it is inspiring to see that it's evoking these wonderful
questions, comments, and thoughts.
The hypothesis we have for the Indian experiment, ZuGrama, is this: When
you bring a "Dunbar" number of people (~150 people, maybe it is different
for India) together, to co-live and co-build
The last popup city I heard of was an attempt to recreate Galt’s Gulch, and
that failed beause of .. bears.
Sometimes it is just the case that everywhere that is habitable to any extent
is already inhabited, and to a much larger extent depending on just how
habitable a place is (all the usual f
I forgot to reply to this :)
Guten Tag zurück aus Bonn!
Your email made me reach out to another friend/now acquaintance who was
interested in designing Life - for himself and others. It morphed into
another monster altogether but his vision remains the same.
I'm intrigued by the idea of 'buildi
On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, 23:43 Yeshodhara B via Silklist, <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
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> Also, I do not completely align with Balaji's defn of Network States,
> mainly due to its emphasis on "founders" – maybe that's why it comes off as
> a bit cultish. At ZuGrama, we want to soon have this
Sometimes the way around this is to just expand the leadership AND have regular
/ annual elections (which would coincide with dinner + beer potlucks)
So you have a division of labour (for free, mind you, so that only committed
volunteers with an actual interest in the project will step up) and m
I think one thing that happens esp with passion projects (used this as
shorthand for this kind of thing) is that the founders struggle to let the
project change. While others might share a large overlap of your passion
behind the project, it's not full. and it's hard to let go while still at
the he
On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 8:01 AM Peter Griffin via Silklist <
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But I’ve always had a problem in trying to get other people to take things
> over. Many are happy to help, but not to take over or even take large
> responsibilities. Which means that I wind up having t
