01:52 - Brianna’s Superpower: Intense Empathy and Feeling Deeply

Octavia Butler: Parable of the Sower

06:28 - Practicing Acceptance vs Resignation

Making Peace Without Giving Up
Problems/Tasks vs People
Providing Alternate Narratives
Delicious Democracy: Making Things a Pleasurable Experience for All

12:04 - Delicious Democracy: A Creative Advocacy Lab

Biomimicry
Creative Ways to Form Grassroots Coalitions
Online Town
Door Knocking
Reinforcement

17:14 - Community-Owned AI

Merging Humans with Algorithms; Technology with Government
Platform Co-Op Conference
What is Ownership?
Mastodon
DisCO.coop

24:51 - Trust

Trustless = Antihuman
“Building Trust” by Robert C. Solomon & Fernando Flores
The Industrialization of Trust
Confidence Levels
Working Families Party

40:41 - Outcomes > Outputs

Measurements of Success
Measurement Theory
Proxy Measures: All Measures Are Proxy Measures

46:56 - Equitism

User-Centered Design

Reflections:

John: Unique approaches to door knocking: Changing the script.

Casey: 1) All measures are proxy measures. 2) Thinking about how growth mindset and outcomes not outputs relate.

Damien: Being able to work with nonbinary is the only way to deal with things like trust and confidence levels.

Brianna: 1) All measures are proxy measures. 2) Meandering conversations!

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