Hi, I'm David, I work here and if something's wrong, it's likely my fault but if there's anything Joshua Idehen has taught me (well, apart from economic systems) is that all we can do is try , and as part of that today I'll make a single use of my self given privilege of writing the first chapter, of my personal story on this platform we're building, to tell you, that over the next few weeks, we'll be introducing ways for people to write their first chapters, of their personal stories, on this platform that we're building.

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I'll leave the details for their rightful place but we once claimed that

We're a global organization for creative doers, thinkers, and change-makers who will turn the world into a better place (...) Our community - the Tribe, as we call it - has different backgrounds and comes from various life paths (...) they all have one thing in common: they believe in protecting a place where we can build each other up, shielding each other from a chaotic and volatile sector.

This is a place where like-minded talents, business agents, and governmental partners exchange knowledge, inspiration, and opportunities to impact society through the development of the creative economy. Together, we go against this industry's selfish, dark, egomaniac side and make it a fair place where everyone can grow and thrive.

There are many ways to express our mission, this is one of them, and having a Mission is something I hold very dear to my heart and to my overall energy and motivation, the Mission drives the Work which in turn produces Results and the cycle begins anew -- keep in mind that I will make it my Mission in this post to make a Triangle analogy.

In this case, the "like-minded talents, exchanging knowledge (and) inspiration" in "a place where we can build each other up" is the driving force here. We're building a very human community and part of our job is to create the tools for it and this is what that is. A tool for you and me and everyone to be able to do just that.

Why now?

That one is easier, we're a small team, we dream big, we can't be everywhere at the same time, we've spend a lot of time building the foundations of our community, we then focused on building the tools we need to support out events and challenges, we then focused on the Business Agents part of our Tribe and so we've built a frame we're happy with, so it's time to work on the Heart of our Tribe, which is it's People, you know, you and possibly me as well :)

It's also important to us to bring in - urgh, I'm sorry if this word has become loaded over time - Content from everyone, we're still going to write content, we'll still want to ensure we fulfill our responsibility of driving the Mission and ensuring it continues to make sense and that this Safe Place remains so - again, another loaded term - and let the Community drive itself and shine on it's own.

What's the Plan then?

Unlike other features, we'll be taking a slower approach here - the focus here is two-fold - we'll want to give you the tools to write your own Story but we'll also want to give everyone the tools to Discover the Stories, but we want to make sure everyone gets what we're trying to do and sometimes, the easiest way to explain is to show, so we'll be taking a little bit of time to explore the tools ourselves, we'll bring in people who are interested and willing to suffer a little bit while we tighten all the screws and plug all the leaks and once we're happy, we'll open everything to everyone.

If you're interested, have any thoughts, questions good references, comment down below or get in touch through our contacts .

I have made use of my one-time Privilege card, which is to be the first to write a slice of my story, but otherwise, everything that I'll do here, anyone will be able to do as well -- can't wait to read all your stories!

PS: Welcome, The Entire Land?

I once saw a Brian Suda presentation where he told the story about how he wanted to write a Hello World program but in Hieroglyphs for a TShirt (yes, standard nerdy stuff) and how that ended up being an endeavor, starting with the letter L not existing and how they iterated it enough to come up with a close second - which Ancients Egyptians could, probably, understand it correctly - which is kinda like my posts, I write them to the best of my ability, hoping that everyone can, probably, understand them!

PS2: Triangles?

Ah yes, Mission / Work / Results , a triangle , and because this is in itself a cycle, and we're building something complex, I like to think of this Triangle as one of many similar ones, which if you pile them up a little bit, you'll end up with a larger triangle that's made up of these other smaller Triangles, which I find like a lovely description of what building complex structures looks like, especially if these complex structures are Triangle Shaped.

Thankfully, this has been studied and it has a name, namely Sierpiński triangle, which looks like this

Which is quite nice, because if you continue a bit further, you'll eventually wonder if you can place it in a 3D space, which of course you can

Which, kinda reminds me of Blade Runner's Tyrell Corporation building, which was a modern day Pyramid, so large that surely it was made up of tinier pyramids, kinda like we're doing here.

It's also important to note that Tyrell's logo was "More human than human" - which I think, is interesting