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Veteran's Day: How a Brief Stint with Homelessness Informed the Anti-Fragile Playbook
The Anti-Fragile Neighborhood Wealth Production model is designed to bring forward the hidden wealth of neighborhoods, creating an accessible, inclusive story of the future for all, no exceptions.
What’s in the package?
The Anti-Fragile Playbook is an easy to follow guide for self-governance, and features a neighborhood franchise, where the neighborhood goes into business with itself to create a citizens assembly that’s entirely self-supporting and regenerative.
And in this Podcast, you'll hear how the insights gained by Kent while sleeping in his truck and walking the homeless camps deeply informed the design of the self-sustaining microeconomy and self-governance framework which serves as the foundation of the Anti-Fragile Playbook.
Within days of being homeless, it didn't take long for Kent to connect with fellow vets on the streets, and it was through using the services at Right 2 Dream Too, Kent was able to watch the functions of a self-governing community, managed by the homeless, many of whom are veterans.
Some of these veterans shared well-informed ideas for how the community could come to manage their own affairs, on their terms, and in so doing move away from being treated as dependents, few of whom expect a hand-out. Thus: financial self-sufficiency is a baseline goal for a community seeking to reclaim its dignity.
Months later Kent was hired as CTO for Bitnation, which aspired to create a decentralized self-governance solution for stateless people and refugees. For context: in 2017 Bitnation was awarded recognition by UNESCO for their services to Syrian refugees.
Self-governance makes sense when you've been ejected by your own country, when you're on the edge of a war zone, or your community has experienced a natural disaster, and these fringe expressions of self-governance are "brought back down to earth" when viewed through the lens of a veteran forced to live on the streets; survival is an essential challenge, and "governance" isn't a theoretical or escapist exercise.
It's through all of these experiences that Kent settled upon his vision with 214 Alpha, providing human-based and technology services to help people self-govern, and in so doing: reclaim their dignity, on their terms, with a particular emphasis upon the most vulnerable among us.
It was from fellow veterans living in the streets Kent was reminded of the rich gift economy, where the selfless gift of generosity often makes the difference between life and death.
It's from these experiences that we have the highest confidence that we are all going to be ok, just as soon as we get over our sense of decadent entitlement and assumption that we can afford to continue throwing people away, and rediscover the wealth with surrounds us, beginning with the person asking for a dollar at an intersection.
As Kent says: "three years ago, that person was me, thank God."
Paraphrasing Ruth: "in our pursuit of wisdom we transform from otherhood to brotherhood, because we are each other's keeper."
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By Kent Dahlgren
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The Anti-Fragile Neighborhood Wealth Production model is designed to bring forward the hidden wealth of neighborhoods, creating an accessible, inclusive story of the future for all, no exceptions.
What’s in the package?
The Anti-Fragile Playbook is an easy to follow guide for self-governance, and features a neighborhood franchise, where the neighborhood goes into business with itself to create a citizens assembly that’s entirely self-supporting and regenerative.
And in this Podcast, you'll hear how the insights gained by Kent while sleeping in his truck and walking the homeless camps deeply informed the design of the self-sustaining microeconomy and self-governance framework which serves as the foundation of the Anti-Fragile Playbook.
Within days of being homeless, it didn't take long for Kent to connect with fellow vets on the streets, and it was through using the services at Right 2 Dream Too, Kent was able to watch the functions of a self-governing community, managed by the homeless, many of whom are veterans.
Some of these veterans shared well-informed ideas for how the community could come to manage their own affairs, on their terms, and in so doing move away from being treated as dependents, few of whom expect a hand-out. Thus: financial self-sufficiency is a baseline goal for a community seeking to reclaim its dignity.
Months later Kent was hired as CTO for Bitnation, which aspired to create a decentralized self-governance solution for stateless people and refugees. For context: in 2017 Bitnation was awarded recognition by UNESCO for their services to Syrian refugees.
Self-governance makes sense when you've been ejected by your own country, when you're on the edge of a war zone, or your community has experienced a natural disaster, and these fringe expressions of self-governance are "brought back down to earth" when viewed through the lens of a veteran forced to live on the streets; survival is an essential challenge, and "governance" isn't a theoretical or escapist exercise.
It's through all of these experiences that Kent settled upon his vision with 214 Alpha, providing human-based and technology services to help people self-govern, and in so doing: reclaim their dignity, on their terms, with a particular emphasis upon the most vulnerable among us.
It was from fellow veterans living in the streets Kent was reminded of the rich gift economy, where the selfless gift of generosity often makes the difference between life and death.
It's from these experiences that we have the highest confidence that we are all going to be ok, just as soon as we get over our sense of decadent entitlement and assumption that we can afford to continue throwing people away, and rediscover the wealth with surrounds us, beginning with the person asking for a dollar at an intersection.
As Kent says: "three years ago, that person was me, thank God."
Paraphrasing Ruth: "in our pursuit of wisdom we transform from otherhood to brotherhood, because we are each other's keeper."