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Equipping
When I was a Christian, we used to talk about 'equipping'. This was the notion that it was the church's job to teach and prepare members of the community.
'Equipping' was many things but it included:
- Teaching about the Bible and how to live
- Encouraging people to pray
- Providing people with models to be functional at work, as parents and in marriage
- And so on
My church saw itself as a coordination hub for its community. If there was a problem, the church though that it was it's responsibility to fix. Sometimes in EA I think we have too little of this mindset. It's great to give people agency, but there are some similar problems that community members face. And they could be 'equipped better'
- Providing everyone with easy access to the resources we think make people most productive
- Providing everyone with easy access to the resources we think make people happiest
- Creating a space where community members see their value in correcting experts
- Allowing people a way to create track records of predictions, projects and funding decisions that will allow them to control more resources later
- Creating processes for people to find friends, collaborators and mentors
Solutions
- Summaries
- Yearly EA quiz which pays