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• Summary / adjacency
• between
  • deep curiosity
  • Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD)
  • social tipping points for complex contagion
• new adjacency relationships
  • Scott Shigeoka is a researcher on social divisions.
  • He is also queer and embarked on an adventurous, embedded, courageous and personal research project to venture into Trump country
    • to apply his academic training and curiosity to see if he could
      • find a way to form authentic relationships with people he had always considered 'the other'
    • What the one year experiment taught him was that deep and authentic curiosity is a valuable tool for learning the ubiquitous othering now prevalent in our modern world
    • Out of this experience, he wrote a best selling book called
      • Seek: How curiosity can transform your life and change the world
  • Curiosity is a powerful technique to mitigate othering and is aligned with Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators, which are fundamental qualities all humans share which are.
    • important for navigating the rapid transition our species of going through
    • whose appreciation remind each of us that we are sacred
  • Social TIpping Points of complex contagion requires building wide bridges to diverse groups early on
  • Scott's experiement illustrates building wide bridges
  • Indyweb information infrastructure is open source and supports diversity as it increases the efficacy of collaboration