Force Multipliers

Ref.

What can one person do? One person can:
Communicate, organise, promote, lead by example, inspire, start a movement

What can't one person do?
Live forever.

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Modern web-based communications enable one person to do the first list on a scale greater than ever before. That's force multiplication on a scale previously reserved for the leaders of countries and more recently media personalities.

There's a lot of information about using these as delivery systems to make a big impact. If you're trying to build something that will outlast any one person's involvement/enthusiasm I think it's better to look toward another kind of force multiplier, the supply train.

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Actually, screw supply trains. I think the great strength comes from being able to seed activity over a sufficiently wide area that people can run their own events without clashing. Autonomously. Self contained. Some will wither, but every so often one of those will produce one person who will take it to the next level and step up the cycle again.

Force multiplication. It doesn't have to be instant. It doesn't have to be constant. But it's there to be used.

(No, I haven't figured out "what for" either.)