“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius

#Bot #Quote #Incrementalism #Motivational #Perseverance

A quotation from Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) South African cleric, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Laureate
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/tutu-desmond/33394/

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"Fairphone’s progress on core impact strategies, page 21.
Under the header "Levels of circularity: 8 R’s" are 3 shaded areas pointing to "KPI 2", "KPI 3", then "KPI 3 + 4". A banded arrow along the left bridges these areas, pointing upward. Its label is "Order of Priority" from "Low" to "High".

These point to KPI 2.
Refuse: prevent raw materials use.
Rethink: redesign product in view of circularity.

These point to KPI 3.
Reduce: decrease raw materials use.
Repair: maintain and repair product.
Refurbish: revive product.
Remanufacture: make new product from second hand.
Repurpose: re-use product but with other function.

This points to KPI 3 + 4.
Recycle: salvage material streams with highest possible value.

FAIRPHONE Impact report 2021"

Page 21 of https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Fairphone-Impact-Report-2021.pdf

If that's not great alt text, idk what is.

#AltText #AccessText #EaseOfAccess #Accessibility #AccessibilityIsForEveryone #AccessibilityIsHotAF #AccessForAll #EaseOfUseForAll #EaseOfText #FairPhone #Tech #sustainability #CircularEconomy #sustainable #ethics #ethical #incrementalism #HarmReduction #LeadByExample #ProofOfConcept

https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-investment-led-approach-to-climate

This defense of #statusquo and #incrementalism as the ONLY way forward is jaw-dropping in its complete denial of the #urgency and #scale of #climatechange

#Influential people like this writer are simply unwilling to engage with the catastrophic impacts faced by folks in the #developing world where there is no recourse. For these folks - it is all a #game

#humanrights #justice #development #adaptation #migration #equality

www.slowboring.com/p/the-invest... 1/ This defense of #statusquo and #incrementalism as the ONLY way forward is jaw-dropping in its complete denial of the #urgency and #scale of #climatechange #humanrights #justice #development #adaptation #migration #equality

The investment-led approach to...

The Power and Beauty of Incrementalism

https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/the-power-and-beauty-of-incrementalism

#HackerNews #The #Power #and #Beauty #of #Incrementalism #incrementalism #personalgrowth #continuousimprovement #change #mindset #innovation

A quotation from Joseph Joubert

Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It undermines, wears, loosens, separates. It does not uproot.
 
[Imitez le temps: il détruit tout avec lenteur; il mine, il use, il déracine, il détache, et n’arrache pas.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 14 “Des Gouvernements [On Governments],” ¶ 31 (1793; 1850 ed.) [tr. Attwell (1896), ¶ 199]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76888…

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" #Incrementalism is a philosophy held by #Wikipedians who believe that with the #IncrementalGrowth in the number of Wikipedia articles over time, items which were once deemed to be insufficiently #notable to have articles may eventually prove notable enough for an entry."

I favor basically the exact opposite: #Incrementalism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Increme... "Incrementalism is a method of working by adding to or subtracting from a project using many small incremental changes instead of a few (extensively planned) large jumps."

Incrementalism - Wikipedia

put another way,

Incrementalism is just Progressive Conservatism, making smaller and smaller changes to the Status Quo until you're back with an immoveable status quo, ie. Conservatism.

Incrementalism isn't Progressive.
It's just Conservatism with bad short term memory.

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Trade #Liberal #Capitalism #Lobbying #Incrementalism #TrumpTariffs #buyCanadian

Incrementalism is often raised as a way to make changes that people can handle (ie. won't punish electorially).

But my own theory is that incrementalism forces people into a cycle of diminishing returns.

The increment fixes less than the whole issue… and every increment after that addresses less of the issue than the last, until you effectively aren't making any noticeable changes at all, which leads the electorate to cynicism.

The only way to halt that cycle and regain credibility is to make a big change.

Which begs the question: Why didn't we just do the big change in the first place?

This might have to do with provincial trade barriers in Canada, or it might not, but the fact these barriers have been an "issue" for decades, and now all of a sudden they can "crumble" in less than 30 days, makes me think… incrementalism sucks.

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Trade #Liberal #Capitalism #Lobbying #Incrementalism #TrumpTariffs #buyCanadian

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/interprovincial-trade-barriers-rules-regulations-standards-1.7451128

#Incrementalism has shown us repeatedly it's a futile game. What good are victories more than counterbalanced by our failures? We wasted so much time, and our irresolution has enabled #genocide, #ecocide, the looting of the Global South, the desacrilisation of relationships with each other and the rest of life on our planet, and countless other destructions and perversions. What change is there but immediate, wholesale #systemchange ? The #revolution must happen now.
https://bsky.app/profile/leabonheim.bsky.social/post/3lgqneu5eec2w

And of course this is a direct confrontation to the #incrementalism approach preached by my friends at #strongtowns and #cnu https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/9/5/incrementalism

A quotation from Rowland, Helen:

«
“Just once more” is the Devil’s best argument.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rowland-helen/70016/

#quote #quotes #quotation #evil #incrementalism #justification #seduction #sin #temptation

But is #incrementalism actually this? It certainly is presented in a way in the #StrongTowns book in a way that is consistent with this. Josh (#RadicalPlanning) criticizes it as preserving the status quo and claims that it has no guiding vision. I find the lacking of proof though. Why can you not have a guiding vision and try to get there in small steps?

Marohn is a proponent of #incrementalism and the case he makes appeals to me as a software engineer. In sofware engineering, doing small steps and iterating often to ensure you are on the right track and validate your assumptions, is a solid and proven strategy. Not knowing what theories are behind incrementalism in planning, I liked this at first glance.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
〝The rise of the internet means publishers have largely lost control of distribution. The rise of platforms means they have largely lost control of discovery. The rise of so-called Web 2.0 began to challenge their control of content, and generative AI will supercharge that challenge. 〞
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-news-ecosystem-might-look-age-generative-ai

#media #journalism #AI #genAI #incrementalism #strategy

So the plastic tabs on our bread wrappers are now cardboard but the bags alas are still plastic. Is this what they cal #incrementalism ?

Blue-no-matter-who #incrementalism is also TESCREAL.

Specifically: rationalism, effective altruism and longtermism.

LessWrong-style acquiescence in the face of political complexity, at once act-utilitarianist and anti-localist, deprioritizing present harms in deference to existential pivotalism.