Now that I’ve laid out some basic principles & assumptions, it’s time for my first extremely rough draft of a model for thinking about the economy to create a better world. With the principles & assumptions, I’ve been thinking about them for quite a while. This model? This is my first time — the “Stumbling Towards” of my blog’s subtitle.
A quick overview of where we’re headed in the next few weeks.
- What Are Our Values? What Trade-Offs Are We Willing to Make?
- Are These Choices We’ve Got to Choose Together? (Principle #2)
- Caveat: We Can’t Control the Economy (Principle #1)
- Chocolate Cake Diets Are a Bad Idea (New Principle, #5)
- Push the Economy Towards Our Values (Stack the Deck , Principle #3)
- Understand the Actors & their Ecosystem (Assumptions #1, #2, #3)
- Create a Strategy Map
- Use 3 Strategies for Change
- Make It Visible
- Make It Easy
- Make It Worth Doing (Carrots & Sticks)
- Make It Sustainable (includes Checks and Balances, Principle #4)
- Rinse, Repeat (feedback loops, see also Principle #1)
Since the basics of the first part — figuring out our values — are pretty straightforward, I’m going to start by just briefly discussing them. After I’ve gone through the second part, I’ll round back to some of the nuances of the first.
I’ve never tried to think out loud online, so this is a little nerve-racking for me. So, one last caveat. Obviously, this isn’t the model I’m going to end up with. But the only way to get there is by laying out some model, warts and all, then working on it.
Up next: taking this model out for spin using the issue of work-life balance.
