Banker thinking is dinosaur thinking.

Bankers are straight line, linear projection thinkers in a world of networks, smaller-scale chaos and larger-scale patterns. Long-, and even short-term, it doesn’t add up. This way of approaching things in a networked world is as out-of-date as dinosaurs. We need to create and test new ways of doing things that prove there are other viable options and approaches. That’s what the ProxThink sustainable proximities approach offers.

It’s not the bankers’ fault really. It’s the air we breathe. It’s the assumptions we hold. We need to prove other assumptions are more effective. We need to prove it to ourselves.

ProxSets are Arbitrary but Useful

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Most, if not all, ProxSets are somewhat arbitrary. But ProxSets are needed, to focus attention. Yet they also need to be flexible.

You need to use ProxSets to focus attention, but you need to allow them to change. It goes back to the Core Idea of ProxThink: “In a situation, change elements, relationships and the proximity to better relate to each other.” In this case, a ProxSet is an element in the proximity of your situation. 

Proxri Deal: As you find our relationship rewarding, proxri with the proximity in mind.

Tracking Where “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity” was Sent

Here are places I’ve sent the one paragraph announcement and press release called “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity.”

Newspapers

Washington Post
Boston Herald
Boston Globe
Los Angeles Times
Washington Times
Houston Chronicle
Dallas News
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Examiner
San Jose Mercury News
Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram
Baltimore Sun
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Denver Post
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Los Angeles Business Journal
San Fernando Valley Business Journal
San Diego Union Tribune
Seattle Times
Chicago Sun Times
Chicago Tribune
New Jersey Star Ledger
Philadelphia Inquirer
Oregonian
Associated Press
New York Times
Wall St. Journal
Los Angeles Downtown News

Magazines

Wired
The New Yorker
BusinessWeek
Newsweek
Time
Fast Company
Inc.

Blogs

Worldchanging
Renewable Energy World
Dot Earth
Green Inc.
ecogeek.org

Radio

npr - Living on Earth
npr - All Things Considered

Press Release: How to Create a Sustainable Proximity

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

How to Create a Sustainable Proximity

A short guide called “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity” offers a new approach. People can use it for an area, home, park, neighborhood, community, region, context, environment, business, group, organization, etc. If we create many sustainable proximities, they will start to overlap. People are free to use this guide. It is based on the ProxThink sustainable proximities approach. It allows people to relate to a proximity they care about in a new and more direct way. It leverages technology and networks in a different way by applying a new growth model. “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity” is available at the following link:
http://proxthink.com/blog/2009/12/24/how-to-create-a-sustainable-proximity/

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NOTE: Should you have any trouble with the link above, you can also get there by going to the ProxThink.com website (http://proxthink.com). Once there, you’ll see links to “How to Create a Sustainable Proximity” in the upper right, and also in the bottom center of the page.

Open Source and Sustainable Proximities

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Do you think the sustainable proximities approach outlined in How to Create a Sustainable Proximity would never work? That people can’t be trusted, or it needs an enforcement mechanism, or some other objection?

Well, the open source software development process is an example of the sustainable proximities approach in action. They don’t call it that of course.

The ways they track their progress are, in effect, ProxMonitors.

Places and ways they share information are RelatePoints.

The open source agreement itself, and their decisions to work within it, is a kind of Vadi Agreement.

Their contributions of time, energy, expertise and code are proxri.

In working (and playing) this way, they have created a sustainable proximity. The proximity is the ecosystem of the particular software and the people related to it.

Do you see it?

I’ll come up with some other examples.

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