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Hello,
I created ProxThink, although I hope many others will eventually add to it. I wanted a set of ideas to help me relate to as wide a range of situations as I could imagine. Perhaps even situations I couldn’t imagine. You can find out more about me, and more importantly about ProxThink, by joining. I hope ProxThink helps you and your proximities.
Thank you,
David Loughry

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 […]

Posted 23 January 2010 § ProxThink Basics ‡ Comments (0)

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 […]

Posted 18 January 2010 § Press § ProxThink Growth Model § Sustainability ‡ Comments (0)

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 […]

Posted 18 January 2010 § Civilization § Environment § Press § Sustainability ‡ Comments (0)

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 […]

Posted 29 December 2009 § ProxThink Growth Model § Sustainability ‡ Comments (0)

Good News, Bad News, Support Not Crush

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The Good News
I think I’ve invented a better way to organize civilization, or at least parts of it, in a networked world. It’s called the sustainable proximities approach. I’ve distilled it down to a short “how-to” guide, which you’ll find here:
How to Create a Sustainable Proximity
The Bad News
Doing so is ruining me financially. 
Support (Instead […]

Posted 29 December 2009 § Perspectives on ProxThink ‡ Comments (0)

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