Implementing YESSS

Implementing YESSS
open=contests, let's aim for
"Thanks gained" for good work.

(Please note: this entry needs to be clarified and simplified.)

Let's say, as members of the same species, we might just be interested in (and perhaps even feel passionate about) learning how best to enhance our competence and increase our intelligence, species=wide, with respect to collaborative design (and re-design) of our emergent (and current) human activity systems.

Okay, so now what can we do? Your guess is as good as mine ... as long as we get to have some good fun learning in the process.

If you're at all interested in "open=contests" as a notion worth exploring (see "Approaching Open=Contests" for an introduction), here's my request for your critical and supportive feedback on this YESSS endeavor I've begun implementing:

As mentioned in "Approaching Open=Contests" and at the beginning of this piece, "Thanks gained" for good work is in many ways the crux of my approach to implementing YESSS open=contests. Welcoming and supporting contest participants to present their best "good work" into the public domain is, in quite a big way, what YESSS is all about.

One of the underlying support services YESSS provides via open=contests is to help enable contest participants gain thanks for their good work and to feel appreciation for other participants' efforts to further their own good work. Imagine a collaborative learning laboratory where folks generate prestige for one another through the public acknowledgments of appreciation they share for one another's work. In terms of YESSS open=contests, such public acknowledgments serve as a basis for openly measuring contestents' performance. Winners become collectively self-evident as they gain thanks from other contest participants whose own contest entries have been enriched by those to whom they're publicly conveying their actual thanks.

One of the most valuable kinds of feedback you can offer me is, from your own open imagination, to convey specific images of participants benefitting from such support services. Hopefully, you can entertain yourself envisioning YESSS open=contest participants having so much fun learning by building on and growing with one another's contest entries, that the whole notion of 'winning a contest' gets flipped upside-down or at least gets turned sideways.

Assuming your work is a gift and your contest entry is an embodiment of your work, the whole point of an open=contest is to help other contest participants excel in their efforts to put your good work to good use, to appreciate your gift through their good work through their own ever-increasingly-excellent contest entries.

This poem, "On Work" by Kahlil Gibran, inspires my efforts to implement YESSS: http://www.katsandogz.com/onwork.html

Since learning how best to enhance our competence and increase our intelligence, species=wide, with respect to collaborative design of our human activity systems is such a serious endeavor, we better plan on having some fun in the process.

And since the human activities that are most likely to enable the emergence of good, clear organizing principles exemplifying best-in-class know-how on evolutionary guidance memes and global crises management practices will need to encompass enormous complexity, we better keep our sensors receptive for elegant insights and clear signals on how to follow paths of least resistance through and beyond the unsustainable messes our species has been making.

YESSS open=contests are seriously fun means to provide such insights and signals.