I've been doing things that don't scale for at least a decade. When I started my nonprofit in Mumbai in 2012, people told me what I was doing was too small. "You're ONLY changing the lives of 100 children at a time"
The nonprofit still runs (a great local team runs it). We've done more in 12 years than anyone who told us we had no impact.
https://stevenscrawls.com/care-doesnt-scale/
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scare = SCALE
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The only validation I need is that whenever I visit parts of Mumbai, there are kids who know that 'singapore didi' will find a way to help them pay for school. 2800 kids now, but I stopped counting. Scaling prematurely and seeing the macro picture works for some people / orgs but I feel it misses out on the individuals in question. I know the stories of the people the org has helped. I know their families. That matters to me.
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i'm still salty about how when i started doing that work i met someone who told me i should give out micro-loans and take back the money i found to fund kids' education, from the kids, after they grow up
anyway, whoever they are i hope they're suffering the same fate as lambda school
what a grotesque way of thinking
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@skinnylatte Impacting even one person in a positive long-lasting manner is already big, and 2800 is massive ππ
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@skinnylatte Years ago, when I was a camp counselor for one summer in the US, they gave us a plaque with a group photo and a variation on this quote;
βOne hundred years from now
It won't matter
What kind of car I drove
What kind of house I lived in
How much money I had in the bank
Nor what my cloths looked like
BUT
The world may be a little better
Because, I was important
In the life of a child.β
β Forest Witcraft
And that remains very true, however cheesy some people may think it is π
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@sindarina i love it!
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@skinnylatte @sindarina I volunteer as a software translator for an underrepresented language that has 50k-60k speakers.
The first question everybody asks me: But how many people are actually using this?
Wrong question.
The important question is: what does it mean to those who do use it?
A lot.
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@skinnylatte sustainable growth! Very nice actually!
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@skinnylatte TIL you have an intimate connection to my city in the best possible way.
Ty for doing it.
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@skinnylatte the kind of "scaling" i-for-one would prefer anyway, is a decentralized kind: more organizations with similar aims popping up in more places, to do similar work; each adjusted to the local conditions.
big extractive business is fit for the purpose of extracting money (screwing over lots of people in the process), but other wise it kind of sucks
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@skinnylatte It'd like any business or nonprofit. You don't have to be The Next Big Thing to be something useful to your niche, and grow slowly. It's why VC startups are such a plague. They're going to always demand exponential growth and if you won't don't, do it, they'll replace you with someone else who does.
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@skinnylatte 100 children is an entire school in some villages round here, and my high school (in a suburb of a large town in SE England) only had about 1000 students when I was there..
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@skinnylatte I was told by an influential member of the Australian tech startup scene, when I said I was going to become an IT teacher "but if you really want to make a difference, you should create an edtech startup and change the lives of so many more students than you'll ever be able to as a teacher". I only teach 100 students a year, but I love that I get to know all of them.
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@mstheasaurus yay
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@skinnylatte "Scaling" is just the standard capitalist wet-dream of "infinite Growth". So good on you.
It sounds llike what you are doing could be replicated with consideration to a different situation. And it all makes a difference to 100 people. That is really important to those 100.
Rock on!
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@skinnylatte And yet the care does scale: What we know about intergenerational trauma is it requires this level of care to correct, but the intervention scales down the generations.
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