1-7
8-14
15-21
22-28
29-35
36-42
43-49
50-56
57-63
64-70
71-77
78-84
85-91
92-98
99-105
offer. If the Giftee accepts the offer, than that action is recorded as a synergic help
exchangeand both profiles are updated. Both Giftor and Giftee can make comments
about the interaction then or at a later time if more appropriate. If the Giftee declines the
offer of help, the Giftor is notified so they can offer their help to some other member.
How do you registering the types of help.you might choose to give or like to receive?. It
would seem that almost any good or service could be exhanged in a synergic help
tensegrity. I would suggest three general classes of Gifts as a way of organizing the data
base. Also considerations of Local,Regionaland Globalcome into play.
— Expertise, Consultations, Counseling, and Advise — KNOWLEDGE.
as a gift. Physicians, Attorneys, Accountants, Engineers, Scientists, Teachers, etc., etc., etc..
Location may be less important with telephone and internet communication.
— Sevices, Projects, Labor (skilled and unskilled), Jobs and Tasks —
WORK.
a room on someone’s house or writting a custom software program, etc., etc., etc.. It could
be a million and one different forms of helping provided by humans in action. Location is
very important. Many services would only available locally.
— The term leveris borrowed from synergic science. It means any device
that provides the user with leverage. These are Tools, Appliances, Equipment,
Automobiles, Trucks, Tractors, Lawnmowers, House Furniture, Household Goods,
Furnishings, Materials, Supplies, etc., etc., etc. — THINGS.
away fully or only give the useof them for a specified
time. Location is very important for the gift of usinga tool or appliance, perhaps less
important if the item is given away fully. Shipping costs might make a difference, but you
no obligation to accept the offer. Synergic exchange is fully voluntary. The giftor makes
offers of help when and to whom he chooses. The giftee accepts offers of help when and
from whom they choose.
If I gift the useof a tool for a weekend, I may do so with the condition that it be returned in
clean and in good condition. Conditions of giving is both intelligent and synergic.
to describe the offered gift accurately. A television repairman might like the gift of an old
TV, that he will repair and use or gift to someone else.
on the number of gift offers accepted, it is of great importance to have a good relationship
with the giftee. That means your discriptions of an offered gift needs to be very accurate.
No one will be critized for gifting junk as long as they describe it accurately as junk. Those
seeking junk will be happy. Remember one man’s junk is another man’s treasure.
Your ranking on thehelp offer listsis determined in part by your ration of giving-
receiving. Everytime your offers of help are accepted your ration goes up. Those who
give the most to others will be the most honored members in the community of the Gift
Tensegrity. So you will want to give as much as you can. Likewise every time you accept
a gift offering from others your ratio goes down. So you will want to accept others gifts
carefully and only when you truly value them.
is yourcomment
mean. This the average score for comments made about you during help exchanges. Every
encounter will be rated. +10for it couldn’t have been any better to -10if couldn’t have
been any worse. To be successful in the gift tensegity you need to give and interact in a
positive way with other members. This means you want to accurately describe your
offered gifts and make sure those accepting your gifts get what they expect from your
descriptions. You also want to be courteous and friendly in your encounters.
want to repair that encounter as quickly as possible so that that exchange partner will
modify or withdraw their low comment.
to be willing to take it back at my expense if the giftee paid for shipping. Or pay for
disposal and give up my credit for the gift. Remember, every exchange effects ration of
giving-receiving for both the giftor and giftee.
Knowingis one of the most global of gifts. With the internet and modern communication
devices, I can help people all over the world.
will usually need to belocal, occasionally regional, and rarely global.
and especially use of leverswill usually belocal. However, it may make sense to
gift a major appliance or automobile regionally. And rarely, smaller lighter items might
be shipped globally especially if they are unusual one of a kind.
One major advantage of the Gift Tensegrityis that it resurrects Dead Wealth. Dead Wealth
is that wealth within the human community that is not being used to help self or others.
Dead Wealth is found in all three forms — Knowing, Action and Levers.
— Almost all of us have significant expertisein some areas. Some knowledgeof
how to solve problems that we have encountered in our lifes. However, in our present
world we trade the hours of our lives to others for just enough money to earn our livings.
Our employers don’t want our expertise and knowledge unless it applys to the limited
task they hired us to perform. Yet in the larger context of community our unwanted
expertise and knowledge could help others. The Gift Tensegrity gives us an outlet for
sharing that expertise and knowledge.
consultations, couseling, analysis and real time problem solving, or it may be available in
the form of knowing and levers such as reports, books, video or audio tapes, artwork,
photos, computer files, etc., etc., etc..
— We all have some hours in our lives that could be available to help others. The
Gift Tensegrity gives me an outlet for all of those other skills and abilities that I am not
currently trading to some employer for money. Some of us can do home and automobile
repair, handyman work, cleaning, cooking, sewing, child and elder care, teaching, etc.,
etc., etc..
combining their errands with our own when we are out running around. The Gift
Tensegrity allows you to quickly find out how you can turn those wasted hours into help
for others.
we have in boxes in our
garages, attics, and closets. Used tools, appliances, furniture, clothing, furnishings —
things we never use but are too good to throw away. Now they can be easily liberated by
simply describing them acturately and gifting them away. Or how about just gifting away
the use of some those great tools you only use one day a week or one day a month.
Because so much of our need for help is a need for local help. I see the need to establish
local Gift Tensegrities in neighborhoods. This is where you will get help with household
repair, automotive service, child and elder care, transportation, etc., etc., etc..
use of their home computer and DSL line to run a neighborhood Gift Tensegrity
Database. Then anyone in the neighborhood could use a computer with dialup
connection to the internet to connect to the local Gift Tensegrity and enter into synergic
help exchange.
servers which in turn would like to Global Servers. This would lead to a disseminated
system with high level of redundancy.
software.
The Gift Tensegrity is a synergic help exchange. And as INTERdependent form or life, we
members of that exchange will be synergic. Remember synergic relationships are those
that make me more productive, more effective, and more happy. When I need help, this is
where I will look first.
simple an alternative to the fair market. I will begin to meet some of my needs at the Gift
Tensegrity. As I begin gifting and finding that some of my needs are met this way. I will
have less need to sell the hours of my life for money to use in the fair market.
to 30 hours. This is how the transition will occur.
will enormously important to those individuals finding themselves out of work. When
there is no market for the hours of your life. There is still no shortage of people who need
your help. The Gift Tensegrity acts as an immediate outlet for those with help to Gift, but
no market for their help to Sell.
for losing their jobs. In this society, that is all of us.
TeamNets are groups of individual humans that form themselves into Teams for the
pupose of performing a larger and more complex task than they can perform as
individuals. These individuals co-Operate through a network based on synergic
relationships and synergic compensation mechanisms to accomplish those larger and
more complex tasks. Barry Carter has written extensively about this concept in his book
Infinite Wealth. And, I have developed a mechanism for organizing Synergic Production
Teams called the Organizational Tensegritywhich is available elsewhere.
They may be able to attract the help they need thought the free synergic gift exchange, or
they can attract help, by inviting others to join their team for Synergic Revenue Shares if
the project produces revenue (How this is done is explained in the Organzational
Tensegrity.)
Gift Tensegritywill be radically different from both the
adversary help exchange — the Coercion Tensegrityand the neutral help exchange — the
Product Tensegrity.
take action to meet them.
Continuous-Pull
Passive
—
—
Discontinuous-Push
Active
with out help from others. They need the occasional actionsof others to meet their
continuous needs. This leads to the emergence of receivers of helpwhich are
continuously needing help and givers of helpare only occasionally acting to give that
help. For human beings, life and survival then is all about thecontinuing pullof our
needsand the discontinuous pushof the actionstaken to meet those needs. Some of the
actions are our own, but most of the actions are the giftsof others.
Continuous-Pull
Passive
Receivers of Help
—
—
—
Discontinuous-Push
Active
Givers of Help
of self and other. Sometimesself is a giver of help.
Sometimes self is a receiver of help. Sometimes otheris a giver of help. Sometimes other
is a receiver of help.
change in the new synergic help tensegrity. Active control shifts away from the predators
and buyers(receivers of help) to active control by the giftors(givers of help). Now let us
compare the three tensegrities with thenatural pattern,
We see that within the Coercion TensegrityActions andNeedshave switched places as
have thegivers of helpand receivers of help. ThePreyis coercedto give helpin the form
of theiractions to meet theneedsof the Predators. The predatorsare in control.
Prey
*Actions
Continuous-Pull
Passive
*Givers of Help
—
—
—
—
*Needs
Discontinuous-Push
Active
*Receivers of Help
Actions andNeedshave switched places as
have thegivers of helpand receivers of help. TheSellersis paidto give helpin the form
of theiractions to meet theneedsof the Buyers. The buyersare in control.
Seller
*Actions
Continuous-Pull
Passive
*givers of help
—
—
—
—
*Needs
Discontinuous-Push
Active
*receivers of help
has returned. The receivers of
helpare passive. They are continuously available to receive the gift of help. The givers of
helpare active. They discontinuouslygive help whenand to whom, they choose. The
Giftorsare trustedto give helpin the form or their actionsto meet the needsof the
Recipients. The giftorsare in control.
Giftee
Needs
Continuous-Pull
Passive
receivers of help
—
—
—
—
Actions
Discontinuous-Push
Active
givers of help