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When community organizers struggle to distill their success into transferable wisdom

Our neighborhood organizing group accomplished something really significant last year and people keep asking us to share our 'model,' but when we try to write it down we realize we can't actually explain what made it work without talking about the specific people and relationships that aren't replicable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to share what you've learned bumps against the truth that some knowledge is inseparable from the particular people and moment that created it.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined life as legacy?”

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