I mostly agree with swarriner, and I want to add that writing out more explicit strategies for making and maintaining friends is a public good.
The “case clinic” idea seems good. This sometimes naturally emerges among my friends, and trying to do it more would probably be net positive in my social circles.
And yeah, case clinics have given me a lot of value. If something like it is emerging naturally amoung your friends, then they sound like great friends!
If you do try to expressly instantiate a case clinic with the steps I’d be curious to hear how it goes. I’ve been surprised at the effect setting an explicit format can have on how it feels to be in a group. Something about creating common knowledge on where we’re all supposed to be directing our attention (and with what intention), can be really powerful. Thinking about it now I suppose this is how DnD works 😄
ha don’t worry it basically is 😄, it’s just that (for me at least) the notion I could put effort into making strong 1-1 connections with people and forming intimate small groups online wasn’t really something that occurred to me to do before I started reading about microsolidarity.
May also be worth noting that the microsolidarity framework is about a bunch of other stuff beyond just crews and case clinics, notably dynamics that come into play once you try to take a bunch of crews and form a larger group of ~150 or so people out of them.
I don’t understand how this isn’t just making friends and encouraging the formation of friend groups based on common interests.
I mostly agree with swarriner, and I want to add that writing out more explicit strategies for making and maintaining friends is a public good.
The “case clinic” idea seems good. This sometimes naturally emerges among my friends, and trying to do it more would probably be net positive in my social circles.
Thank you, I thought so too 😊
And yeah, case clinics have given me a lot of value. If something like it is emerging naturally amoung your friends, then they sound like great friends!
If you do try to expressly instantiate a case clinic with the steps I’d be curious to hear how it goes. I’ve been surprised at the effect setting an explicit format can have on how it feels to be in a group. Something about creating common knowledge on where we’re all supposed to be directing our attention (and with what intention), can be really powerful. Thinking about it now I suppose this is how DnD works 😄
ha don’t worry it basically is 😄, it’s just that (for me at least) the notion I could put effort into making strong 1-1 connections with people and forming intimate small groups online wasn’t really something that occurred to me to do before I started reading about microsolidarity.
May also be worth noting that the microsolidarity framework is about a bunch of other stuff beyond just crews and case clinics, notably dynamics that come into play once you try to take a bunch of crews and form a larger group of ~150 or so people out of them.