How might I share?

Published 4 months ago

I wrote Social Enterprise of One to contribute some precise language to an industry that, like many others, suffers from buzzwords. I love what I found in that set of constraints—it's just so irresistibly fun to niche down and define things—but I recognize the downside.

The downside of niche-ing down and defining things is that you create jargon, which fosters virtue signaling and gatekeeping.

"Buzzwords", "jargon", "virtue signaling", "gatekeeping". They all have connotations. Language barriers thrive on connation.

Today, I felt like I wanted a simple-language version of Social Enterprise of One. What I came up with was "How might I share?"

Money, time, access, privilege, knowledge, skills, networks, platforms, whatever. How might I share?