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Summary
part 1 of a 2 part podcast
Paul is with Julia and Eliot talking about bootcamp culture
Paul talks of an article written about another community in which it says coming to their community causes divorce. This was due to couples arriving but one of them was keener than the other.
Paul states that bootcamp is a shitty school where people do regular homesteader things. Paul wants to take the couples who are on the point of breaking up and turn them into the best version of themselves so hopefully they don't divorce. Bootcamp is there to acclimatize people and expects you to work 8 hours a day but to begin with you get to rest whenever you need to. There's no discipline or whip-cracking, you work at your own pace.
Paul relates the story of Andy who bought land with some houses on it. He reached out to the permaculture community and invited people to come form a community. The first group expected Andy to do everything so he ended up kicking them all out, having decided they were a bad batch. The next batch got busted by the Feds due to an unfortunate choice of crops. For the third attempt he charged more rent and hired a guy to do permaculture stuff, and it worked better. People investing more in it have more motivation.
Eliot suggests that you need to distrust people who are seeking to live in a community. It works better if people come to help out and then decide they like it and want to be there more, then the community forms spontaneously. On their property they have two houses. Elliot relates their success with the two sets of people who have been tenants there but it was challenging finding good people. Julia comments that if you charge below-market rent you get more trouble, which was also Andy's problem. This is the same problem many OTISes have and is what SKIP is all about.
Eliot ends this part by talking about explicit and tacit knowledge. Explicit knowledge is what can be written in a book. Tacit knowledge is what you gain from experience such as at bootcamp.
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