Necessary boundaries
If you live in a cold country, you keep the doors closed and sealed to prevent the heat from going out and the cold from coming in.
If the door is left open, cold air comes in, and you can feel the difference.
But warm air also goes out, and it makes marginal difference to the outside air.
Why?
A house is a structure is a boundary.
Air molecules are like people.
If you have a structure, it maintains some form of coherence and equilibrium.
If you have no structure, or the structure is too big and too open (the siren call of libertarianism), then air molecules and people are so widely dispersed that there is less order.
What I am describing is tensegitry. A dance between too loose and too tight in boundary and structure.
Too loose, and we get chaos, rogue states, and “I can do whatever the hell I like” thinking.
Too tight and we stifle innovation, creativity and synergy.
Most startups give little attention to the boundary conditions and the structure that bring people together and keep them in coherence when the shit hits the fan.
But structure and boundaries are necessary conditions of life. A monkey cannot fly.
It is the design of the boundary that creates ecologies for synergy, where people are better for being together.
There is an inherent integrity in a boundary-crossing design.
In Syntropic World we call this the Trust Manifesto, and it is one of the central tools we teach in the Syntropic Foundations Masterclass. The next class commences next week. Here. https://syntropic.world/masterclass/
Photo March 24th 2025, Article written March 24th 2025
