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 "name":"Patrick Atwater",
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  {"id":"1206419440553693185","timestamp":"1576467783","retweet_count":"2","favorite_count":"8","in_reply_to_status_id":"null","in_reply_to_user_id":"null","in_reply_to_screen_name":"null","text":"Musings on missions and purpose. A ������ https://t.co/iW7nthP17z"},
  {"id":"1206422559740190720","timestamp":"1576468527","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"3","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206419440553693185","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"Cui bono: I spent the last ~10 years exploring and experimenting with various ways to improve how government operates, particularly in California and using modern digital tools\n\nIn no particular order, a few thoughts"},
  {"id":"1206422841614204929","timestamp":"1576468594","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"4","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206422559740190720","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"1 The world would be a better place if every American spent a year of service: https://t.co/lpIOKbCPRh"},
  {"id":"1206423624086777856","timestamp":"1576468780","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"2","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206422841614204929","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"2 Multiple benefits to such a service year. Young adults would get real world experience, broaden their horizons, become more a adaptable... many of the classic benefits claimed of a fancy liberal arts degree at much less cost with also lots of added benefit"},
  {"id":"1206424470065311746","timestamp":"1576468982","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"5","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206423624086777856","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"3 Aside... for a country that put a man on the moon and led the world in engineering marvels... \n\nReally sad that the biggest public works of my generation is probably rebuilding Afganistan (not a sterling success)"},
  {"id":"1206424704942166016","timestamp":"1576469038","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"2","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206424470065311746","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"4 See here for a nice imaginative vision of what might be with a Public Technology Corps in the vein of new deal era public works programs from my friend and fellow Argonaut @vr00n https://t.co/tgN83GvE0G"},
  {"id":"1206430015472029697","timestamp":"1576470304","retweet_count":"1","favorite_count":"4","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206424704942166016","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 5 Switching gears a bit... that sense of civic purpose is a more modern framing for the ancient connection between human spirituality and collective action."},
  {"id":"1206430703430160386","timestamp":"1576470468","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"3","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206430015472029697","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 6 Next time you're at a big public building check out the quotes and iconography. Says so much about the values of the era. What is left unsaid often ring louder"},
  {"id":"1206431512150732800","timestamp":"1576470661","retweet_count":"1","favorite_count":"6","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206430703430160386","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 7 The missions that matter don't need fancy wordsmithed phrases. Their impact is obvious. See the Roman aqueduct of Segovia which last I checked was still a supplemental supply source to the city today https://t.co/xy3B7sTwcI"},
  {"id":"1206431959938764800","timestamp":"1576470768","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"1","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206431512150732800","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 8 Or see here for difference between North / South Korea (a favorite for big political economy debates) https://t.co/riROdyUIRD"},
  {"id":"1206434044767920128","timestamp":"1576471265","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"2","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206431959938764800","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 9 Lots of lessons here for collective action at smaller scales than a country or city (say a company or team). To use a physics analogy, there are some things that require setting a direction (trite but true). See the climbing \"triangle of death\" on the right https://t.co/TVd31y4GbT"},
  {"id":"1206436179245068289","timestamp":"1576471774","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"1","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206434044767920128","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 10 As an aside I generally feel we've tried to cross brace our  politics / government in America in every direction which has made things incredibly brittle and difficult to change."},
  {"id":"1206436594393083904","timestamp":"1576471873","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"0","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206436179245068289","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 11 To use another climbing metaphor it's much much safer to enable and encourage little mission failures to safe anchor points https://t.co/LNOifrdJu4"},
  {"id":"1206437446994391041","timestamp":"1576472076","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"0","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206436594393083904","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 12 The outdoors are also highlight the enduringly instinctive hierarchical nature of any sort of collective endeavor. Flat organizations are like flat earthers."},
  {"id":"1206438830867238917","timestamp":"1576472406","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"0","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206437446994391041","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 13 There is much that we can learn from animals in this regard. \n\nhttps://t.co/rSQShHixXx"},
  {"id":"1206439290466496512","timestamp":"1576472516","retweet_count":"1","favorite_count":"2","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206438830867238917","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 14 Good leaders in adaptive organizations don't need to act the lion-like alpha so much as are comfortable playing any role as needed to get the job done"},
  {"id":"1206757372506435584","timestamp":"1576548352","retweet_count":"0","favorite_count":"0","in_reply_to_status_id":"1206439290466496512","in_reply_to_user_id":"43480094","in_reply_to_screen_name":"patwater","text":"@vr00n 15 “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”\n\nIf vision is where you're trying to go, missionary purpose is a zeal to get there whatever the consequences"}
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