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We Win When Everyone Wins

2009-10-28 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · reflection essay

Responding to Dan Brown's video on tribes, Hank argues Nerdfighteria is an advanced 'level four' tribe whose achievements depend on what it thinks it can do, and asks Nerdfighters to donate cameras for his friend Anne's digital-journalism students in the Congo.

What is said

00:00:00 — Nerdfighters as a level-four tribe; watch Dan Brown's video; summary of the first three tribe levels

  • ★★★ Hank tells John that Nerdfighters are a tribe, a very advanced one: on average probably about a level-four tribe. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to spend 10 minutes watching Dan Brown's new video, linked in the video. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Summarizing Dan Brown's video: we all belong to tribes, and individuals operate on levels: 'life sucks', 'my life sucks', and 'I'm great and you're not' are the first three. — 00:00:22

00:00:51 — Nerdfighteria operates on 'we are great'; it matters what you think you can do; Renaissance Florence's 60,000 people vs vlogbrothers subscribers

  • ★★★ Hank thinks Nerdfighteria is level four: it operates on the assumption 'we are great', which lets it do awesome things like happy dance projects and yearly charity gatherings on YouTube. (hedged) — 00:00:51 · Nerdfighteria, Nerdfighter Happy Dance Project, Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Hank says that when you want to do cool stuff, what matters is not what you can do but what you think you can do. — 00:00:51
  • ★★★ Hank says Florence at the peak of the Renaissance had about 60,000 people, fewer than subscribe to vlogbrothers, yet produced Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Raphael and dozens more geniuses. — 00:00:51 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★★ Hank concludes that if 60,000 people watch this, a Michelangelo, a Da Vinci, a Machiavelli and a Raphael are watching right now; it's about what you think you can do and your community. (hedged) — 00:01:21 · Nerdfighteria

00:01:50 — Dan Brown's asks; Hank's project: donate cameras, camcorders, recorders and headphones for Anne's digital-journalism students in the DR Congo

  • ★★ Hank says Dan Brown asks viewers to suggest projects the community can pull off together, do a dance, and post it as a video response; Hank will do all three. — 00:01:50
  • ★★★ Hank's friend Anne is going to the Democratic Republic of Congo to teach digital journalism: giving Congolese students cameras and editing software to make videos about their lives. — 00:01:50
  • ★★★ Hank says this can shrink the world's boundaries: watching YouTube videos makes him care about people, but few Congolese make them, so it's harder to understand them complexly. — 00:01:50 · perspective-taking, YouTube
  • ★★★ Hank asks Nerdfighters to donate cameras above 6 megapixels, camcorders exporting via FireWire or USB, digital audio recorders and headphones better than earbuds; they already have computers. — 00:03:08 · Nerdfighteria, doobly-doo
  • ★★ Hank says that as soon as Anne's students produce videos, they'll be featured on nerdfighters.com and possibly on vlogbrothers. — 00:03:08 · nerdfighters.com, Vlogbrothers

00:03:37 — Thanks in advance, Hank's dance, sign-off

  • ★ Hank thanks viewers in advance for donating equipment and does his dance, as Dan Brown asked. (playful) — 00:03:37

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