Extraction
Take value while pushing cost, risk, or dependency onto others.
01 / Values
Maximum Enablement Value means maximising the enablement of value creation.
Value is not only what you capture. It is the capacity you help create: for yourself, for other people, and for the wider system. A useful setpoint preserves agency while making worthwhile contribution easier.
Four ways value can move
Value capture
Retain a fair share of value already created so contribution can continue.
Enablement
Increase another actor’s capacity to create, choose, contribute, or adapt.
Coagency
Coordinate so each participant’s agency strengthens the agency of the others.
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Value Setpoint
Copy this before choosing metrics, tools, or tactics. It keeps the desired good and its boundaries visible.
- Beneficiary
- Who should be better able to choose and act?
- Valued change
- What observable change would matter to them?
- Contribution
- What can you add that enables that change?
- Agency gain
- What new capacity, choice, or independence should result?
- Ecosystem effect
- Who else benefits or bears cost if this succeeds?
- Proof
- What evidence would show real value reached the beneficiary?
- Stop condition
- What harm, dependency, or failed signal makes you stop?
Proof condition
The beneficiary gains useful capacity, the contribution is visible, and the wider system is no worse off.
Failure condition
The activity captures reward while exporting harm, creating dependency, or reducing another person’s agency.
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Apply it through a Journey
Use the same system whether you are creating a new vessel or changing one that already exists.
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