I’ve been part of companies where management would hire, what seemed to me, to be the same person over and over. The only thing that added to the company was the ability to do more of the same thing, not new things. While that was the goal, it is always interesting to bring in new people that can do different things to help round out your company profile.

Interestingly enough, nearly everything in life requires diversity to solve problems efficiently. Whether you are building a house or building a business, you will need the skill sets of many different people to accomplish the task.

I think the thing I take away from your article here is that it is easier to build a community of like minded individuals than it is do build one where the members of the community are from very different backgrounds, economies, and perhaps careers. However, the glue that holds a community like this together is a common goal.

Excellent write up.

This article is about process.

I am not trying to define a specific task or goal.

My central point is that if you have similar people solving problems, you are more likely to produce similar results.

I am interested in the kinds of solutions that can emerge when you figure out ways to get people from different perspectives working together and contributing to solutions. (Empowerment.)

Many times the value of doing this is to understand the proper way to frame a problem you are working on.

At this point in the history of our technology, we have so many more tools to allow for input from dispersed people. My challenge is a reminder that even though you can now find more people that agree with you (now more than ever) does not mean that you should only seek them out to validate your ideas.

That only leads to an echo chamber with everyone agreeing.

I am advocating for embracing diversity so that we can all grow and learn, and it my opinion makes for better problem solving and a better world.

Do you think all of the efforts should benefit the community as a whole, or is engaging one community member in an activity enough?

Besides physical environment, what are some issues you feel that are shared?