Someone said to give is to get...

Could not be more true. The essence of it that is. I like to recognize it as "to give is to grow". It's hard thinking like this, and even more hard doing it, implementing it, can I add that it's hellish hard creating a startup building an app based on this?! I will also add that we're doing it without external funding. I can also say, based on personal experience, that it's like doing one of the hardest triathlon races on the surface of this planet. Let's say it's an endurance effort...

But this is exactly what we decided on, we the founders said early on; we promised ourselves and the result to always ask "what's best for eY"? or "What's best for someone else"? By forcing this thinking into everything we have done, in contradiction to the often "heard advice", we have not focused on producing our Most Valuable Product to get to market as quickly as we could. By decisions like this, we are serving the greater needs of everything eY can become. Instead, we have asked questions, asked again, and again. It's one thing developing in an agile environment, but that does not mean that you produce the actual product from day one, the looped processes that you go through start with "simple" questions like why, and that my fellow thinker you will repeat for weeks and weeks to come.

Fortunately, we've now passed that phase, we have the products frontend and the experience we wanna offer. And we're now planning on how to build and finalize our backend. In this process, the mindset "of giving" has come and shown to be one of our most precious assets. Why? Well, it's one thing designing a backend based on our own business needs, another based on other organizations needs. So what are we doing? We're of course serving our partners, AKA NGOs, and other organizations that based on many reasons don't yet have developed their own enablement platform, with a custom-tailored backend.

We're not just providing them with a free to use, tool, app, and platform where they can pre-load and run their programs for there community. We're also able to support their own research, at a fraction of the actual cost - all enabled on our synchronous business models. The feeling of this is divine! I LOVE working at eY!

Another example of how giving is the number one resource for us developing eY is when we now are designing how our automated enablement Q&A programs and how to orchestrate them. When can we serve our users and with what, and how? Even here we're looking deep into the glass of systems thinking, and how to best facilitate different and known methods and concepts out there. Can't tell you more at this point due to that it's not yet settled, nor is it official.

What I can tell is that based on our mission who's to focus on whatever enables our users to reach empowerment. (Big words we know, but aiming for less just feels so dull). When it comes to systems thinking it's all about aligning our thinking and beliefs with reality. We're going through life based on what we think is the reality, but it's often not true, what we actually think is true. Here's where we can provide and serve our users with smartly crafted questions and answers that will spur on the conversations and your thinking; Fueling your brain with what you need to start asking better questions. The known results of being able to ask better questions is of course better answers. The aligning of you and your beliefs and what's real is now happening. I would say fundamental in nurturing and growing empowerment.

To give is to grow! Don't get stuck in your siloed models, when you find it hard to get good answers, go give, and I promise you, it will grow you!