• Don't take too much responsibility
  • Always verify: are you taking responsibility in proportion to how much power you have?
    • Be honest and avoid taking too much responsibility for grandiose visions outside of your immediate scope of power. Build capacity first. Dig where you stand.
    • Be honest and avoid taking no responsibility for things clearly in your control — the social environment, the way you make your colleagues feel, the type of collaboration + coordination you do with other groups.
• At least one undeniably wholesome leader
  • Wholesome is distinct from "good".
  • Trust your instinct on the difference between someone who merely has good intentions, and someone who is undeniably wholesome.
  • One wholesome leader can prevent the group from straying into bad equilibrium "for the greater good", or developing grandiose visions that aren't realistic, or being unnecessarily cruel due to an intellectual value of "honesty".
    • Wholesomeness is the type of good that balances out unsafe extremes
• Set clear boundary markers to determine when people should be removed from the community, and also when people should be excluded from entering in the first place. Make it clear that people can take your values too far.
  • French Impressionists: "The bad apple problem" — Degas was just a giant asshole and was responsible for the group falling apart, they should have kicked him.
• Respect for autonomy
  • Give people the power of exit
  • The group should explicitly help high openness people avoid unhealthy dependencies on the group