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Distributed Virtue

The BEACON Framework

Six steps from a person's problem to something other people can reuse.

By the end — You have a worked BEACON worksheet for a real community problem.

  1. Start with a person you could name, not a technology you want to use.

  2. Turn a confusing situation into a map you can point at.

  3. Aim at somebody becoming more capable, not at a task disappearing.

  4. Make the thing that works without you in the room.

  5. Design for the barrier you named, or you have built for people already inside.

  6. Name the decisions that stay with a person, before anything is running.

  7. The six answers together, the review loop, and what a strong answer looks like.