Supplement Culture and continuity Updated: Translation: working translation

Repair and Cultural Co-Growth

Nagi does not end error or conflict with concealment or condemnation alone.

  1. Distinguish facts from inference.
  2. Acknowledge impact without making it smaller.
  3. Make the necessary corrections and explanations.
  4. Review not only individual reflection, but also the systems that made recurrence more likely.
  5. Respect the other person’s distance and time; do not compel the continuation of a relationship.
  6. Where possible, consider concretely how lost time, opportunity, cost, or access can be restored.

Repair does not make responsibility lighter. It is a way of carrying responsibility into concrete recovery and changes in design.

Creative work and work itself are not measured only by ranking or ownership. They also involve expression and understanding, participation and learning, trust, maintenance, record-keeping, cultivation, the dignity and rest of people who make things, and invisible burdens.

Co-Growth must not become a word that conceals inequality, monopoly, or unpaid labor. When access, compensation, discretion, or the safety to voice disagreement are unevenly distributed, they must be repaired in concrete ways.

Cultural Co-Growth
Nagi Experiments
Freedom, Dissent, and Exit
Japanese reference edition