Yeah, I think there’s a fine difference here. Consensus sounds like people have to sign their name on it, everybody agrees, like a joint protocol or something. But bridging is more about consent, not consensus. It’s about, “Okay, we can live with it,” right? It’s not that I will sign my name on it, but I won’t sign my name against it. Finding that overlap is much easier than finding consensus where everybody has to agree. So in the sense of the ‘maybes’ (MIMBYs), it’s more like finding where the Overton window looks like this, rather than “we all agree to do precisely this.” Which is why I say it’s in the first diamond—just the shared values—instead of the second diamond, which is a specific implementation.

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