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--- confidence: high related: - wiki/practices/nonviolent-communication.md - wiki/entities/marshall-rosenberg.md sources: - raw/transcript.md title: NVC Video Prize type: project visibility: public --- # NVC Video Prize Jacob's $1,000 bounty. ## What it is > "Have $1,000 prize out for whoever makes the best 20-minute video on how to learn nonviolent communication." The thesis: - [[Nonviolent Communication]] is high-leverage and underdistributed - The barrier is not the protocol's complexity — it's that **the existing introduction materials don't optimize for the new-learner case** - A great 20-minute video would lower the activation cost dramatically - $1,000 is small relative to the population-scale benefit if a great one exists ## Why a contest Two reasons a contest beats just paying a known producer: 1. **Search vs. commission** — you don't know in advance who can make the great video. Surfacing through a contest is more reliable. 2. **Visibility** — the contest itself raises awareness of NVC among potential producers, all of whom learn enough to enter. ## Why 20 minutes Long enough to actually **transmit** the NVC moves. Short enough to be watched in one sitting. Most existing NVC explainers are either too short (TED talk-style, no hands-on transmission) or too long (workshop-recording, requires investment). ## The larger pattern This is one example of a class of moves: **small bounties on the production of high-leverage instructional content**. The same logic could apply to any of: - Learning [[Qigong (Arms-Up Position)|qigong]] arms-up well - Linear algebra intuition (Jacob mentions this as something he wishes he'd had earlier) - [[Stages of Adult Development|Adult-development]] introductions - The [[Wu Wei Disclosure]] talk - Iyengar yoga first-month curriculum If you have a small grant budget and a list of high-leverage underdistributed topics, **bounty-funding instructional content** has a high ROI structure. ## Related - [[Nonviolent Communication]] — what's being taught - [[Marshall Rosenberg]] — the originator - [[Healing Arts Grant]] — same pattern (small money, high leverage, distribution problem)