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Do you have some good pointers for fascia-based expllanations?

3ChristianKl
Fascia can be tense or looser. When it's more tense it can press on nerves. When the fascia releases and does not press on the nerves anymore, pain can disappear. I do have training in Danis Bois's Fasciatherapy which informs my intuitions around fascia. Unfortunately, fascia is not that well-understood in medicine both when it comes to diagnostics and interventions. For completion, it's worth noting that wrist pain can also be caused by a tendon or nerve being moved to the wrong place. I personally had wrist issues from time to time. They were never strong enough to prevent me from typing. A huge part of solving them and making them largely nonsymptomatic was a manual process of pushing something that was either a nerve or a tendon into its right place again.  From what you wrote it doesn't sound like that was an issue in your case, but it might be for other readers who have issues with their wrists.

Good point — somatic exercises can change the way I use my wrists. Though, I'll note that the pain often notably changed in the course of the exercise. This could still be fascia-linked, but also strengthens my sense that the feedback loop as I described above captures some core dynamic.

Two incredible posts of yours — thank you also for sharing. I have been using PP here in a more loose ('poetic') sense. From a quick look at your post, it does seem like we mostly agree about the underlying phenomena. I look forward to reading in more detail your PP gripes.

Yeah — the book "The Way Out" is a popsci general introduction that contains the outline of the exercises enough to try it yourself. Happy also to talk more if that'd be helpful.

You may find inspiration in papers like Modular Politics, which spawned Metagov, an online research community I'm a part of attempting to experiment with and understand digital governance. Although their focus is largely online platforms, there are a number of scholars adjacent to the community who study non-digital governance. (Related is the excellent 80,000 hours interview with Audrey Tang where she talks about Taiwan's governance experiments with Polis.)

The best older/non-digital literature I know of is from Elinor Ostrom — Governing the Commons is par... (read more)

1Ruslan Prakapchuk
There is also some attempt to generalise and further develop Ostrom's ideas: https://www.prosocial.world
1Stuart Buck
Ostrom is great, obviously. In fact, I forgot how thoroughly I summarized a good bit of that literature in a 2001 piece: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=268744