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+- wiki/entities/marshall-rosenberg.md
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+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)
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