_ bootstrapping_ means use what you build to boost your own effectiveness – it’s the expectation that anyone working on an important aspect of boosting our Collective IQ capability will seriously push the envelope through their own experimental usage of their work product(s) (see About Bootstrapping). This feeding the gains in Collective IQ advancement back into the business of improving Collective IQ is the essence of bootstrapping — not only innovating the way we work together to solve important problems, but innovating how we innovate the way we work together to solve important problems — i.e. improving how we improve, getting better at getting better.