This is the point where many books would tell you what you can do in your own life to change.
But this book isn't going to do precisely that,
because it isn't about you.
You are not an ecology.
You are not a community.
So, the answer to what you can do is this: Connect.
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Not "Go make something" but rather "Go make something with someone else."
This makes the break clear with narcissistic 'self-improvement' mantras. If anything, we should make this section even more pointed about this.
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Two things:
1) Your inputs are outputs from somewhere else in the ecology, and your outputs become inputs somewhere else in the ecology. Everything is connected.
2) (letting this one sit until the right answer returns for certain....)
This is the capstone of the entire book. On the drive back from Pennsylvania, the goal of the book, once the person puts it down, is to inspire the reader to find the outputs (the things people are making that you need) and the inputs (the things YOU can make that other people need).
Just by being alive, we produce things. The trick is, we haven't been trained to think of ourselves in that sense or in the sense of how what we produce might be of value to someone else.
A simple example: you put the CD in your laptop. If the track information doesn't come up in iTunes, you put them in yourself. Or your church needs server space.
