Great conversation I had with last week about microsolidarity & fluid teams, asking him more about Enspiral since it seems really similar to some of what I'm envisioning with my ideas of a distributed self-energizing meta-team.
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We talk a lot about how to build trust, manage power dynamics, shape membranes, etc.
I like their multi-membrane form, with a core of ~30 you can only join if supermajority approves, who each have individual autonomy to invite ppl to join larger ~200.
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15a/ Membranes. Monists go on about how everything is one, which is true in a sense but also have you noticed that some things are inside and some things are outside? The role of skin, or the walls of a house, or a windshield on a car, is it keeps inside in & outside out.
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One thing I was struck by was him saying that Enspiral neither has agency nor wants anything!
So it's neither necessary nor possible to get the whole group to agree on a direction.
Instead, you go do a thing and invite people into it.
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I think this is a huge and necessarily about-face from the image of a corporation as almost being a person, with needs, desires, and agency.
At the same time, superorganism metaphors also appeal to me deeply. Maybe teams have agency & wants, but collectives don't? Hmm hmm hmm.
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Stoked to hear that since put out his thinking on microsolidarity.cc he's had >30 communities reach out saying "you put a name to what we're doing!"
Name also enables mutual recognition, though we don't yet know how these entities will relate to each other.
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I'm digging the upward spiral of how some of these conversations are moving into the public sphere. When I reached out to to chat, he said:
> Maybe it would be interesting to record and share? I like that QC is pushing this out in the open
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maybe the next phase of the twitter game is we start businesses together
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the plot thickens 🤩