A special issue: Here's a guest issue by @tomcritchlow offering a second opinion on sparring-based consulting. Sparring as Tenure:https://artofgig.substack.com/p/sparring-as-tenure …
The supervisory thing is interesting... it's one of the things we're doing with @yak_collective ... I haven't managed a team in a decade, but am doing so now... 20+ people contributing to one project. Feels like atrophied muscles being worked again.
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Not sure how strong my appetite for managing teams is anymore, but maybe it will come back and I'll re-acquire a taste for it. But only if there's a way to do it that preserves indie-ness all around and doesn't just reproduce the team practices of paycheck firms
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Thing is, you’re not managing so much as bringing along a manager on a speculative act of co-creation. Something equivalent happens w exec/s more tied to sparring rituals. It’s practically woo-woo in corp terms and somewhat inverts hierarchy in sussing out better ways of doing.
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here, Tom and Venkatesh!
I’d like to chip in two cents on my view at the ~20 years indie mark, where niche forms of doing (or supervisory doing) stage an important comeback, and are the proving grounds, and prompt!, to a kind of sparring...
That is not always where I live, to be sure. But it’s the trend line on my best, most satisfying, and probably most lasting and appreciated work.