diff --git a/james-baker.md b/james-baker.md index 2fa65ef20..57dbfa3a7 100644 --- a/james-baker.md +++ b/james-baker.md @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ - Distributed activism - Privilege - Companies as a mirror society +- Flancia is evocative of an Italian place ## 2020-11-27 @@ -49,12 +50,49 @@ - inspired by [[google walkout]] - main objective: raising [[awareness]], helps others become aware - movement wounded by [[pandemic]] +- On our respective approaches: + - Difference in orientation: [[place]] vs [[people]]. + - Key levers/key to unlock futures: + - [[james baker]] people, dynamics of small teams and small groups, low level social systems. + - Examples: church groups, social organizations, clubs. Organizations where people find belonging. + - This is the [[kernel]] of what James is trying to engineer. + - Practice oriented. + - [[flancian]] place oriented. People in a different system with different rules, but starting from a place or system or tooling or structure. + +## Collaboration opportunities + +- Group building + stoas +- Index of related projects and interested people + - [[michael ocean]] + - Others go here ## Q&A + - What's your opinion w.r.t. [[union]]s? - Complicated. Logical counterbalancing force: collective power vs corporate power. But it seems, as far as structures go, to be trapped in a local minimum. - Global optimum lies elsewhere; rather than counterbalancing, how could we dissolve the need for poles? - Perhaps we should have user, data unions. More cooperatives. +- What is your current focus? + - Opening up to allies and contributors within the next month or so. + - Interest group, might meet every N weeks. + - Co-creation, shared ownership. Looking for diverse perspectives. + - Meta and object level: let's design it and live it. + - Goal: an independent organization working on building pieces/rings of structure within 1y. + - "Who wants to join" + - There's an evolving community interested in the meta + - Sort of like [[game b]], but feels a bit different + - [[game b]] has the concept of parasitism (of [[game a]]) + - [[flancian]] also [[rationalism]], [[effective altruism]] +- Note taking? + - A bit, not too much + - About the current [[Agora]] +- Funding/revenue models + - Companies on the side + - What's the "edge"? + - Could be agility/nimbleness +- [[social network]]s as venues for intentional society + - [[james baker]] started in this direction some years ago, then moved interests to below-[[dunbar limit]] to bootstrap. + @@ -62,4 +100,9 @@ [person]: person "Person" [twitter]: twitter "Twitter" [go]: go "Go" +[place]: place "Place" +[james-baker]: james-baker "James Baker" +[flancian]: flancian "Flancian" +[effective-altruism]: effective-altruism "Effective Altruism" +[agora]: agora "Agora" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references" \ No newline at end of file