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From: Flancian <0@flancia.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:34:26 +0100
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 - [[twitter]] twitter.com/jambarree
 - [[go]] bakejam.com
 - Used to work at [[tableau]], left [[Jun 2020]]: https://twitter.com/jambarree/status/1277446443884638208.
+- [[interest]]s
+  - [[intentional society]]
+  - [[complex system]]s
+  - [[cultural shift]]s
+  - [[kegan]]
+  - [[activism]]
+- Topics I'd like to bring up:
+  - Agora
+  - Agora at the workplace
+  - Distributed activism
+  - Privilege
+  - Companies as a mirror society
 
 ## 2020-11-27
 
-Notes from our meeting.
+- [[software developer]] in his first career.
+  - Hello from the future!
+  - Financial independence.
+- [[awakening]] came through [[career]] in a while. Joined a startup ([[tableau]]).
+  - 5-6y of hard coding.
+  - Some management.
+  - Company kept growing: from 50 people to several thousands.
+  - The most fascinating topic in time became scaling itself. Organizational complexities. 
+    - Organizations as systems.
+    - How do systems grow, scale or break?
+    - This pulled him out of conventional thinking and into more abstract/outside perspectives.
+    - Complex systems.
+  - Ended up doing [[branch management]], [[release cycle]]s.
+  - With time took on more problems having to do with human scaling more than software systems.
+    - [[psychological safety]]
+    - [[leadership]]
+    - [[cultural shift]] towards quality
+      - a break from startup culture
+  - [[interference]] with executives and company 
+    - ran into trouble with the cultural shift
+    - ran into the limit of personal skills too
+- pushed through [[existential crisis]]
+  - [[secular buddhism]]
+  - [[post-conventional self-identity]], [[kegan stage]]s, [[deconstruction]]
+  - tried [[employee]] [[activism]], intending to have it be self-organizing, not leading it.
+    - extended his time at the company
+    - cared for the people
+    - inspired by [[google walkout]]
+    - main objective: raising [[awareness]], helps others become aware
+  - movement wounded by [[pandemic]] 
+
+## 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.
+
+
 
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 # 2020-11-27
 
-- [ ] review [[2020-11-26]]
-- [ ] meet with [[james baker]].
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+- [x] review [[2020-11-26]]
+- [ ] meet with [[james baker]].
+- [ ] comprarle un abanico a mamá. [[todo]]
+
+[//begin]: # "Autogenerated link references for markdown compatibility"
+[2020-11-26]: 2020-11-26 "2020-11-26"
+[james-baker]: ../james-baker "James Baker"
+[todo]: ../todo "Todo"
+[//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"
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