Sociocracy is a system of governance (Organization Model) using consent decision making and an organizational structure based on Cybernetic principles (a closed loop system with a FeedBack mechanism).[1] Modern sociocracy was developed by Gerard Endenburg as a method for use in governing his electrical engineering company,[2] and is applicable to any organization. It is currently in use by public, private, non-profit, and community organizations and associations. Sociocratic governance is taught in college and university courses in business, political science, history, and sociology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy
Phil Jones asks Why Is My Phone So Useless? Why do I still not have the kinds of software I use every day on my computer on my (mobile) phone? (more)
Gordon Brander on Bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is the process of getting better at getting better. Things that bootstrap exhibit exponential improvement. (more)
Sam Hart, Toby Shorin, Laura Lotti on Squad Wealth. Squads are both a product of—and a response to—contemporary social atomization. The trope of "getting a place upstate" signifies young city-dwellers' desire for new kinds of squad-based homesteading. HOMESQUADING is a modern day back-to-the-land movement (CoOp?) (more)
Group Discussion Live Chat, based on SMS/MMS Text Messaging or Instant Messaging. Can also add Audio/Video. (more)
Congruence is a psychological term associated with Jerry Weinberg and Virginia Satir. (more)
Toby Shorin: These days I've been slowly coming to reevaluate something I have held to be fundamental for a long time. For years I was obsessed with various forms of liberalism—social, emotional, industrial/employment. "Agency" is the word I've used to describe these forms.... I haven't fully abandoned this idea of agency, but I am coming to see it in more complex and challenging and useful ways... Agency of negative emotions --> agency derives from ability to hold a wide range of emotions preferencelessly... This new perspective I'm still developing also makes me see other topics dealing with freedoms and liberalism in different ways.
Toby is a designer and writer based in NYC. He leads strategy and research firm Other Internet. https://subpixel.space https://twitter.com/tobyshorin
Toby Shorin: Jobs To Be Done. Our most significant jobs define who we are (identity). Communing with others is one such job that is core to being human. Just as a bee’s job of pollination is central to what a bee is, humans have jobs of socializing. (more)
Peak experience is a term used to describe certain transpersonal and ecstatic states, particularly ones tinged with themes of euphoria, harmonization and interconnectedness. Participants characterize these experiences, and the revelations imparted therein, as possessing an ineffably mystical and spiritual (or overtly religious) quality or essence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_experience (more)
Concept associated with Abraham Maslow. (more)
We're Cody and Jody, the brother and sister creative team behind Kicks Condor. We work out of Facebook Labs, prototyping future personalities that can capture the public's imagination, much in the same way that Disney characters and comic book characters provided archetypes in the past. https://www.kickscondor.com/ https://twitter.com/kickscondor (more)
aka FiveFactor, OCEAN - Personality Test - In psychological trait theory, the Big Five personality traits, also known as the OCEAN model is a suggested taxonomy, or grouping, for personality traits,[1] developed from the 1980s onwards. When factor analysis (a statistical technique) is applied to personality survey data, it reveals semantic associations: some words used to describe aspects of personality are often applied to the same person. For example, someone described as conscientious is more likely to be described as "always prepared" rather than "messy". These associations suggest five broad dimensions used in common language to describe the human personality and psyche.[2][3] The theory identifies five factors: openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious); conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless); extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved); agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. challenging/callous); neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits (more)
Christopher Hitchens writes about the revolutionary potential of living "as if". (more)
... for a Reality Hacker... because Your Politics Are Boring (more)
*Montessori education is an educational approach developed by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. Montessori education is practiced in an estimated 20,000 schools worldwide, serving children from birth to eighteen years old.[1] (more)
Higher Ground is dedicated to mainstreaming and modernizing Montessori education.... Higher Ground operates schools for students from birth through adolescence, provides training to educators, and more. https://www.tohigherground.com/ (more)
Higher Ground Education Raises $30M Series D and Acquires Award-Winning FreshGrade Platform to Accelerate ‘Montessori Everywhere’ Mission. “With all the challenges this past year has brought, it has also created a window to do something dramatically different in education,” said Ray Girn, Founder and CEO of Higher Ground Education. “The Series D investment allows us to continue to be actively and aggressively advocating for Montessori pedagogy as the way of the future.” (more)
This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)
My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).
See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.
Beware the War On The Net!
Current:
- head of product for an early-stage boot-strapped company
- founder FluxGarden for Digital Garden hosting
- wrote Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook Getting Things Done And Other Systems ASIN:B00HHJA5JS
My Coding for fun.
Past:
- Director Product Managment, NCSA Sports
- CTO/Product Manager at a series of startups: MedScape, then Axiom Legal, then Living Independently, then DailyLit, then AEP...
- founded Family Financial Future, personal-financial-planning nagware for parents
- consulting
- founded Teamflux.com, a hosting service for wiki-based collaboration spaces.
- founded Wikilogs.com, a hosting service for WikiLog-s (wiki-based weblogs).
Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager
Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory
FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack
Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock
Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism
Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems
Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain