π Node [[james baker]]
β³ π Resource @flancian/james baker
James Baker
Collaboration opportunities
- Group building + stoas
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Shared index of potentially related projects and interested people
- Flancia is evocative of an Italian place :)
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[[software developer]] in his first career.
- Hello from the future!
- Financial independence.
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[[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.
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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.
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With time took on more problems having to do with human scaling more than software systems.
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[[interference]] with executives and company
- ran into trouble with the cultural shift
- ran into the limit of personal skills too
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pushed through [[existential crisis]]
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On our respective approaches:
- Difference in orientation: [[place]] vs [[people]].
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Key levers/key to unlock futures:
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[[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.
Q&A
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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.
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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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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.
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"Who wants to join"
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Note taking?
- A bit, not too much
- About the current [[Agora]]
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Funding/revenue models
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Companies on the side
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What’s the "edge"?
- Could be agility/nimbleness
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[[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.
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