Social Architecture 2022-08-16

Topics

  • Group Charter
  • Miro Flow Board
  • Onboarding
    • Forms
    • Marketplaces
    • training
    • metrics

Group Charter

  • what is our declared purpose?
  • how do our tech and people interact with one another
  • how do our people interact with each other?
  • making things "usable" for people

Other Key Groups that need to function in parallel for this to work

  • Leadership / Navigation - vision / goal...
  • Wisdom / Advisory Council
    • responding to the emergent, being ahead of the wave
    • Discernment, Startegy, Navigation...
    • Jedi Council
  • Social Dimensions
    • is group psychology / energy / conditions that precipirate the ability to work together
  • Technical Architecture (and Build, i.e., Design-Build)
    • How things work together, don't fall apart, function
  • Social Architecture (and Build, i.e., Design-Build)
    • responding to the present
    • Inspired by the need to make tech usable, also UI, branding, comms, community, network - the core idea is "Usability", and specific design to make it more usable
    • the "user experience" for everyone involved
    • includes "Onboarding Architecture"
      • see Onboarding
    • making sure that the whole system is well designed for people - for an entire society of individuals using it - productive and inspirational to one another, and not destructive...
    • usability high
    • friction low
    • easy for people
    • problems solved, needs met
    • Pointers to low hanging fruit...
    • Must argue and advocate for this perspective, which is different from nearby perspectives (like just tech, or just people)...

Words

  • Actualization
  • Operationalization
  • Situational Leadership
  • Consensus (community mind?)
    • Good enough, move on (GEMO)
    • Good enough for now, safe enough to try
  • Participation
  • Enablement / Activation
  • Agency
  • Communication and Articulation of (Consensus, Decisions, Rationale, etc.)
  • Resolving Dissension
    • how do we allow for dissent and resolution
    • how do we know when things have gone from conflict to chaos, that needs to be handled
  • Appreciation / Acknowledgement

Different Roles / Personas

  • Leadership / Governance / Navigation
    • pattern of failure - end up with a cult of personality around a leader
      • Good - Steve Jobs galvanized tens of thousands of people and led them into a future
      • Bad - Oppressive / Tyranical leader who thinks he is god, surrounded by people who enable the organization to function
      • In Open Source - "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL)
        • see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life
        • Benevolent - means they are oriented towards Good.
        • Dictator - means that they have a king / queen role in community, that they hardly ever use, but can when needed during formational stages.
        • For Life - means that they carry the torch until it is passed.
        • Protection - ability to fork / clone
        • Pattern of failure - when leader won't lead...
      • ALIGNMENT... TOWARDS A VISION... WHERE MOTIVATION TO TAKE INITIATIVE... fall away (in paid organizations)
      • REQUIRES A CRSTAL CLEAR VISION...
        • a BDFL can always help everyone see the vision better
        • Really clear vision
        • you reach milestones... where things have transformed... there was a clarion call... and now I am confused...
      • Authority comes from group knowledge that there is
        • a crystal clear vision
        • a multitude of advisors
        • a knowledge that deep thought and wisdom have gone in, and a desire to hear something very clear from the source idea holder.
      • Examples - Python, Linux,
      • Servant leadership
    • Phase / temporal nature of this
  • Building and Program Management
  • Social Architecture
    • How the tech interacts with the people, the people interact with the tech, and
  • Social Dimensions
    • The purest humanist part

Onboarding

  • Training
    • Conversational literacy
    • Leadership skills
  • Metrics
    • tools and training
  • Vision
    • Aligning and merging across time

Reports about work done

  • Forms

Needs

  • Leadership
    • Identification of potential
    • Training in leadership development
    • Enablement / empowerment / agency of all
      • how each individual can exhibit and grow into the leadership of which they are capable
    • The critical role of early entrepreneurial leadership in teams.
  • Teams
    • Formation and functioning of teams
    • Performance measurement, management, alignment, execution etc.
    • Infrastructure and Support
  • Ways of operating
    • imposing rules like "one topic at a time?"
  • Ways of Not Reverting to Old Models
  • A way of merging and aligning vision over time
  • How to make people feel loved, included, in the loop, credited, appreciated, acknowledged, etc.

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