barn-raising
- target: 10 by summer solstice
- by which point I'd like to have someone else mostly running them
- would be cool to have a barn-raising for someone in their teens, at some point
- What's the vision for these? Written November 13th, 2021
- Why the barn-raisings?
- Practice self-energizing motivation
- both in general and also in conjunction with working with other people
- (huh, I could give a little presentation about this at the start of the barn-raisings)
- Practicing collaboration & teamwork
- Get more people launched with businesses
- Provide an outlet for peoples' creative talents
- Create wealth in our network(s)
- Develop a crew that can launch new ideas I might have
- I'm re-reading the thread where I talked about coming up with the barn-raising idea via DMing Nibras Ibnomer
- and then also re-reading the DMs themselves
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Podcast summaries
- 1:36 - 5:55 How can we help more people experience self-energizing motivation? self-energizing barn-raising
- Keywords - barn-raising collecting barn-raising resources metaphor meta-team meta-vision Goal-Crafting Intensive Intend Philosophy & Paradigm Intend Philosophy & Paradigm Intend Philosophy & Paradigm me as project advisor / biz consultant / design jammer / co-visioner steward ownership What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Self-Organized Criticality Everything is a Remix how do we arrange the world so that I get to eat bananas in Canada and everyone is satisfied with the arrangement? UBI
- 5:56 - 12:30 - Why is "barn-raising" the perfect metaphor for helping people launch their self-owned ventures? metaphor barn-raising collecting barn-raising resources self-energizing
- Keywords - brain hemispheres McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model Perceptual Control Theory barn-raising Internal Family Systems blindspot blindspot feedback is hard (but possible!) it's only possible to be rational within a frame make shared or different frames explicit Change doesn't just happen Intend productivity Intend Philosophy & Paradigm how to think about goals PCT internal conflict much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly What are the components or dimensions required for collaborative culture? Geoffrey West Questions for teasing apart the concept of commitment commitment/choice is a confused way to relate to stances/mindsets Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings everyone is constantly overgeneralizing acceptance isn't the same as acceptance safety self-trust right hemisphere left hemisphere self-energizing
- 12:48 - 19:43 - Have barn-raising sessions been effective so far? How can they be more effective if not? barn-raising Self-Organized Criticality
- 40:51 - 58:00 - My long term vision of what I want the meta-team to eventually look like focus on what you want meta-team meta-vision collecting barn-raising resources how do we arrange the world so that I get to eat bananas in Canada and everyone is satisfied with the arrangement? UBI
With Jonny Miller — Podcast with Jonny Miller Transcript › Outline of ideas discussed. (I'm M, Jonny is J)
- 1:35:30 - 1:55:32 - Domino memes, barn-raising, new ways to non-coercively collaborate. self-energizing barn-raising Game B
December 7th, 2021
- Paul Millerd (@p_millerd) wants to help with barn-raising
- > helping people launch stuff is a very negative effort thing for me. perhaps we test one? I can announce to my community maybe in december or jan. We do it as a sort of open-sourced thing. People join and then we ask some of our friends to join and ten split off into different groups of projects
running it does seem a little more complicate than the ideal vision of it
but perhaps we just brainstorm the minimum viable way of doing it
October 20th, 2021
- "ready to launch" — clear output
- P > startups are baby steps
- A > I've done a lot of hackathons, and I don't think there's been any where stuff has been ready to ship by hour 6
- M > did we get you guys over a hurdle?
- A > yeah, kinda
- we probably could
- the amount & quality of the feedback we got from that one event was AWESOME
- like 6-7 documents of people meticulously going through the onboarding flow and documenting confusions
- it's hard to get people to do that
- P > I really think it was huge for us
- the way I envision the product is different from before/after
- other people helped got us out of the weeds
- I feel more confident after the barn-raising
- A > one of the people who came looks like gonna be a customer
- which is huge
- every beta customer matters so much
- A > got us really clear that the new user experience needs to feel good for nontech people as well
- P > now it feels obvious
- A > spiel?
- M > yeah maybe!
- A > rapid-fire notes
- size: I think it could have had 3× the people
- structure: slightly too unstructured
- all the structure we added seemed to be used
- people seemed to read the notion wiki etc
- making a wiki for how to contribute usefully
- length: people seemed to kind of run out of steam after 4-6h
- the reasons hackathons go so long
- particular type of people: college, software, gamey types
- gamified
- should be more like 6h
- or more hackathon-energized
- P > interintellect
- maybe have a central event with a starting gun
- but also maybe some people hang out for afterparty
- R > had been worried about people stealing it
- M > yeah, which would be bad but not as bad as nobody getting access
- R > business partner is my sister, who is an accountant
- she tracks more of the risks
- sometimes seems not to notice that if we don't launch anything we won't make any money
- R > I've been teaching dyslexic kids for the last decade
- and these card games really work
- they memorize things in 2-3 weeks when it otherwise fails over a year
- (Andrew joins)
- R > simple card-flipping memory game
- one half of the pair is eg 42, the other is eg 6×7
- main problem, when I sat down to think about it, is mainly marketing & distribution
- unless I do a kickstarter thing, I don't know a way to get the word out on a bigger scale
- stuff for people to help with
- website with preorders
- similar to askhole.io
- todo before the barn-raising: get testimonials or other content that would want to go on there
- find leads
- parents of dyslexic kids forum
- (other sources)
- illustration for future projects
October 9th, 2021
- (pretty soon I want these in their own graph)
- Naming
plain text EVOC Evocativity Conveys at least a hint of what it’s naming BREV Brevity Shorter = better GREP Greppability Not a substring of common words GOOG Googlability Reasonably unique (and domain name available) PRON Pronounceability You can read it out loud when you see it SPEL Spellability You know how it’s spelled when you hear it VERB Verbability The name (or variant thereof) can be used as a verb
- Qs for code contributors
- I intend to help Qrono, Inc. (Qrono) by reviewing, updating, or contributing code to one or more of their projects. I voluntarily give Qrono full ownership of any of my contributions, including the rights to distribute, replicate, use, copy, delete, or do whatever they want with my contributions to their projects.
- I am contributing to Qrono totally voluntarily, on a one-time basis. This does not in anyway imply a work contract or a working relationship with Qrono now or going forward.
- I will not distribute, publish, sell, copy, save, or discuss any of the intellectual property (code, language, logos, images) which is not explicitly licensed as open source. I will delete any intellectual property which might have been saved on my machine in the process contributing.
- Thanks so much for filling that out, sorry for the legal agreements! This question just exists so I can send this message because of Typeform restrictions. Anyway, are you enjoying your time at the barn raising so far?
September 21st, 2021
- barn-raising stuff to do
September 14th, 2021
- drafting barn-raising announcement for Qrono
- Announcing the first virtual barn-raising!
October 9th all day (9am-midnight pacific)
Featuring a bookings platform by @Prigoose & @drewface. I'm excited to have them be the first barn-raising, for a few reasons, which I'll share in this thread.
twitter.com/drewface/status/1435518784752832515 - One is that the main difference between barn-raisings and hackathons is that by default nothing ongoing happens after a hackathon. Sometimes a project gets legs anyway, but it's not the default.
And since Priya & Andrew are already committed to this business, it's gonna happen! - add something here about precisely what stage they're at
- 2 beta customers
- with a product (that one of the customers is using in production!)
- I feel this will do something really good for the momentum of the barn-raisings as well. We'll definitely do barn-raisings for people less far along, but it feels important to make it clear that these one day events are for realizing something long-term.
- Another reason I'm stoked to have them go first is that there's a ton of different stuff to do:
• clever sales & marketing strategy
• redesign logo, website elements, name
• open-sourcing some of their work
• #and_more - Reason 3: Their product is a platform/API, so we can also have people hacking *using* the platform, in parallel!
What Stripe is for payments, they are that for bookings.
twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1435659652365262848 - Every barn-raising is also gonna involve some meta work, so totally come if you're interested in barn-raising the process of barn-raisings! This is the first event, so we're setting precedent and building systems for the future. There will be exciting meta-work to be done documenting, building, and improving the process!