co-what-now

Cointelligence R&D Lab Proposal

• Each day (in some sense, each moment) we co-what-now
  • We behold everything together, sit with the unknown of "what now?" and surface awareness of what needs our individual or collective attention.
  • Some days this might involve an extended dialogue about something, whether that's a strategic question for the team or larger organization, a communication tension in the group, some feedback that needs to flow, someone's personal block, some concrete technical problem, or anything else.
  • At other times, immediate individual or subgroup priorities will be apparent for all or part of the group, and those people will break off to go take care of those priorities. And then maybe some or all of the group will recenter later in the day to reorient.
  • For more on what this is, read this article:
    • co-what-now: aiming for flow & sovereignty on the largest scale presently possible

• In this context, functional co-what-nowing is a fluid bridge between strategy/tactics, and a simple stand-up meeting.
  • Obviously it can break down
    • either by
      • tending towards too much strategy & meta
        & losing touch with the object level
        • which is problematic, both
          • because it means nothing gets done
          • because it means becoming untethered from tangible feedback loops (as opposed to social ones)
      • becoming just an ordinary stand-up meeting
        & losing touch with the deep unknown
        • which is problematic, both
          • because it means that double-loop learning doesn't really happen (changing strategy)
          • because it means that triple-loop learning doesn't really happen (changing one's relationship to strategy)

dynamic facilitation

• it's a scaffold for getting co-what-now energy