Malcolm Ocean's roamblog

October 15th, 2021

edited 2021-10-15 · open in Roam
  • this StayListening parenting practice seems related to a kind of move that's sometimes needed in adult trust-dancing too
  • bluesky twitter project
  • information theory as relevant to trust-dancing
    • Yes Requires the Possibility of No
      • (failed) partswork / internal conflict example:
        • 5. Eve is has an aversion to doing B. She wants to eliminate this aversion. She tries to do an internal double crux with herself. She identifies a rational part of herself who can obviously see that it is good to do B. She identifies another part of herself that is afraid of B. The rational part thinks the other part is stupid and can't imagine being convinced that B is bad. The IDC fails, and Eve continues to have an aversion to B and internal conflict.
  • I read a bit of Books/Scale by Geoffrey West by Geoffrey West tonight
    • including jumping to the section talking about why companies die and cities don't
    • I may break it down but the main jist is that companies get pressured into operating on really slim margins, which then means they can't weather perturbations
      • as for why this happens, I haven't read that section yet
      • Haier is also maybe solving this with its micro-enterprises?
        • although also maybe not, because maybe those MEs aren't actually themselves that profitable?
        • but maybe also the MEs are able to die without the whole dying, way more easily
        • and the org is able to branch out into new arenas easily & creatively
        • HA! a WE composed of many MEs 😆
      • at any rate, it does broadly seem like the thing I'm pointing at with the meta-team is more city-like than company-like in the first place
        • I was initially thinking that maybe I would conclude from reading Books/Scale by Geoffrey West that I would want to make it more city-like vs company-like, but it's already kind of that
        • and I guess I had been thinking of it as almost like an economy
    • anyway, impressions so far:
      • visakanv will want to read this, or at least parts of it
        • just bought it for him on readgift
      • this has implications for team design