This is fantastic stuff. Nice to see others independently coming up with the transmitters and receivers model. Also, the structure mentioned in 3a resonates strongly for me with the people groping towards some sense that Circling type skills seem to be useful for rationality but couldn’t quite put their finger on why. My experience is that Circling with good facilitators enables exactly the kinds of things seen in 3a.
Two things that we’ve found useful at QRI that may apply:
1. A slack or slack like thing (keybase is nice for the additional security) for tracking the explosion of references and conversational threads that occur when you find a generative frame/question/method set is way way more useful than things like shared gdocs. It allows more of ‘getting the lay of the land’ to reorient yourself when you’ve been away and developments have happened in the meantime. Storing links in this format also gives them a juicy sense of discovery where other formats can make them feel more like homework needed to participate in the convo.
2. Maintaining momentum in the load balancing of connections in the graph of one-on-one meetings. That is to say, groups seem to function better when there is roughly equal communication between all the participants. Probably for a variety of reasons but one major one is that it seems to allow better bootstrapping of blindspots. Crossing all the possible one-on-ones gives the chance for misunderstandings to get worked out so that people can return to much more flow-like communication patterns. This is accomplished by regularly scheduling the various one-on-ones, prioritizing them, and making it so that people can request them without feeling like it is a big ask. Generally accomplished via video chat when in person would be laborious.
This is fantastic stuff. Nice to see others independently coming up with the transmitters and receivers model. Also, the structure mentioned in 3a resonates strongly for me with the people groping towards some sense that Circling type skills seem to be useful for rationality but couldn’t quite put their finger on why. My experience is that Circling with good facilitators enables exactly the kinds of things seen in 3a.
Two things that we’ve found useful at QRI that may apply:
1. A slack or slack like thing (keybase is nice for the additional security) for tracking the explosion of references and conversational threads that occur when you find a generative frame/question/method set is way way more useful than things like shared gdocs. It allows more of ‘getting the lay of the land’ to reorient yourself when you’ve been away and developments have happened in the meantime. Storing links in this format also gives them a juicy sense of discovery where other formats can make them feel more like homework needed to participate in the convo.
2. Maintaining momentum in the load balancing of connections in the graph of one-on-one meetings. That is to say, groups seem to function better when there is roughly equal communication between all the participants. Probably for a variety of reasons but one major one is that it seems to allow better bootstrapping of blindspots. Crossing all the possible one-on-ones gives the chance for misunderstandings to get worked out so that people can return to much more flow-like communication patterns. This is accomplished by regularly scheduling the various one-on-ones, prioritizing them, and making it so that people can request them without feeling like it is a big ask. Generally accomplished via video chat when in person would be laborious.