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Podcast: Audience of One
Episode: #018 - Rich Bartlett on Coordination, Optimism, Commitment, & Agency
Description: Rich Bartlett helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralised organisations. He’s the co-founder of tech co-op Loomio, community building network Microsolidarity, management consultancy The Hum, and director of the social impact collective Enspiral.
We talk about microsolidarity, fellowship and belonging, being optimistic and pessimistic about the future, cooperation and coordination, increasing agency, commitment, and identifying what you’re good at.
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(01:04) Why do we need better human coordination?
(06:25) Straddling the line between optimistic and pessimistic; being “pro” things instead of “anti”
(12:23) Stories drive cooperation
(15:51) Does he have a fundamentally good view of human nature?
(20:24) How to increase...