Richard Bartlett talks to Jim about his experiences with decentralized work & organization, Gameb, group size dynamics, big change movements & much more...

Richard Bartlett talks to Jim about his experiences with decentralized work & organization, transitioning from game a to Gameb, models for financial solidarity, technology-first vs psychology-first approaches to collaboration, dyad vs crew vs congregation dynamics, competency-based networks, practices vs principles, moving podcasts towards community, activism vs actionism, decision-making methods & conflict management, post-COVID network change potential, fundamentals focus in big change movements, intentions vs competencies, the power of modularity, and more.

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Richard D. Bartlett co-founded the digital tool Loomio and a decentralization consulting company, The Hum. He writes about how we work together, at any scale, from relationships to organizations to social change.

He publishes on Medium.com, was a contributing author for Better Work Together, curates a comprehensive list of resources for decentralized organizations, and his first unfinished book (Patterns for Decentralised Organising) covers solutions to common failure points of groups – current draft available here. His most recent project, Microsolidarity is a plan for weaving purposeful networks where people support each other with deep mutual aid.