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by conatus 9y ago
Thanks for this - very interesting. Also very interesting on the degrading reputation - glad you/they have thought about these issues a bit. I'll add though I do think my concern of a quantitive fix to a qualitative and/or cu
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by conatus 9y ago
Legally organised as a cooperative. There are three categories of membership and a democratic process to move between each: 1. Members - formal cooperative members with legal responsibility. 2. Outlanders - people more dedicated to the caus
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by conatus 9y ago
See above ^ - I work for one so can say with some truth here. Yes they do have this problem but it confers several advantages: people are more bought into the work they are doing, they are happier, they understand decisions made about them,
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by conatus 9y ago
As far as I can tell Holocracy is basically a form of organisational design that doesn't depend on the blockchain for organisation.
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by conatus 9y ago
Outlandish.com - :)
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by conatus 9y ago
Interesting. In a sense we do get a stake in the company, which is a missing piece of the puzzle. The profits are put into a pot and you get a share equal to the days you worked. Then people can use an internal crowd funding platform (CoBud
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by conatus 9y ago
I work for a digital workers cooperative. It is organised non-hierarchically and via consent (i.e. a modified and lighter form of consensus decision making that emphasises "I won't stop this" over "I 100% in agreement) -
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by conatus 9y ago
Not really. I'd say that although unorthodox Marxists the situationalists would see themselves as following on from Marx. After all, the whole of The Society of The Spectacle begins with a reformation of the opening to Marx's Capi
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by conatus 9y ago
Baudrillard was on the left but was absolutely scathing about Marxism. He thought was a total theoretical dead end and a flawed reflection of the systems of capitalism it sought to overthrow. See his The Mirror Of Production.
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New Cooperative Digital Economy Space Launched in London(outlandish.com)
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by conatus 9y ago
As I said on this forum before hearing people talk about postmodernism as if it is the current "thing" within continental philosophy circles is really odd. It hasn't been for a decade or more. The backlash against these metho
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by conatus 9y ago
No borders?
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by conatus 9y ago
Very nice!
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by conatus 9y ago
What social change we want to cause is: a) decided democratically by those who have done the work. b) subject to a rigorous "theory of change" (of the kind used by charities and the third sector) to decide on potential impacts and
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by conatus 9y ago
Many of the kinds of clients we have - charities, tech for good companies, third-sector organisations, unions, local government, lobbying groups etc - are pleased to work with someone whose profits are used to further aims proximate to thei
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by conatus 9y ago
Thanks a lot, extremely kind! We are very very pleased to have made a difference. :)
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by conatus 9y ago
We hope we produce well made software for our clients which tries to follow the best industry practices when building these kinds of things both technically and in terms of project direction. This all springs from a very close and collabora
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by conatus 9y ago
Can't speak for elsewhere, but in the UK there are enough tech co-ops that we were able to form a network of them. https://www.coops.tech/
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by conatus 9y ago
I don't know of any off the top of my head, but I do know that substack, James Halliday, who is behind Browserify has launched a tech coop https://bits.coop/
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by conatus 9y ago
I work here. AMA.
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Why you should hire a tech co-op(outlandish.com)
16 points by conatus 9y ago|26 comments
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by conatus 10y ago
I've always seen projects I've been involved with off before leaving. Most employers I have worked with have been fine with pushing dates back - it shows your dedication as an engineer. In my view. It also prevents you burning bri
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by conatus 10y ago
This is a great podcast and they have featured our music a number of times!
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by conatus 10y ago
Huh. I run a Creative Commons record label - http://recordsonribs.com - we distribute our music through an online distributor and have never even had a hint of a problem with it. We use CC SA-NC. This for us is a pragmatic quest
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A React Redux Toolset for the WordPress API(github.com)
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by conatus 11y ago
That this was instantly downvoted is grim.
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What Life Will Look Like After the Robots Steal All Our Jobs(vice.com)
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by conatus 11y ago
Yup. Fascism, like all ideologies isn't completely neat. It contains those reactionary conservative elements (organic community, national tradition, criticism of modernity as shallow - i.e. very Tolkein but found in many fascist and ev
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Microsoft Forks Docker, Announces Docker for Windows?(github.com)
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by conatus 12y ago
Would upvote!

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