# 2025-10-08 Hypha Worker Co-op: All Hands

Attending: ?
Cultivator:
Notetaker: Dante

## Agenda

| Item | Time (min) |
|:------------------------------------------------|-----------:|
| [Predictions game](#Predictions-game) | 10 |
| [Announcements](#Announcements) | 5 |
| [Updates](#Updates-READ-BEFORE-MEETING) | 0 |
| [Questions](#Questions-on-Updates) | 5 |
| [Discussions](#Discussions) | 30 |
| [Checkout](#Check-out) | 10 |

## Notes

### Predictions game!

Predict: https://fatebook.io/tournament/hypha-monthly-all-hands--cmhca4aj80001osaedzkfl6u6

* Submit questions for next month!

### Announcements

### Updates (READ BEFORE MEETING!)

#### WG Updates

3-5 bullet points: what have you been up to this month?

- [Finance][finance] (Dante)
- Fiscal hosting in OpenCollective will begin winding down, keeping COMPOST as a collective in the short term
- Putting together a spreadsheet to categorize and track expenses + revenue per pillar (Stability/Growth/Solidarity/Internal)
- [Infrastructure][infrastructure] (Elon)
- Installed PDU to monitor Mac studio power usage
- Sent pricing to Co-Social
- Working on hardware refresh
- [Operations][operations] (Violet)
- New all-hands format ooo
- Lots of conversations around salary matrices, etc. More in today's discussions!
- There are government rebates available to pay for short-term disability coverage :smiling_imp: we're registering for those
- [Membership-Governance][Membership-Governance] (Ben)
- [Communications][Communications] (Vincent)
- New dripline post and newsletter published!
- Onboarded Udit
- Working on our post-practice area sales pitch

#### Stability Updates

Are we trucking? Please add a section here for your project if a) it's at risk, or b) there are opportunities for it to expand.
No updates mean everything's good!

#### Growth Updates (Udit)

[Recorded here.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IjIBRqf5HfICZunaY206LrNEv1_Ds7QF94YHd33y65c/edit?pli=1&tab=t.rxg32vak8z4j)

* What are the current active hypotheses?
* How are we progressing on testing them? Who at Hypha is working on what?
* Any key conversations that happened this month? Did we meet cool people?

#### Solidarity Updates (Cole)

* What are the current active hypotheses?
* How are we progressing on testing them? Who at Hypha is working on what?
* Any key conversations that happened this month? Did we meet cool people?

#### Resourcing Updates (Andi)

Are we trucking? Is there extra capacity that needs allocating? Are there projects that need extra work?

- Resource Steward description and tracking system memo; for review and discussion please: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-HFeEWa5-cQICFSAm8o5SbxJ2ez-7onSQPxr-II3Bt8/edit?tab=t.hlb1x6frxxt0#heading=h.pwrcwkq8s3hw
- Working on evergreen job postings - coming soon
- Harvest and Forecast trials are underway

### Questions on Updates?

* Q for ops: where are we on hiring plans?
* A: Not thinking about it because we're not imminently hiring for cosmos
* Open question: how do we hire? Are we hiring for roles or are we hiring for people?

### Discussions

#### Discussion 1

**Facilitator:** Lexa
**Question:** Should we turn L into a career path system with specific titles (Staff Engineer) tracked by the L variable as a whole number, and allow for decimals only as used in the salary equation?

The proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MZ2YxDC11XWfyCvlG2H5Rx3LVzGk9wZYSO-e-BIp2Ns/edit?tab=t.x8163k64mx97#heading=h.vr91byf8pnla

* "I really like this in general, I think it solves a lot of the problems we have. I like that it encodes how much support an individual is able to provide."
* "However, roles at Hypha aren't easy to define. Are we engineers? Not really."

* "It might be a good exercise to try to name a role for yourself"

* "This discussion is not about the roles, however, but about the qualifiers"

**Outcome (YES/NO/NO CONSENSUS/QUESTION UNCLEAR):** YES!

#### Discussion 2

**Facilitator:** Lexa
**Question:** Should we get rid of 'Responsibility' as a salary measure?

* "Why was responsibility there in the first place?"
* "So that people could choose to take a paycut if they want to take an easier job"
* "How much do you wanna be in founder mode?"
* Some amount of acknowledging internal work that doesn't fit into one's career path
* But we have other ways of compensating this kind of work now
* And the "founderish" roles/labour can be formalized

* There's a sustainability problem here. There's no incentive to come down.
* People shouldn't be on founder mode if they don't need to

* No one uses R as something that is changeable
* This creates a liability for Hypha if everyone wants to be super-founder and we max out our Rs
* How do you budget for that?

* We need to find incentives for people to take initiative beyond their role
* We don't want to make Hypha hyper transactional though.
* Not every piece of work should have a dollar value, with an internal marketplace emerging

**Outcome (YES/NO/NO CONSENSUS/QUESTION UNCLEAR):** YES

**Action Items:**

* Ops to come back with follow-up plans for incentivization

#### Discussion 3

**Facilitator:** Udit
**Question:** Should Hypha pursue opportunities adjacent to EQTY and Starling?

**Private, no notes.**

**Outcome (YES/NO/NO CONSENSUS/QUESTION UNCLEAR):** YES to Starling, NO to EQTY

### Check-out

## Action Items for Cultivator

- Publish [meeting notes][meeting-notes]
- Reset meeting pad for next meeting

[finance]: https://github.com/orgs/hyphacoop/projects/2?card_filter_query=label:"finance"
[infrastructure]: https://github.com/orgs/hyphacoop/projects/2?card_filter_query=label:"infrastructure"
[operations]: https://github.com/orgs/hyphacoop/projects/2?card_filter_query=label:"operations"
[opportunities]: https://github.com/orgs/hyphacoop/projects/2?card_filter_query=label:"opportunities"
[initiatives]: https://link.hypha.coop/initiatives
[Strategy]: https://github.com/orgs/hyphacoop/projects/10/views/1?filterQuery=label%3Astrategy
[Communications]: https://github.com/orgs/hyphacoop/projects/10/views/1?filterQuery=label%3Acomms
[Membership-Governance]: https://github.com/orgs/hyphacoop/projects/10/views/1?filterQuery=label%3Ammgov
[meeting-notes]: https://link.hypha.coop/meetings