Apprenticeship

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These are an unorganized and incomplete set of what I believe that an Blockchain Commons Apprentice needs to have some competency in order to move toward becoming a Journeyman.

– Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@LifeWithAlacrity.com>

Concepts

Mentorship, Advising, Internship, Apprenticeship, Reciprocal Apprenticeship, Journeyman, Master & Mastery

Mentorship
Advising
Internship
Apprenticeship
Reciprocal Apprenticeship

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Reciprocal_apprenticeship

Journeyman
Master & Mastery

Top-Down Architectures

Limitations of top-down

First Principles, Principles, Axiom, Patterns, Models, Processes, Tools

First Principles
Definition
Principles
Definition
  • A principle is a fundamental assumption while axiom is a seemingly which cannot actually be proved or disproved.
Axioms
Definition
  • An axiom is a complete, formal statement (ideally one which can be true in some "interesting" models and false in others). A principle is a much more general thing, and in fact sometimes "principle" is used to refer to informal heuristics rather than formal properties.
MG Taylor Axioms
  • TBW:
Patterns
Definition
  • A pattern is an observation that something is in common that an observer may discern when looking a number of different events.
Pattern Languages
General
  • A 'pattern language' is a collected way of describing patterns that fall within the design field of complex problems.
GroupWorks Pattern Language
Wise Democracy Pattern Language
Pattern Language of Cooperative Play
  • Book Shannon Appelcline are drafting
Design with Intent
  • The Design With Intent toolkit focuses on influencing socially and environmentally beneficial behavior through design.
Models
Definition
  • TBW
Limitations of Models
  • TBW
MG Taylor Models
  • TBW
Processes
Definition
  • A process is a series of actions that are taken to accomplish a particular end.
Tools

Definition

  • TBW
Limitations of Tools
  • TBW

Skill Trees & Pedagogy

Self-Sovereign Identity & Human Rights

The Commons & Participatory Ecosystems

Software Business & Intellectual Property

Open Source Culture

Cooperation & Collaboration

Decision Making, Rationality, Cognitive Bias

Social Change

Economics
Game Theory
Incentive Mechanism Design
Game Design

Skills

Soft Skills (non-technical, management, etc.)

Pedagogy/Androgogy

Skill Trees/Hierarchy
Proficiency Ladder / Flow

Management

  • Vantage Point Model for Objectives

Collaboration & Facilitation

Facilitation Patterns
Using GroupWorks Pattern Language

Technical Skills (in particular computer, but not exclusively)

Mac

Basic Tools
Command Line (in particular on Mac)
Dotfiles

Markdown

Git & GitHub

Basics
GitHub using Web Interface
GitHub using GitHub App, Atom & Typora
Command-line GitHub
GitHub Security - SSH & PGP
GitHub Pages
  • Jekyll-Less
  • Remote-Themes
  • Leveraging Local Jekyll for Static Pages
  • Hugo Static

Domain Management

DNS & Privacy
DNS Client Services
DNS Server Services
DNS & Github

Virtual Private Servers

Linode & Debian

OpSec

Authentication / Authorization

Master Password
Password Management
Key Management
  • 2FA
  • MFA/FIDO2
  • SSH
  • PGP
  • BIP39
VPN
Mullvad
Personal VPN on VPS
  • TBW:

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Basics

Bitcoin Basic Development

Bitcoin-Core
Developing with Bitcoin Core
Lightning

SmartCustody

First Workshop

Anonymity

Burner Laptop
  • Choosing
    • I in particular like the MacBook Air 11" ( Mid 2011, A1370, MD214LL/A, Mac 3,1) max 4GB RAM, SSD is upgradeable to 1TB, wifi can be removed for Air Gap machines, has Thunderbolt 1 (though otherwise only two USB 2.0 ports), it will run High Sierra (not Mojave), Tails OS, any Debian-derived OS (if you add Broadcom drivers to installer or remove wifi chip during install), Whonix in VirtualBox in High Sierra, and is even qualified for full Qubes support (but like Debian you have to remove Broadcom WiFi during install). Small, cheap and powerful enough. Get one on eBay with 4GB RAM as that can't be upgraded, but don't pay a lot for 256GB SSD (the largest Apple offered) as you can upgrade that with OWL. Many used units will have poor battery quality, so watch for that or be prepared to purchase a battery replacement.
Before you Start
Basic Tails OS
  • Booting basic Tails OS from USB drive
  • Using basic Tails OS
  • Using Tor Browser
  • Other Tails OS Apps
  • Bitcoin on Tails - Electrum
  • Create new Tails drives
Advanced Tails OS
Other Anonymous OS
  • Whonix
    • Uses host operating system and two VirtualBox VMs
  • Qubes
    • Hardware level privacy, but limited drivers
Anonymity Best Practices

Projects

Tutorials

  • Tutorial for non-programmers on how to do GitHub using web interface & using apps like Atom & GitHub App
  • Tutorial: Mac Users on Command
  • Tutorial for engineers on better use of GitHub from Command-Line Interface
  • Tutorial: Using GitHub Pages for Blogs & Websites
  • Tutorial: Basic Opsec

SocioSocratic Learning Seminars

  • Christopher Has domain SociosocraticLearning.com "Adding the Social Web to the ancient art of Socratic Learning"

  • Github (empty) https://github.com/ChristopherA/SocioSocracticLearning for web page

  • Pedagogy using Zoom https://www.slideshare.net/ChristopherA/my-hybrid-flipped-learning-environment

  • Unpublished call-for-students circa 2014 when I left BGI:

    • I have taught technology leadership in a progressive MBA in Sustainable Systems program (Pinchot.edu), yet even given their innovative curriculum, there are number of masters level topics that I would like to teach that are too new or advanced to offer through formal academia. Many of these topics are related to sources of disruption that are driving business change today (Occupy, self-management, blockchains, millenials, breaking out of the "growth" style of entrepreneurship, participatory management, etc.).

      I'm considering offering a sociosocratic style classes online on these management topics, at mastery level, in my Zoom conference room. (Sociosocratic is the ancient Socratic method except that the smart questions & answers come from both students and teacher/facilitator as co-creators.)

      I'm thinking Tuesday's at 5pm PT, probably starting in late fall. Likely it very inexpensive at first ($75 per 3 classes in a single series, more just to hold space and people to firm up their commitments.)

      These are some of the topics that I think the students that are wish to break out of the current approaches to business would find useful. Each of these topics are not complete enough to be a course in and of themselves, but collectively someday could be integrated into one.

      • Stability, Growth, Hypergrowth — the nature of growth, stable businesses, 'big enough", the classic growth economic model, and hyper growth of a 13-person billion dollar business in less then a year (Instagram to Facebook), and breaking out of the growth model.

      • The nature of different entrepreneurial cultures, including family businesses, partnerships, professional partnerships, dividend corps, growth corps, as well as some non-US models like Japan's Keiretsu, Spain's Mondragon, and Italy's Emilia Romagna.

      • Emerging trends in capitalization, including new kinds of debt financing, Kickstarter, angel investing, benefit investing, small business financing, worker cooperatives, and nature of control vs ownership (i.e. zuckerberg style of leveraged control vs. even equally distributed ownership).

      • Alternatives to exits — ESOP, dividends, interest, residuals/royalties, revenue streams

      • Emerging trends in management — lean startups, distributed startups, etc.

      • How to be a founder — founder's dilemma hands-off management, do founders hiring management/operations rather then be management, etc.

      • Stakeholder management — different approaches to ownership and control by employees, sweat-equity, small-business intrapreneurial models, transition / retirement / departure of founders, board members, and key employees, etc.

      • Alternative economic systems — open source, gift economies, sharing economies, participatory ecosystems, etc.

      • Professional consulting & Solopreneurship — the wide variety of small companies with big impact providing design and other services, and not just to large corps.

      • Global entrepreneuring — partnering with entrepreneurs in other countries and cultures.

      • Co-opetition — working with your competitors, growing a market, creating common standards, sharing non-competive advantage functionality (i.e. open source and IBM0, negotiating win-win scenarios.

      • Serial & Parallel entrepreneurship — issues of managing multiple businesses (either in serial or in parallel), surviving the sale of the company, exit strategies, "non-exit" exit strategies.

      • Failure — freedom to fail, "don't let your dogs become your pets", when to cut the cord, when to double-down, failing gracefully, risk management, hibernation, bankruptcy is not the end of the world, learning from failure, postmortems, keeping positive relationships with fired employees.

      • Unique team challenges — early departure of team members, team members with inter-personal relationships, team selection types, virtual/distributed/remote/multi-cultural teams, outsourcing.

      • Mentorship — nature of mentors, coaches, sponsors, advisors, board members, working in industry before building a company, corporate sponsorship (extra-preneurship)

      • Right Livelihood — work-life balance, working from home, co-working, 80% plans (one of: 1 day off a week, leave early or arrive late daily, 1 month sabbatical each year beyond vacation), employee policies and benefits, employee retention, day jobs, incorporating family, women as entrepreneurs and employees, etc.

      • Stories – entrepreneurs, angels, vc's, telling stories of experience with the above.

      With some thinking I would add quite a few more topics, for instance what is going on with blockchain and cryptographic ledgers, decentralized autonomous organization, smart contracts, censorship- & power-resistant systems, incentives, neurology of decision making, austrian economics, etc.

      For an example of a more intensive 12 week hybrid (both F2F & online) course I ran in 2012, here is my syllabus for Using the Social Web for Social Change

      Here is an example of the first two weeks of that more intensive course.

      Some of these digital influence topics from this class are additional possible topics students could select from.

      I think the format for class would be pick a topic & three Tuesday's that work for about 7 students. Week 1 would start with Scan — I would provide a list of read ahead articles & videos, and discussion asynchronous and in online chat room would be about them. Week 2 would be Focus — picking a sub-topic to dive deeper into, with some assignments for all to do some research. Week 3 would be Synthesis — collaboratively write up best synthesis and links about topic, with the audience being the next time class might be run on same topic or for use by professional practitioners. Commitment: 4-1/2 hours in synchronous class (1-1/2 per meeting), about 3 hours of reading and research and 2 hours writing.

      See the recommendations from my students in my LinkedIn profile about my classes.

      Send me email at mailto:ChristopherA@LifeWithAlacrity.com if you are interested.

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