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# ODIN S3 Study Group - Tuesday March 26, 2024

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## 🛠 Resources
- Miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVMFump0c=/?share_link_id=243807558162
- [Past Agendas](https://hackmd.io/@xeeban?tags=%5B%22Agenda%22%5D)

## ✅ Agenda
### Meeting Start (15m)

- Welcome and check-ins
    - Newman5 (Me)
    - JeremyB
    - Randall
    - Fireflies.ai Notetaker Nori
    - robertom
    - Seomon
- Agenda Review and prioritization
    - Tensions
    - Jeremy field mapping
    - any tensions we pick?
    - 
- Announcements
    - Newman's Gimbalabs playground on DiD / SSI / VC
   
- Round of Tensions
    - @Roberto what's feeling painful about Sociocracy? 
        - command & control is natural & intuitive
        - feeling consent exhaustion - decentralized governance fatigue. 
        - Hard to do collaborative work. 
        - Weaponized - can be just as harmful - gets political quick
        - working by committee sucks. Initiative and personal responsibility feels like it would be better
    - Roberto: [the dRep pioneer program with Intersect. running workshops arround dRep](https://mpc.intersectmbo.org/drep-pioneer-program?_hsmi=299425152&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_mts6mkSnHBpQ-RPhSLqbEQGCFiIzz5DEbkNjoc5tZsuWTaX56yaM0ZXJZxopEgkiemklyQ57-JBrtC8vDMi0SG9ofNQ). opportunity for getting a project. Game was submitted for interSect. Could apply for funds to run a Drep workshop.
        - project planning, get money, make deliverables. 
        - the scope of governance, decentralized innovation, knowledge management and facilitation
        - objections misunderstood as "opportunity for feedback" rather than "danger!" signals

    - Newman: 
        - Capturing backlog so it's continuous and we can make progress on those things
        - :pray: Need Driver for Gimbalabs "Community" circle
        - :pray: Need Driver for S3SG
        - What's the difference between circle and hiearchy organization? 
    - Randall:
        - want specific & concrete projects whose tensions can be served by ODIN Growth & Sustainability, rather than the general/abstract case for its LMVC (less-than-minimum viable charter).
        - the need for specific projects and use them to generate tension and focus energy.
        - No projects, no clients, no tension, no charter. 
        - NEED focus on Intended outcomes.  Getting clear on that, then next steps come easier.
            - ?stages of maturity 
            - less-than-minimum viable charter
            - minimum-viable (e.g with responsbilities) (what lets people get their own autonomy?)
            - "casual sociocracy" facilitation
            - chicken/egg to fluid self-gov?
        - What does Sociocracy in good practice actually look like? -> Jeremy:
            - authority arising from merit: ~~they grabbed control~~ they took initiative and people consented
            - hierarchy is natural & emergent
        - Anecdote: Catalyst Circle failed
            - "power over"
            - ?did election lead to this result?
            - A committee: the only organism in the known universe with more than one head... and no brain.
            - purpose: NOT to make decisions! to support autonomy toward objectives!

### Agenda Items (25m)
- Jeremy's proposal on Field Mapping
    - https://www.loomio.com/d/EqoOPXFr/s3-study-group-governance-experiment/3
        - people can see the structure
        - this is an initiative in the Education sub Circle
        - 
        - Authorship - your idea gives creative authority and responsiblity. Author takes a risk.
        - how to scale the small group dynamics?
        - example of Valve company: to make a proposal that people want to work on. need arises in an organic way. the need to get buy in. 
- S3 Game
    - Game Driver: S3 book / textbook is boring, dense.
- Most Elegant Next Steps

#### Backlog Items for next time
- Newman- The idea of a governance season as a salve for Governance Fatigue, see Roberto's tension.  
- Serialization of community governance communication
- A personal statement of the intended outcome for ODIN

### Meeting End (5m)
- Check out Round?

## 📝 Meeting Notes
- Taken by: Randall 


