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Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Joshua Vial, co-founder of the multifaceted social-impact support network Enspiral…
Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Joshua Vial, co-founder of the multifaceted social-impact support network Enspiral. They discuss Enspiral’s origin story, its organizational structure, tradeoffs between exploration & exploitation, coherent pluralism, how to do a company without bosses, keeping product & consulting companies separate, the origins of Loomio in Occupy Wall St. consensus processes, how to invite external investors without shitshow VC culture, building to sell vs building to keep, Enspiral as intentional-contributor collider, face-to-face vs virtual collaborations, effects of international growth, the Golden Pandas livelihood pod, unsettling permission-seeking habits in communities, management theories as picking grounds for practices, Dev Academy & cutting out “ball-chasing” in education, Web3 as a chance for citizens to win, DAOs as possible next unit of human culture, worthy social-impact projects in the blockchain space, and much more.
- Episode Transcript
- JRS EP51 – Richard Bartlett on Self-Organizing Collaboration
- Game-B.org
- Microsolidarity
- JRS EP140 – Robin Dunbar on Friendship
- The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies, by Scott Page
- Loomio
- P’s in a pod: Purpose, Proximity & Product — the journey of the Golden Pandas
- Enspiral Handbook
- Better Work Together (book)
- Dev Academy
- GitCoin
- ecodao
- Regen Network
- Cosmos
- DEVxDAO