Sunday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Finances
- Strategy/Tactics Talk
- Evaluations
- Closing Blessing
Check-in
- Brandon … I've gotten started on Concerning Speech
- Ben … I got up an hour ago and just barely managed to clean up the bathroom and eat breakfast before the call.
- Eric … Dog hair, OMG dog hair! That’s all I can say. I’ve been cleaning this morning.
Opening Blessing
We come together to do the work. We come despite sleet and snow, rain and fog, because the work is deeply worthwhile. May we find our way past all obstacles. --Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
- Brandon … get a new server started for the wikis … by next business call
- Brandon … spend 15 minutes every day on Machine Learning … ongoing
- Brandon … make a daily 1 minute video check-in for Ben and Eric … ongoing
- <s>Brandon … Meditate regularly with Eric … ongoing</s>
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day on Flight in a Cage … ongoing
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did … ongoing
- <s>Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did … ongoing
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry at least 15 minutes a day… ongoing
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben … ongoing
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon … ongoing</s>
WW(W)s
- Brandon … spend 15 minutes every day on Machine Learning … ongoing
- Brandon … make a daily 1 minute video check-in for Ben and Eric … ongoing
- Brandon … Meditate regularly with Eric … ongoing
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Ben … spend at least 15 minutes a day on Flight in a Cage … ongoing
- Ben … Send Brandon/Eric a video message each day about what I did … ongoing
- Eric … Send Brandon/Ben a video message each day about what I did … ongoing
- Eric … Work on Buckleberry at least 15 minutes a day… ongoing
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Ben … ongoing
- Eric … Meditate regularly with Brandon … ongoing
Weekly Events Logistics
Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Shelley, Brandon
- Nov 26 Service: 8:00 AM PDT / 11:00 EDT … Brandon
- Nov 27 Business Call: 8:00 AM PDT / 11:00 EDT
Finances
- This will always feel like a burden as long as there isn't anything we're raising the money toward
- Buildings at Buckleberry?
- This would open cans of worms, like Michelle feeling like Brandon and Ben are taking away ownership of the project
- Eric would feel more comfortable discussing this after he has something to show for the project
- Brandon thinks we should incorporate SolSeed before we (semi)formalize the finances again
Strategy Talk
Six Thinking Hats
- Green … brainstorming
- Yellow … positive (Sunny) evaluation
- Black … negative (Shadow) evaluation
- Red … emotional
- White … logic only
- Blue … process (noticing which hat is happening, actively selecting a hat)
Red Hatting
- Start a Shiny Party that promotes science better than any existing party, as well as voting reform using ranked-choice ballots and auditable cryptographic proof of who's voting so we wouldn't have to trust the voting-machine companies. Also promotes ConsensusPolling and other methods for better decision making in a networked age.
- Eric … mixed, honors my dad’s efforts toward rank choice, discouraged that we could succeed, worried that it might take us away from the core of SolSeed
- Brandon … optimistic that now is an opening that I haven't felt for these things before, worried that it would detract from the core, worried that it would become a slog
- Ben … highly doubtful that this would get anywhere and frightened that if it did, it would take on a life of its own that would pull it away from green values
Work on ways to preserve good things about civilization through a climate-disrupted dark age
- Work with the Long Now Foundation
- We could start an open-source collaborative project to build a tech tree like in Civilization-type games, but with instructions for how to really do it, and a focus on making the resulting civilization sustainable
- Ben … afraid this may be the only worthwhile thing on the list, sounds like sad to work on (sucking energy rather than giving energy)
- Eric … excited about it, hopeful that it could bring us together with a lot of other groups, and relaxed that it wouldn’t strain us and we could work on other things too
- Brandon … repelled by the dark age part of it, attracted by the positive future parts of it, sounds fun to work on a game, worried that it would be divisive of our core group
Deepening our practices (internal audience)
- Work on a mechanism to have asynchronous services
- Work on stabilizing our new blog-writing practice and promoting our own blog
- Improving our celebrations, e.g. hold more events in places with dark skies so we can see lots of stars and the Milky Way
- Brandon … confident that this top level goal will make progress in some or all of these directions based on our the inertia of SolSeed
- Ben … un-confident that our blogging practice is going to get seriously going without a strategic effort, ashamed to have told people in our newsletter that we started the blogging practice and then have had it never happen
- Eric … shiny excitement about the asynchronous services, comfort and connection excitement about the blog writing practice, defensive at the "improve our celebrations" piece because I love our celebrations and it feels disloyal
Recruiting (external audience)
- Re-start the book program (we have a bunch of PotS copies)
- Create one or more videos about the concept of Shiny Green
- Create videos of us talking about our visions
- Create a Lauren Olamina page on Facebook and speak as the 7 year old Lauren Olamina (hopefully with the help of an actual black woman) … follow her life and journal as her
- Contact some possibly kindred people such as David Duemler
- Hold a Star Trek 50th Anniversary celebration
- Eric … content with who we have, but happy that we had a book program and would be happy to continue with it, proud of the videos before they even exist
- Brandon … optimistic that the videos might follow from the blogging practice as we seek content for it, ambivalent toward the book program, attracted to the idea of more people like us but repelled by the logistics of doing the program
- Ben … attracted wonderful to have more members, frightened of rejection if we approach people directly, excited to work on video where you were holding me accountable to getting it finished, confused about how the book program is supposed to help exactly
Four down, five to go
Evaluation
- Eric … I love these calls, I love hearing your thoughts on things and seeing how they either echo or complement mine.
- Ben … I like exploring future possibilities because it allows me to imagine cool stuff without having to do the hard work of actually making it happen
- Brandon … I feel good because I can feel the core of my SolSeed motivation spinning up, after a long slow period
Closing Blessing
We came together to do the work, despite the obstacles that block our passions from feeling realizable. May we continue to stoke the fires of our passions until we can turn that into action that overcomes obstacles to realizing our dreams. -- Blessed Be