The Tao of WAO

Ramble chat season :) In this episode Doug and Laura discuss corporatizing learning and credentialing, volunteerism and the fact that all the answers are already out there.

Laura and Doug speak with the author of Radical Technologies: The design of everyday life, Adam Greenfield. A Verso author, Adam has a new book coming out called Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World on Fire Adam Greenfield: https://speedbird.wordpress.com/ Favourite book: Stephen Mitchell translation of Tao Te Ching: https://stephenmitchellbooks.com/translations-adaptations/tao-te-ching/ Lifehouses - https://speedbird.wordpress.com/2023/04/10/the-lifehouse-distributed-community-support-centers-for-the-long-emergency/ https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/from-churches-to-lifehouses Climate change and doomerism - https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/111942463874510426 Bruce Sterling - "Viridian Green" thinking/design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viridian_design_movement Arcosanti - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti AI and Object Horror - https://mastodon.social/@apike/111939446130457407 AI and pattern recognition - https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/111952644538668726 Support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen

In this episode, Laura and Doug lament the crashing of their Etherpad server and chat about tools they use for knowledge management. Support the Tao of WAO at https://opencollective.com/weareopen

In this episode of the Tao of WAO podcast, Laura Hilliger and Doug Belshaw discuss a range of topics including the Six Degrees of Wikipedia tool, feminism and the divergence of Gen Z's political views by gender, conspiracy theories and Taylor Swift

In the ninth season of the Tao of WAO podcast, Doug Belshaw and Laura Hilliger casually discuss their personal technology use, ranging from e-readers and work devices to gaming, and touch upon broader topics such as AI's impact on jobs and unique websites like the German customs auction platform. They note a trend of professionals, including themselves, experiencing job market shifts, potentially influenced by AI integration in various industries. The episode ends with Doug's suggestion to the audience to engage with the podcast through social media, reviews, or direct contact for work opportunities or feedback.

This season of the podcast looked at the future of new literacies as part of a submission to the Winter 2023 edition of the Journal for Media Literacy. Our guest host for the season is Ian O'Byrne https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiobyrne/ Support this podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen

Speaking with Kay Oddone on the future of Media Literacy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/koddone/ Elucidating key concepts, terminologies, and the present landscape of media and information literacy. Talking about the critical need for a progressive approach in these disciplines. Support this podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen

Speaking with Helen Beetham on the future of Media Literacy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-beetham/ Weaving the concept of Intersectionality and Transdisciplinarity with media literacies, emphasising how different social identities interplay in unique experiences and perspectives in media and information literacy, and underscoring the integration of these literacies with various academic disciplines and professional sectors. Support this podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen

Speaking with Roz Hussin on the future of Media Literacy. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rozhussin/ This podcast series, accompanied by a comprehensive written article, aims to illuminate a diverse and inclusive perspective on media and information literacy, exploring the intricate intersections of technology, culture, and society. Support this podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen

Dialogue with experts focusing on the themes of Race, Gender, AI, and Geographic Location & Language/Localisation. Each expert delves into how these areas influence and shape the future trajectories of media and information literacy. Support this podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen

This season of the podcast is looking at the future of new literacies as part of a submission to the Winter 2023 edition of the Journal for Media Literacy. Our guest host for the season is Ian O'Byrne https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiobyrne/ Support this podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen

Support our podcast: https://opencollective.com/weareopen Join our bookclub: https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao More about us: https://weareopen.coop In this episode, we chat a little bit about what literacy means and how our perception of it shifts and changes as technologies advance. We start to unpick AI literacy and get ready for Season 8, which will be a partial submission to the Journal of Media Literacy. Links: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2023/03/18/ai-literacy/ https://www.laurahilliger.com/models/deconstructing-power-in-the-age-of-ai/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_orality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan https://hackeducation.com https://www.wired.com/story/fanfiction-omegaverse-sex-trope-artificial-intelligence-knotting/ https://dynomight.net/ducks/ https://ailiteracy.fyi

In this episode we speak with Krystal Rawls, the Program Leader and Storyteller currently directing the Cal State University Dominguez Hills Workforce Integration Network. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book https://www.linkedin.com/in/professorrawls/ https://toby-89881.medium.com/explode-on-impact-cba283b908cb

Today's guest is Matt Jukes, a self-described 'product person' who just left the position of Head of Profession for Product Management at the UK government's Department for Business and Trade. He's got a really useful newsletter called Public Service Internet jobs and is an all-round interesting person. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links https://www.jukes.ie/ https://tinyletter.com/jukesie https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjukes/ https://digitalbydefault.com/2023/05/21/dc-days/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mjukes_five-year-anniversary-of-my-dumbest-work-activity-7079159577564303360-F8qE https://digitalbydefault.com/2023/06/04/2023-ambitions-story-so-far/

https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Inspiration for this episode from Nita Farahany on Undivided Attention, The Battle for your Brain. https://your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com/episodes/protecting-our-freedom-of-thought-with-nita-farahany-_HAu6pb4 Deconstructing power in the age of AI: https://www.laurahilliger.com/models/deconstructing-power-in-the-age-of-ai/

Today's guests are Tim Riches founding director of Navigatr and Omid Mufeed, CTO at Navigatr. We're talking about their history, open badge technology and new AI improvements in the world of badging and credentialling Links https://www.navigatr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-riches-a784792/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/omufeed/

Today's guests are Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones from The Curious Advantage podcast. They are both co-founders of The Ludic Group, a highly successful business consultancy and have worked with companies such as Novartis and Coca-Cola. They are the authors of several books, including The Curious Advantage, and Digital Humans! Links https://www.curiousadvantage.com/ https://ludicgroup.com/ Garrick: "in Bocca" series from 1970s https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/195510/il-buco-stories-and-recipes

This is part 2 of Co-op Lessons. Doug and Laura chat with fellow We Are Open Co-op founding member, John Bevan about the lessons learned over the last 7 years of running a cooperative. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links https://wiki.weareopen.coop/en/guidelines/running-a-project https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/meetings-course/

In this 2 part episode, Doug and Laura chat with fellow We Are Open Co-op founding member, John Bevan about the lessons learned over the last 7 years of running a cooperative. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication https://outlandish.com/workshops/reframing-conflict/ FONT: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2023/03/08/font-and-nvc/ https://outlandish.com/blog/abi-is-stepping-down-from-being-a-member-of-outlandish/

Laura & Doug talk to John Atherton, cooperative expert and the Project Organiser for workers.coop. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links: CoTech: https://www.coops.tech/ Workers.coop: https://workers.coop ICA structure (like the UN for co-ops): https://ica.coop/en/whats-co-op/co-operative-identity-values-principles https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/italian-region-30-gdp-comes-cooperatives John Atherton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnatherton/ https://www.uk.coop/start-new-co-op/find-adviser/john-atherton

Laura & Doug talk about community and content and a grab bag of other themes close to the cooperative world and the work of WAO. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links The Art of Community [IMAGE] https://blog.weareopen.coop/the-art-of-community-cultivating-online-connections-738cc90b0a39 TWiT - https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/925?autostart=false Mastodon blog post: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/ Doug's toot: https://social.coop/@dajb/110293920668304301 Dealing with criticism in your open source community/project (Laura's post) https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/8/what-to-do-when-nobody-participates How to manage feedback in your open project: https://opensource.com/open-organization/21/7/manage-feedback-open-project Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Bluesky: https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/29/23702979/bluesky-twitter-elon-musk-jack-dorsey-chrissy-teigen-aoc-dril-decentralized Moderation: https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/21/bluesky-moderation-new-features/ Vinay Gupta talk (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5o-ughyD8

Today we're pleased to speak with Emily Goligoski, the Head of Research at Charter. Emily is wicked smart and thinking about the future of work, what we really need from work, mentorship in the workplace and so much more. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links: https://www.emilygoligoski.com/ https://www.charterworks.com/ Books: https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao Some of the research we discuss: https://www.charterworks.com/charter-research-mentorship-remote-hybrid/ https://www.charterworks.com/charter-business-leaders-survey-working-arrangements/ A couple of random related posts: https://blog.weareopen.coop/bring-your-full-self-to-work-day-7efbaea914f1 https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2017/8/reverse-mentoring-it-right-it

Today we talk to Micky Metts, a Cooperative Consultant and speaker, and Melissa Bingham, a privacy, security and ethical tech advocate. https://opencollective.com/weareopen https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book Links: https://agaric.coop/ https://communitybridge.com/privacyworkshops https://www.meet.coop/ https://mayfirst.coop/en/ https://www.instagram.com/theconscioustechpivot/ https://www.instagram.com/TheMelissaExperience/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa--bingham/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickymetts/ https://workers.coop

Laura and Doug reflect on the season and share loads of thoughts about the fediverse migration, content warnings and more in this recap episode. Support our work > https://opencollective.com/weareopen Join the book club > https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao

Today we talk to Julie Keane and Mark Otter from Participate.com – a platform and service designed to support and operationalize Communities of Practice. https://www.participate.com/ Books (check out our new Book Club: https://literal.club/club/tao-of-wao/book ) Anne Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Underworld by Don DeLillo Power Broker by Robert A. Caro The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Links Keep Badges Weird https://badges.community Keep Badges Weird badges: https://app.participate.com/pages/community-faq Open Badges: https://openbadges.org/ W3C Verifiable Credentials - VC-EDU: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/vc-ed/ Value Cycles: https://wao.wtf/gallery/985r0dyrz7 Bob Mortimer - Train Guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VoHdpj2ZA

Today we're talking with Anne Hilliger, a collaborator studying media education and the lead author of We Are Open Co-op's new course on Feminist Pedagogy. Anne's favourite books: Invisible Women Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake Feminism Is For Everybody, Especially Educators! https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/fife/ Links https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/swedish-government-scraps-countrys-pioneering-feminist-foreign-policy https://kotaku.com/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-ther-5910857 https://opensource.com/open-organization/17/11/privilege-walk-exercise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I3wJ7pJUjg

Laura and Doug have a chat with Pedram Parasmand, a workshop designer, leadership coach, team builder and consultant. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedramparasmand/ https://theskillslab.com Ped's favourite books: - Fiction: '1984' by George Orwell - Non-fiction: 'The Art of Possibility' by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander

Today we're talking to Aaron Hirtenstein, an organisational development advisor, collaborator, and cooperative badass. https://twitter.com/shepherdstone21 https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-hirtenstein-5862032a/ Aaron's books: 'The Count of Monte Cristo' by Alexandre Dumas 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth, An Equal Music Collins guide to Mushrooms Links Building OUT: https://outlandish.com/building-out/ Open Food Network: https://openfoodnetwork.org/

Welcome to Season 5! The season kicks off with guest Elizabeth Godwin, the Global Lead, Digital Learning and Architecture at Greenpeace International https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-musar-godwin/ Books - Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) - Fire Island (Hulu) - new adaptation Notes Honey & Mumford - https://www.eln.co.uk/blog/honey-and-mumford-learning-styles

Our introduction to Season 5 of the Tao of WAO!

Both seasoned speakers and facilitators, Laura & Doug chat about reentering in real life events. Get tips on preparing and running sessions, participating in them, networking and even event recovery in this episode. Links Support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen Badge Summit: https://www.thebadgesummit.com/ https://blog.weareopen.coop/keep-badges-weird-helping-people-understand-the-badges-landscape-79cc8cf7281 https://www.laurahilliger.com/facilitating-speaking/ https://dougbelshaw.com/speaking/ https://www.laurahilliger.com/media-kit/ https://www.laurahilliger.com/leadership/leading-groups-personalities/

Today's guest is futurist, author and educator Bryan Alexander. Bryan is currently thinking loads about the intersection of education, technology and climate – so regular listeners will know why we're so excited to have him on. Bryan Alexander's sites: https://twitter.com/BryanAlexander/ http://futureofeducation.us/ https://bryanalexander.org/ https://ftte.us/ His books: Academia Next https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12088/academia-next Coming Soon: Universities on Fire by Bryan Alexander! Bryan's favourite book(s) war & peace tolstoy: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600 a thousand plateaus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Plateaus Other links: Age of Stupid https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/ Andreas Malm on how to blow up a pipeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline

Support our podcast! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Our guest Heather Leson is open advocate and the Digital Innovation Lead at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherleson/ https://twitter.com/HeatherLeson/ Heather's favourite book(s) Global Soul -https://bookshop.org/books/the-global-soul-jet-lag-shopping-malls-and-the-search-for-home/9780679776116 Invisible Women - https://bookshop.org/books/invisible-women-data-bias-in-a-world-designed-for-men/9781419735219 Currently Reading: Behave - Robert Sapolsky https://bookshop.org/books/behave-the-biology-of-humans-at-our-best-and-worst/9780143110910 Opening Up Social Impact-Focused Organizations https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6917798799012712449/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-organization/open-perspectives/main/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations.pdf https://github.com/open-organization/open-perspectives/raw/main/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations/opening-up-social-impact-focused-organizations.epub Apps and courses Komoot https://www.komoot.com Applied Behavioral Design course https://www.behavioraldesign.academy/courses/applied-behavioral-design 50 shades of open: https://firstmonday.org/article/view/6360/5460 What we talk about when we talk about open https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/open-course/

Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen In this episode Laura and Doug start chatting about Self Hosting IT and end up talking politics, perspectives, behaviour and more. - dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/05/23/jitsi-sociocracy/ - wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Fifty_Shades_of_Open - learnwith.weareopen.coop/courses/open-course/ - raw.githubusercontent.com/open-organiz…izations.pdf - app.optery.com/login

We talk about identity, civic society and how Twitter isn't a public square. Support our podcast! https://opencollective.com/weareopen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall - https://clalliance.org/blog/curate-or-be-curated-why-our-information-environment-is-crucial-to-a-flourishing-democracy-civil-society/ - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/04/25/highlights-from-the-internet-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/ The 4 charges: Internet is addictive, Shaping life through an algorithm, No democratic oversight, universal surveillance - Andy Clark "Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science" - McLuhan's 4 laws - how media/tech affect society: https://social-epistemology.com/2012/11/11/gregory-sandstrom-laws-of-media-the-four-effects-a-mcluhan-contribution-to-social-epistemology/ - https://ambiguiti.es/sitting-with-ambiguity/ - https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/04/26/twitter-musk-thoughts/ - https://www.laurahilliger.com/models/cyberspace-and-the-%e2%80%9cvirtualitatslagerung%e2%80%9d/

(Content warning) In this episode we speak with Kayleigh Walsh, an Outlandish colleague, about restorative justice, trust and more. This podcast season is currently unfunded. You can support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen. Kayleigh's favourite book(s) - Richard Powers the overstory - House of Spirits Isabella Allende Restorative Justice - Circles SE: https://circlessoutheast.org.uk/ - Adrienne Maree Brown: https://adriennemareebrown.net/ - Building OUT: https://outlandish.com/building-out/

WAO stuff Learn with WAO launch https://blog.weareopen.coop/learn-with-we-are-open-co-op-8a4dd9f31874 Audience Ikigai https://blog.weareopen.coop/audience-ikigai-be0cebe4cea How to set Open Standards: https://blog.weareopen.coop/howto-set-open-standards-for-your-project-3e4aa1f57e1b Architectures of Participation https://weareopen.coop/aop Emergent Community building https://blog.weareopen.coop/emergent-community-building-a35f9431d8a https://Badges.community Newsletters https://thoughtshrapnel.com/newsletter/ Explaining ideas - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/02/01/explaining-ideas/ Check your perspective - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/02/04/check-your-perspective/ Decentralising the description of skills with OSMT - https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/02/03/skills-osmt/ https://www.laurahilliger.com/newsletter/ Recommended newsletters Dense Discovery: https://www.densediscovery.com/ Supergranular: https://supergranular.substack.com/ Memex Dan Hon Orbital Operations Just Two Things Anne Helen Peterson: https://annehelen.substack.com/ Sentiers University of Winds Aaron Davis Other stuff Bonfire Zappa project - https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/zappa_report Boring crypto definitions - https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2022/01/28/boring-crypto-definitions/ Sitting with ambiguity for innovation projects (or life in general!) - https://ambiguiti.es/sitting-with-ambiguity/ 8 tips for creating cultural change in your organization > https://opensource.com/open-organization/15/11/8-tips-cultural-change-organization Switching from Telegram to Signal - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2022/03/07/switching-from-telegram-to-signal/

Today we talk to our guest, Adam Procter, Interim Head of the new Department Art & Media Technology at University of Southampton about social impact games, game design and more. Support the Tao of WAO: https://opencollective.com/weareopen/ Adam Procter: https://discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/procter/ https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/feb/21/spawn-of-wordle-five-of-the-best-riffs-on-the-hit-word-game Adam's sites and tools: https://adamprocter.co.uk https://nodenogg.in/ https://discursive.adamprocter.co.uk/2021/07/06/wayfinder-game.html https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/games-design-and-art-degree-ba https://www.instagram.com/gamesdesignart/ Social Impact games: https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-can-gaming-make-us-go-greener-12372861 https://playing4theplanet.org/news/ggj21-gamers-to-act-for-nature/ https://webpages.tuni.fi/gamification/gamiforest-coffee-talks/ Daybreak https://www.daybreakgame.org https://medium.com/climate-crisis-the-game The homelessness game and others from Adam's students: https://kompile.co.uk/university/ PlayMob - take UN's SDGs and see if there's a way to influence design https://www.forbes.com/sites/afdhelaziz/2019/08/09/the-power-of-purpose-how-jude-ower-and-playmob-are-using-videogames-for-good/?sh=338b9d263791 The list of books Adam mentions: - teaching to transgress (bell hooks) - deschooling society (Ivan Ilich) >"Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting." — Ivan Illich - passion projects peers and play (Mitch Resnick) - Dune - Fight club (true I picked the weakest one :) - the monsters of education technology (Audrey Watters) - surveillance captalism (Shoshana Zuboff) - Nudge (Richard H. Thaler) - Catch 22 - The Catcher in the Rye - The design of everyday things (Don Norman) In a short commentary posted to her website in 2004, science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that the concept of technology is “consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialized technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.” Rather, she argued, technology should be understood more expansively, as the way “society copes with physical reality… the active human interface with the material world.” Technology, as the sum of “what we can learn to do.” - https://newpublic.org/article/1610/introduction

This episode we chat about misinformation and disinformation. We explore some useful frameworks about information and critical thinking too. Support us! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Fake news. It’s complicated. > https://firstdraftnews.org/articles/fake-news-complicated/ MisInfoCon > https://misinfocon.com/ The archive shows the most popular posts: https://misinfocon.com/archive Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/poi3.236 Memes --> https://misinfocon.com/meme-wars-f03dc6db471d Birds aren't real > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/podcasts/the-daily/why-would-anybody-claim-that-birds-arent-real.html The Zappa project > https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_cos/ Joe Rogan has responded to the protests against Spotify over his podcast > https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/npr/npr-story/1076891070

This episode explores verifiable credentials, blockchain identity management, the current badges landscape and some badges history too as we talk to our guest Kerri Lemoie, the Director, Digital Credentials Research & Innovation at Badgr. We LOVED recording this episode, so tell us if you liked listening to it! Support us! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Kerri Lemoie: https://kayaelle.medium.com/ Badgr: https://badgr.io/ Kerri's favourite book We make the road by walking: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104946.We_Make_the_Road_by_Walking

This episode explores the difference between groups and networks as we talk to our guest Alex Worrad Andrews from another cooperative in the CoTech network, Common Knowledge. This description makes no sense? Well, listen to the episode! Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen Alex Worrad Andrews https://alexworradandrews.com/ Common Knowledge: https://commonknowledge.coop/ What is Alex's favourite book? Flawless Consulting - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/685404.Flawless_Consulting We Are Open Co-op's membership policies: https://wiki.weareopen.coop/en/guidelines/membership What is a CoTech? https://coops.tech https://community.coops.tech/ The difference between Groups and Networks https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2006/09/23/the-difference-between-groups-and-networks/ https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=35839

Our first episode in Season 3 features the members (and our intern!) of We Are Open talking about their predictions for 2022 and our cooperative policy of "dormancy". What's the difference between a sabbatical and dormancy? Listen to find out! Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen The book we mention at the end: https://www.idler.co.uk/product/how-to-be-idle-paperback-signed-edition/ Missing something from the shownotes? Just reach out!

Here it is, the Tao of WAO Season 3 Trailer! Doug threatens to quit the podcast unless Laura answers enough questions correctly. Ok, let's settle this! https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/

Part two of our remote work episodefocused more on the day to day tools and processes that we use to work remotely. Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen How we work - some nerding out? https://usesthis.com/interviews/clay.shirky/ https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/ https://joplinapp.org/ https://medium.com/@LauraHilliger/tabby-mctabface-3bff8661ef70 https://ifttt.com Our gear for the podcast Laura - Focusrite preamp: https://focusrite.com/en/usb-audio-interface/scarlett/scarlett-2i2-studio - Speakers: Tannoy - Sony Bluetooth headphones Doug -Blue Snowball mic -Anker headphones "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "That having been said, I actually don't want a "dream setup." I know people who get everything in their work environment just so, but current optimization is long-term anachronism. I'm in the business of weak signal detection, so at the end of every year, I junk a lot of perfectly good habits in favor of awkward new ones. [...] Some of those changes stick, most don't, but since every tool switch involves a period of disorientation and sub-optimal use, I have to make myself be willing to bang around with things I don't understand until I do understand them. This is the opposite of a dream setup; the thing I can least afford is to get things working so perfectly that I don't notice what's changing in the environment anymore." (Clay Shirky)

Today we're talking about remote versus in person working and the tools, practices and processes that have helped us become pros at not going to the office. Support us! opencollective.com/weareopen Positive Feedback in Remote work > https://buffer.com/resources/building-deliberate-praise-remote-culture-6-methods-use-buffer Survey: Remote Workers Are More Disengaged and More Likely to Quit > https://hbr.org/2018/11/survey-remote-workers-are-more-disengaged-and-more-likely-to-quit Culture Study Anne Helen Peterson https://annehelen.substack.com/p/thats-a-big-poorly-camouflaged-red LEARNWITH WAO > https://learnwith.weareopen.coop The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Online Meetings: https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/meetings-course/

We talk to Kudzayi Ngwerume about her experience building movements and connecting people through creativity and passion. Support us! https://opencollective.com/weareopen Kudzayi Ngwerume on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kudzayi Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kudzayingwerume/ James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669846/giovannis-room-by-james-baldwin/# Culture-Shift :A solution for the creative sector https://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/02/culture-shift-brings-technology-creativity/ Calling all creative innovators in Africa, the environment needs you > https://creativitymarketing.org/blog/2018/03/01/africa/ Waking up to Idai. When extreme weather hits home https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/21556/waking-up-to-idai-when-extreme-weather-hits-home/

In this episode, Laura and Doug talk about recognising learning and pro-social behaviours with badges. They also chat about the Participate project they're collaborating on, Keep Badges Weird. https://thebadgesummit.com Why do we need to keep badges weird? Participate KBW - https://app.participate.com/communities/keep-badges-weird/62003f3f-a7ba-4f6a-990a-64d6f893016d Project board: https://trello.com/b/MA1Purq1/participate-kbw Participate: https://participate.com WAO's work: https://weareopen.coop/participate/ Technology innovation curve - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations Open Badges - https://openbadges.org Open Recognition - https://www.openrecognition.org Are badges and digital credentials just for helping people get jobs? IBM badges - https://www.ibm.com/skills/badges/ Badges for digital transformation - https://blog.weareopen.coop/badges-for-digital-transformation-7e9e1a17e714 4 benefits of Open Recognition Pathways - https://blog.weareopen.coop/4-benefits-of-open-recognition-pathways-a51c10a37633 Intern badges and self assigning - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yIt1_4GYGPazNFUsDumgDAtlcN8WrmK9mOcGEXfqZLY/edit#heading=h.85fnrjml1wgf Where's this all going next? Verifiable Credentials - https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model Social Verifiable Credentials - https://www.loom.com/share/53a4f6216a0e4af19b1724820e475fe3?sharedAppSource=personal_library Other stuff Getting started with digital badges -https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cq1MAO2ifqrZHByB7oGuQPZkb_61jNx_iPRbS_pcrcs/edit Badge Wiki - https://badge.wiki

Today we're talking to Jess Klein, a principal designer at Wikimedia and a colleague and friend for...well, listen to find out how long we've had the pleasure of working with Jess! This podcast season is currently unfunded. You can support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at http://opencollective.com/weareopen See our website: weareopen.coop Links and mentions: Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher https://designsmarts.co/books/technically-wrong/ Facebook aware of Instagram’s harmful effect on teenage girls, leak reveals - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/14/facebook-aware-instagram-harmful-effect-teenage-girls-leak-reveals WAO's premortem exercise https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/tools/

Doug and Laura get into the weeds talking about various frameworks and un-frameworks. They also talk about uncamping, whatever that means. This podcast season is currently unfunded. You can support this podcast and other We Are Open projects and products at https://opencollective.com/weareopen See our website: https://weareopen.coop Our work in Frameworks: - Architecture of Participation: https://weareopen.coop/aop/ - Open Leadership Definition: https://theopenorganization.org/definition/open-leadership-definition/ The Open Leadership Definition outlines the mindsets and behaviors that distinguish open leaders from other types of leaders. Synthesizing pre-existing models, collective research, expert interviews, and firsthand experience, this collaboratively written document details the ways leading with open organization principles helps teams become more engaged, accountable, innovative, and reflective. - Github repo: https://github.com/open-organization/open-leadership-definition - Digital Literacies for a Post-COVID World: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1op4zC1xeVCShJ0xGnSow526f-G1hPbYpItX9nDZmZUI/edit#slide=id.g8818d2db1e_0_1087 - 8 Essential Elements: https://dougbelshaw.com/thesis/ - https://blogs.rockyview.ab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DigitalLiteracy2.png - Laura's thesis: https://www.laurahilliger.com/bad-title-thesis/ - Web Literacy Map: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/WebLiteracyMap - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/web-literacy/ Other links - SDGs: https://sdgs.un.org/goals - Hardcore history: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/

A new season of the Tao of WAO is coming! Available wherever you get your podcasts! Check out our landing page: https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/podcast/ Become a supporter: https://opencollective.com/weareopen/contribute/support-the-tao-of-wao-29762

In this episode, Laura and Doug discuss learning design and participatory methodologies. ## Support us and send us feedback! This episode marks the end of Series/Season 1 of the Tao of WAO. We'd love to hear your thoughts! Send us a note on Twitter or to podcast@weareopen.coop. Support us via https://opencollective.com/weareopen Learning Design Keep Badges Weird project post: https://blog.weareopen.coop/participation-thats-what-s-gonna-save-the-human-race-pete-seeger-ae57ba8370a5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectivism the future is multiplayer > https://future.a16z.com/hybrid-anxiety-optimism-future-of-work/ Semantics are fun https://www.laurahilliger.com/leadership/the-road-to-term-tbd-semantics-are-fun/ Virtualitätslagerung > https://www.laurahilliger.com/models/cyberspace-and-the-%e2%80%9cvirtualitatslagerung%e2%80%9d/ Participatory methodologies Pedagogy of Discomfort: https://www.laurahilliger.com/writing/ohm2013-part-2-observing-segmentation-pedagogy-of-discomfort-and-impromptu-singing/ Partcipatory exercises for WAO > https://learnwith.weareopen.coop/tools/ More from Laura > https://laurahilliger.github.io/learning-materials/ The Most Dangerous Censorship - https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/on-censorship-pt-1 The Handbook of Handbooks for Decentralised Organising - https://hackmd.io/@yHk1snI9T9SNpiFu2o17oA/Skh_dXNbE?type=view Other things: There’s a word for everything - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2021/06/22/theres-a-word-for-everything/ Laura's newsletter: https://laurahilliger.com/newsletter Doug's newsletter: https://thoughtshrapnel.com/newsletter Quote “Emotional content can change the formation and recollection of a memory event, consistent with findings in both human and animal studies. Compared to neutral items, humans remember better emotionally arousing information, including emotionally charged stories, film clips, pictures, and words. “ Dr. Luiz Pessoa http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Cognition_and_emotion

Support our podcast! You can find us at https://opencollective.com/weareopen Our guest: John Evans - https://code-operative.co.uk - @dr_the_evidence on twitter - @KingMob@refactorcamp.org Co-op links - Money: https://wiki.weareopen.coop/en/money - Membership: https://wiki.weareopen.coop/en/membership - Sociocracy: https://www.sociocracyforall.org - Outlandish: https://outlandish.com/workshops/ - Consent-based decision making: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2020/08/25/consent-decision-making/ Meta Systematic - Robert Kegan: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674445888 - Explainer here: https://medium.com/@NataliMorad/how-to-be-an-adult-kegans-theory-of-adult-development-d63f4311b553 - SOLO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_observed_learning_outcome IP on the vaccine - https://twitter.com/epilepticrabbit/status/1391686950571200513

Digital Detox * The Useless Agony of Going Offline (or, as Laura retitled, "Feelings I've never had.") > https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-useless-agony-of-going-offline * Remote workers work longer, not more efficiently - https://www.economist.com/business/2021/06/10/remote-workers-work-longer-not-more-efficiently * The State of Independence 2021 - https://contra.com/freelance-industry-report-2021/ * 4 day work week helps fight climate change > https://www.fastcompany.com/90641406/need-another-reason-to-switch-to-a-4-day-work-week-it-helps-fight-climate-change * How to recover from burnout - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2021/06/06/how-to-recover-from-burnout/ * How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives - https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2021/06/03/pandemic-silver-linings/ Quotation of the week “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” ― Rachel Carson *Pronounceable email address - https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2021/06/12/a-point-based-system-for-email-address-pronounceability/

SHOW NOTES Episode 03: Geriatric Millennials What we're working on - Participate KBW: https://trello.com/b/MA1Purq1/participate-kbw - How we use Trello: https://twitter.com/WeAreOpenCoop/status/1394303506081886211?s=20 - Gradu.al - social learning: https://gradu.al - Co-op day: https://pad.weareopen.coop/p/coopdays-Q2-2021 - Catalyst Long Covid brief: https://thecatalyst.smapply.io/prog/long_covid/?brief=Creating+a+library+of+assets+for+organisations+supporting+people+with+Long+COVID - WAO turns five: https://blog.weareopen.coop/wao-turns-five-30747f4df0f9 Games and creativity - Terms & Conditions game: https://termsandconditions.game - UX testing thing: https://cantunsee.space - Richard Scarry reinvented: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/522628731757862228/ - Gitcoin shitposter: https://cryptocurrencyjobs.co/marketing/gitcoin-meme-artist-shitposter-community-manager/ - TikTok creativity: https://twitter.com/GAdam56/status/1391596927058382849 Generations - If you were born between 1977 and 1983, there’s a new name for you: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-were-born-between-1977-1983-theres-new-name-rafael-tercarolli - In the war between millennials and baby boomers we have forgotten about the work-hard, play-hard Generation X: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/millenials-generation-x-baby-boomers-a7570326.html - Why Generation X will save the web: https://webdevlaw.uk/2021/01/30/why-generation-x-will-save-the-web - Why the Hybrid Workforce of the Future Depends on the ‘Geriatric Millennial’: https://index.medium.com/why-the-hybrid-workforce-of-the-future-depends-on-the-geriatric-millennial-6f9ff4de1d23 (21 April 2021) Coins and concepts - Dan Hon's newsletter: https://newsletter.danhon.com - Coin Carbon Cap: https://coincarboncap.com - Live like a hydra: https://busterbenson.com/blog/2013/08-24-live-like-a-hydra Quotation of the week "[When] the available energy and resources can no longer maintain the existing level of complexity, the civilization begins to consume itself by borrowing from the future and feeding off the past, thereby preparing the way for an eventual implosion." (William Ophuls, quoted in 'How Everything Can Collapse')

SHOW NOTES Episode 02: Alone Time What we're working on - WAO site redesign: https://weareopen.coop (redesign) https://blog.weareopen.coop/wao-turns-five-30747f4df0f9 (blog) - Definition project (Catalyst): https://blog.weareopen.coop/thats-a-wrap-2c6bd649968c - Sector Challenge 9 (Catalyst): https://medium.com/sector-challenge-9-claiming-universal-credit - Extinction FYI: https://extinction.fyi - Privacy Garden: https://privacy.garden - 3 ways to gain control of your Twitter feed: https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2021/05/11/3-ways-to-gain-control-of-your-twitter-feed Books and concepts - How Everything Can Collapse(book: https://bookshop.org/books/how-everything-can-collapse-a-manual-for-our-times/9781509541393 - Value Proposition Design(book) https://www.strategyzer.com/books/value-proposition-design - Sociocracy: https://outlandish.com/workshop-sociocracy-and-better-decision-making Other mentions: * "Sustainable" NFT marketplace - https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/about * Buy and Sell Tweets - https://v.cent.co/ * Autism is a “disorder” only because the world is neurotypical - https://andarilhoacordado.medium.com/autism-is-a-disorder-only-because-the-world-is-neurotypical-45788160950c * Why the Most Intelligent People Love Spending Time Alone - https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/why-most-intelligent-people-love-spending-time-alone.html?cid=sf01003 Quotation of the week: "Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught." —Ai Weiwei

SHOW NOTES Episode 1: Cooperativism We're going to kick off the Tao of WAO with a podcast centered on one of our favourite-ISMs, Cooperativism. Over the coming episodes, we'll address other -isms, -ologies or -ations, we have loads of ideas for this segment, but cooperatism felt like a natural place to start. - What a co-operative is - Why they're radically different - How you can think a little differently about your work life Segments include: - What does it mean to be a Co-operative? - How do you form a co-operative? - Everything is derogatory - What we've been paying attention to Links we reference: - International Cooperative Alliance: https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/what-is-a-cooperative - Wikipedia List of co-ops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cooperatives - Companies House: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10150608 - STIR to action magazine: https://www.stirtoaction.com/ - Iceberg: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PDywu9nSAzgp877T0jmy4B_pRaWj2pw1osYGb4tYMZo/edit#slide=id.ga99302db4a_0_6 - Platform co-ops: https://platform.coop - Co-ops UK: https://www.uk.coop/start-new-co-op/support/start-platform-co-op/why-platform-co-ops Books & initiatives we talk about: - Ours to Hack and to Own: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ours-to-hack-and-to-own/ - https://www.idler.co.uk/product/how-to-be-idle-paperback-signed-edition/ - 4 day workweek: https://www.4dayweek.co.uk - Bullshit jobs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs