Casey Gollan @caseyg@social.coop
👋 I am going to try posting here more — specifically about all the stuff I’ve been looking into regarding cooperatives, governance, and building organizations
"Alignment" is a big topic in management literature -- a business in which everyone is aligned with the mission/vision is more effective. Quantities of literature and countless workshops offer solutions to this problem. But typically profit maximization is assumed to be the fundamental goal (i.e., capital is the organizing principle). This does not serve everyone's interest. So alignment generates antagonism. Cooperative alignment starts with creative maladjustment to profit-maximization.
Anybody on Scuttlebutt? Is there a pub you're on? (Just joined so no idea how this works yet.)
I'm @Dioy8PPiLbOteNnQFtbazctHJ7fHZ62c0Bg8Cr551GM=.ed25519
Just joined Fritter, a peer-to-peer social feed application built with dat/beaker.
Started reading Jackson Rising (the next #readinggroup book) this morning: https://darajapress.com/catalog/jackson-rising-the-struggle-for-economic-democracy-and-self-determination-in-jackson-mississippi
social.coop reading group
Realized — after a #readinggroup convo on digital commons, and the energy people put into open source projects — that I wasn't yet backing @Gargron's Patreon
Now I am! 👍 Thanks to everyone who makes and maintains this thing.
#ReadingGroup discussion starting now, here! https://meet.jit.si/socialcoop
To me @davidbollier is one of the most cogent teachers on the commons out there. Hear him interviewed by @thenextsystem: https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/episode-17-social-transformation-through-commons-w-david-bollier
Last time I played around with Mastodon a few months ago I found it missing a bunch of
critical features...
Returning here to an updated version, it's now easy to pin timelines of hashtags like #readinggroup and make lists of users, so I can imagine I'll be using this a bunch more.
A bit late to joining in, but started reading Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radical yesterday & got up through Ch. 1
(Oh yeah, and I found out about this site from @dphiffer)
Hi, I'm Casey! 👋
I'm an artist, teacher, designer and web developer based in Brooklyn, NY.
Interested in learning more about the history & future of cooperative structures, especially around higher education, distributed collaboration, durational organizing + activism.
You can find me online at my personal site (http://cag.wiki), my work site (http://hire.caseyagollan.com), and on twitter (http://twitter.com/caseyg).
—excited to be here + to jump into some discussions soon.
