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Sustain episode 19: "Recovering Software Engineer to a Believer in Open Source with Gunner"

General / uncategorized notes

  • Live events as a way to gauge impact from the NGO/non-profit success metric P.O.V.

  • Think about sustainability as governance, inclusion, and decision-making

  • Power dynamics cannot be denied in tech

    • Bring politics into the office, they are already there!

Cognitive dissonance and equitable knowledge transactions

  • Radically different way of approaching teaching and getting information and ideas across

  • Value of interpersonal communication

  • Right level of human openness to advance technical and intellectual openness

Strategies to bridge hard conversations / power dynamics:

  • "Free negotiation"

    • Asking in advance what people want to get out of a topic or event (understand expectations)

    • Begin negotiations to calibrate wild expectations to the same page, but also inviting self-awareness to power dynamics by those with power

    • Invoke collective and stated outcomes as leverage to give up some power

  • "Hallucination creation"

    • Higher state of readiness

    • Guarantees nothing, but doing best to focus down to essential set of topics best discussed in person

    • Set frame for discussions that is equitable and inclusive, instead of defensive or ad hoc

Self-obsolescence

  • Ultimate measure of success: If you don’t see this, you are not part of success

  • Empowerment in others to build sustainability

  • What are you really going to leave behind at the end?

  • Net effect over ego effect

"Control takers" and "love bringers"

  • Control takers act out of ego, self-promotion, advance their goals and objectives, center their work

  • Love bringers ("collectivists" or "group allies") think of group outcomes, broader experience, empowering others to have a voice

  • Push power to people who in turn are trying to push power to others (what it means to give real-time equity in a conversation, in a dialogue)

"Give a shit" coefficient

  • Facilitative processes and inversion of power as ways to bring about change

"Technology last"

  • Focus on tech and content

  • Instead, think of sustainability and however you define it where you are

  • Things that get the least attention are most important

Community aspects

  • Open source projects that failed to model for success

  • Project took off, but hadn’t thought about governance, goals, community identity