MetaView #29 - Coordination Through Alignment w/ Rob Morris
In this MetaView episode, peth talked to Rob Morris; a metamodernist, a game b player & a serial entrepreneur since the dotcom era - currently running FunDAOmental & Prismatik as well as advising & investing in several other projects along the way. His passion for technology and people, cooperative coordination and the metacrisis led to a deep conversation on these topics & the role that technology plays for humanity to move towards more positive outcomes.
“At a very high level I think that the way that humans get things done reflects what's advantageous in the environment that we find ourselves in and also in a broad sense reflects a gradual evolution of the perspectives that we collectively hold and how we approach things”, he says.
Morris refers broadly as The Death of Machiavelli to the shift from coordination by control and power to coordination by alignment. “What we want to do is not the things that don't work but explore the space of how we lean into unique advantages of essentially high autonomy approaches to coordination which requires supporting structure but not rigid structures, dynamic adaptive structures that essentially allow the sort of dynamic reforming of groups and coordination”. 29:31 - 30:00
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Some of the topics
Hierarchical coordination vs alignment based coordination
Coordination by control vs Coordination by alignment
SaaS software vs protocol style organizations
Network effect vs protectionism and monopoly, economy of scale
Coordination tension
The Mathew effect
Metacrisis & ways to address it
Meeting people’s needs to enable collective action
Sociocracy
Coordination failures