Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast Building Scaleable Trust - Of Identity, Commons and Governance with Grace Rachmany of Sideways Earth
Use Membership Tiers To Signal Trust Levels
- Do design membership tiers (basic, trusted, council) and let groups signal those tiers to partners.
- Tiers let receiving groups decide what level of access or secrets to share with a visitor.
Prebriefing Saved An Eccentric Contractor Engagement
- Grace describes sending a brilliant but socially odd contractor to a client with full pre-briefing.
- Forewarning the client avoided panic and let the contractor deliver a perfect technical manual on deadline.
Rituals Encode Trust That Tech Can Mirror
- Many tribal social protocols (tattoos, rituals, rules) function as trust encoding and can be mimicked digitally.
- Grace points to religious and initiation protocols as examples of durable, machine-translatable trust.
"The ecological movement is the largest movement in human history, yet it is fragmented because it is using the "tools of the master" for coordination, resource sharing, and conflict resolution...While many technologists have created social networking technology, they have not succeeded in creating good coordination because social networking tools do not address enough of the primary coordination mechanics for scalable trust." Grace Rachmany: Sideways Earth on Github
Friend of the podcast, Grace Rachmany is a mother, a tech industry trouble shooter, author of over a hundred white papers and co-author of the book, 'So you've got a DAO: Handbook for Distributed and Connected Leadership'. She's Executive Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation and it's this that we're exploring today.
It's long been established on this podcast that the old paradigm is not fit for purpose and is, in fact, in the process of disintegrating beneath our feet.
We know we need to create communities of place, purpose and passion - but if we can do this, how do we find other communities to link with so we can:
- Scale from community to region. (based on shared action)
- Keep one another accountable for behaviors that reflect what we say our values are (people are also squishy when they say the word values).
- Scale behaviour change beyond a closed or Dunbar-number community to multiple communities.
- Scale actions and collaborations to regional levels without a hierarchical coordination structure.
- Coordinate actions and behaviors based on the commons we share, whether or not we share "values".
This is the missing link that is often overlooked as we craft a way forward to a world that works, and I'm so glad someone with Grace's outstanding intellect and depth of heart is exploring this.
And that she's willing to come here and talk about it.
So here we go: a wide, deep, full conversation on the missing link of scaleable trust. Enjoy!
Links
Grace's website
Grace on LinkedIn
Decentralized Identify Foundation
Grace on YouTube - co-creating the third attractor
Sideways Earth Website
Sideways Earth on Github
Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Governing a Commons
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