MetaView #29 - Coordination Through Alignment w/ Rob Morris

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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.

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

Resources:

• Rob Morris Twitter

• FunDAOmental Twitter

• Prismatik Twitter

• Prismatik Web

• Sociocracy

• The Death of Machiavelli by Rob Morris