<aside> 🦚 Cat: As the book kindly suggests, I'm not reading the frameworks in order — rather, by the ones that are most interesting, or piqued my interest from a brief skim. As we converse more we'll start to make it through all of them.

After finishing, I want to create a similar mock structure, similar to after reading the Teaming chapter of beyond sticky notes; co-design for real: mindsets, methods & movements, in combination with Jenny's dependency chart

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I read the introduction first to get a bit of scope on the book...

• Introduction

I then read through all of the framework titles and really just judging by name, Do-Ocracy was the one that interested me the most. This is partially due to Isaac's work with Protect Democracy (I totally assumed that do-ocracy was a "democracy" play-on-words)

• Do-ocracy

After reading this first one, I thought...

• The practitioner examples in Do-ocracy feel a lot like Plot Twisters, so I'm interested to read other frameworks and see if it's just this framework, in which case I'd be very interested in diving into other "Do-ocracies" — otherwise, we'll have to explore a bit more.
• I really like the structure of how they've summarised all the frameworks. Core values, membership, structure, process, practitioners, governance.
  • The similar structure is inherent for book consistency, but also allows for comparison, to better pick out how the different frameworks can interact and combine.

Next, I decided to read Circles because we've talked a bit about "holarchy"... and on the surface, Circles comes closest to holarchy in my mind.

• Circles

I'm starting to feel fried, it's past 11pm here. But, circles was an interesting choice - beyond the ideal structures I felt in regard to the Plot Twisters project circles, it seems like circles are centred around team-like interaction and accountability — and beyond the PT internal projects team, I haven't thought about how external studio projects would interact.

Excited to see how juries intersects with digital juries: a civics-oriented approach to platform governance

• Jury

I started reading the benevolent dictator, but it seems partially like what Jenny was doing before now. Plot Twisters is evolving beyond the benevolent dictator. I feel this way because:

"The benevolent dictator has authority and can change the group’s governance as necessary. The benevolent dictator can invite participants to help with managing the group. When the group is sufficiently mature, the benevolent dictator will establish a more inclusive structure."

I read this and was like "yup, that's Plot Twisters." Jenny and I have talked a bit before about my relationship to Plot Twisters last year — long story short, because I was getting paid, I saw myself as a consultant to Jenny, until possessive behaviour due to investing time, energy, and passion into PT crept into me, leading to some misunderstandings and conflict with Jenny.

Nonetheless, I saw Jenny as the "benevolent dictator" because this was her project, and she was giving me her resources, and she was also the one predominantly managing the Slack, Notion, and other ways we communicate. That's all changing now. We're evolving away.

Especially since now Jenny is looking to establish a radically inclusive structure...

"If participants are not happy with the benevolent dictator’s leadership, they may voice their concerns or leave the group"