Good People Are Not Enough
A collective does not become collaborative just because good people are in the same room
Rizom is not a traditional team
- more freedom
- more emergence
- more possibility
More possibility, but also
- more ambiguity
- more invisibility
- more dependence on chance
Teams work because people know who knows what
In Rizom, too much stays invisible
- what someone brings
- what they are looking for
- what they are working on
- where collaboration might exist
The bottleneck is not talent. The bottleneck is legibility
Rizom Brains can help the collective become more knowable to itself
Legibility first. Coordination next
- Brains make collaboration easier to see
- agent-to-agent interaction could make it easier to activate
The question is not whether Rizom has good people
The question is whether collaboration can find us
What would make collaboration less accidental in Rizom?