Interview by Tim Armstrong with Rich Bartlett, Loomio cofounder…
Or “why I subverted my promise to myself never to write an essay with this title, let alone a listicle!”
As a programmer, part of my job is to spot ‘code smells’. Like being alert for musky over-ripeness somewhere in your fridge, or unwanted acridity of burning plastic coming from your computer, smells hint that nearby, something is amiss, and it’s probably going to get worse.
“The antidote to self-interest is to commit and to find cause. To commit to something outside of ourselves.” Peter Block
Update: We’ve recently improved this version of our financial model. You can read more details on our handbook.
I just stumbled across this post that I wrote in November 2010, nearly a year after Enspiral was born and it brought back a lot of memories. How odd it is that everything happened as it did, if I had read the script in advance I would never have believed it.
We recently adopted a new set of agreements to govern ourselves at Enspiral. The process of making the agreements and then living into them has caused some tensions as we learn how to grow our…
