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2023-11-30 12:34:49
- I haven't written anything on my ANTILOG (blog) for several years;
- The last time I wrote, I was writing about the mechanism that my rock band was using to make decisions;
- I was just "laid off" from my position as lead guitarist and musical composer, organizer of harmony, melodic, and musical texture, as well as my position as main audio engineer overseeing work in the recording studio and jam space;
- Here is the last post I wrote, in its entirety, from January 13th, 2020, when we were just adding a new band member, the singer/rhythm guitarist;
- He had since been fully incorporated into the band and our democratic voting mechanism, but the other members decided they "no longer required my services" and I was "let go";
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2020-01-13 21:11:22
- In mid-December, I wrote about my band of three members and the consensus mechanism that we use when making decisions;
- Now we have been officially trying to incorporate a new member, a second guitarist, into the band;
- At least two of us are unsure but no one had yet fully rejected the new guitarist;
- As soon as one member sounds the alarm, we cancel future jam sessions and meetings with the new guitarist;
- I quote from my blog piece from mid-December:* We also have the same mechanism for adding new members to the band, because we've been talking about maybe getting a second guitarist;- It's entirely possible that our consensus mechanism worked when there were three members and ceased working when we were four. Some things don't scale well;
* Same as with every other kind of vote, if someone has even a doubt about this person, if we don't "feel" it.. because it all has to do with gut feeling, 100% gut feeling.. if we don't feel it, we veto PASS.. onto the next item in the interminable list of decisions to make when you're an organization.
2023-11-30 12:41:02
- So let's rewind a little;
- We had three members and a special voting mechanism where FOR EVERY DECISION, each of the three band members had a TOTAL VETO POWER (over any of the decisions we had to make as a band, which was an INTERMINABLE LIST OF DECISION!);
- Now, previous to my being "let go", we not only incorporated the fourth member into the band, but we incorporated him into our voting mechanism;
- Now we had FOUR MEMBERS (of the band) with ABSOLUTE VETO POWER;
- This means that if anyone didn't like anything about the music we were playing, about the other players, about the band, or about anything having to do with the recording of our FIRST ALBUM, they only had to LIFT THEIR HAND IN DISAPPROVAL, and everything we were deciding upon WAS OFFICIALLY SCRAPPED (never to return to again in the history of the universe!);
- This isn't exactly "democratic", but it IS a VOTING MECHANISM;
- It's just that it allowed us to MOVE MORE QUICKLY TOWARDS DECISIVE DECISIONS, in a group setting of GROUP COLLABORATION;
- There are BINARY DECISIONS that need to be made in GROUP COLLABORATION, to define and direct FUTURE ACTIONS IN THE SHARED WORKSPACE;
- These might be something like, "Do we keep SONG X or do we scrap it and move onto the next one?";
- These are BINARY DECISIONS/CHOICES, also referred to as "Either/Or" decisions, like the "leap of faith" of Soren Kierkegaard (more on that at a later date, possibly, possibly not, since I just had my official "coming out" as a fundamental Crypto-Kierkegaardian!);
- DICHOTOMOUS CHOICES like these, "Yes/No" decisions, require 1-bit of information in one's mind, if you will, regarding "what one's mind can attend to at any given time"; that is to say, in one's mind's attention bandwidth, a BINARY CHOICE only requires AT LEAST 1-bit;
- Apparently, the mind can attend to only "110 bits of information per second", according to Mihaly Csikszentmihályi's 2004 TED talk;
- This, I think, would technically be the BAUD RATE, or "symbol rate, which is one of the components that determine the speed of communication over a data channel.";
- In any case, our VOTING MECHANISM was optimal, since it allowed us to essentially take DECISIONS OUT OF THE MIX, i.e. creating a "decisionless process";
- That is to say, we still MADE DECISIONS, for all intents and purposes, it's just that - how can I put it? - we "took the decision out of decision";
- The Absolute Veto Power means we make the optimal decisions at any given time FOR THE FUTURE WELFARE AND CREATIVE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE GROUP (or "Creative Work-System");
- This avoids those "unhappy equilibrium states" that can occur in Group Collaborations and Their Shared Workspaces, what I call COLLABRIUM OR COLLABORATIVE EQUILIBRIUM (SEE: "Collabrium Theory");
- More on all of this at a later date (and I reserve the absolute right to never come back to this again, ever!);
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