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Your enterprise as a zone of liberation
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Self, partners and workers
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Adapting workplaces for
- Single parents
- Gig workers
- Portfolio folks
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Workers learn whole system
- enables replication
- decreases divisions
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With ecosocial functions
- Gesturing towards a regenerative future
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Comfortable
- No breaking-in (meaning initially hurtful)
- History of footbinding
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Colourful
- Contradicting sober protestant ethics
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Robust and Repairable
- against planned obsolescence
- generation of waste
- and "oh, no shopping for shoes again!"
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On becoming a 'high-agency generalist'
- Learning whole systems, not ONLY specialisms
- Developing design thinking capacities
- Mindflex rather than mindset
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Seeing self in relation to changing big systems
- Millions of small alternatives
- Specialism on it's own is The Patrix at work
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Low incomes for some time likely
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Healthy resilience training
- Learn 'buen vivir'
- Grow your own
- Enclosures!
- May need discharge (RC) to help with this
- Strong suggestion for Commitment Pooling
- Solidarity with Majority World
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Autoethnography
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Andrew learns trading skills
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Using Case Studies
- Context specific
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The competence ladder
- I don't know what I don't know
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Oh, now I know that I don't know diddily squat and had better get a mentor who does know about this
- But still do my own thinking according to values and goals
- Now I feel like I know what I am doing (but remain open to pivot potential)
- I've forgotten what a steep learning curve I had to go through to reach a sense of competence
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Mentors
- Small is Beautiful - E.F Schumacher
- and now - Small Farm Future - Chris Smaje
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Helpful capacities to develop
- Casinoistic
- Empirical
- Sensate
- Lover of 'the books'
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Some consequences
- Vibrant, flexible, adaptable local economies
- Personal resilience
- Confident around becoming competent across multiple fields (transferable skills)
- Experientially anchored intuition