Episodes
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
In this podcast, we dive into the shift towards a more decentralized and organic approach to city planning with Joni Baboci, an architect, planner, and urban enthusiast. We discuss how the modernist paradigm of deconstructing everything into individual parts and putting them back together linearly is becoming less relevant. Instead, we see a shift towards a more organic, bottom-up approach that looks at the city as a complex and multi-layered system.
Joni Baboci is the founder of Layer, a spatial orchestration platform that empowers teams to govern through tactics and patterns while leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has previously served as the General Director of Planning and Urban Development for the City of Tirana and the director of Atelier Albania, a structure of the Albanian government dealing with national and regional strategic planning. Joni has executed planning, design & development projects at different scales at the national, regional and local levels.
Joni shares his insights on how technological advancements such as AI and blockchain are enabling bottom-up processes in planning and thinking about cities. We also delve into the challenges of making these ideas practical and building a process of making them a reality. Joni highlights the importance of reinventing physical production through local value loops, and incentivizing the interconnection between urban and rural scapes.
We also discuss how DAOs and blockchain technology can improve local governance and participation, and how cities can invest in citizen-based entrepreneurship that let them decide how to perform a job or access a service rather than relying on a top-down approach.
Join us as we explore the potential of a more decentralized and organic approach to city planning with Joni Baboci.
Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/joni-baboci
Key highlightsÂ
👉 The static, modernist way of thinking and planning cities is changing.
👉 Looking at cities through a “pattern language”: from communities to subcultures to regions.
👉 Bureaucracy can help to make sure things do not move too fast.
👉 The physical city won’t be replaced by a virtual city or a network state any time soon.
👉 New technologies make it possible to scale governance both on a technical and geographical level.
👉 Communities should be able to make small bets on things that matter to them
Topics (chapters):
(00:00) Â Joni Baboci quote
(00:47) Â Joni Baboci introduction
(02:13) Â A Paradigm Shift Towards Humility in Organizing Cities and Space
(05:56) Â The Shift Towards Decentralized and Organic City Planning
(10:57) Â The Role of Cities in the Modern World: Cities as Labor Markets and More
(18:15) Â Exploring the Pros and Cons of Network Cities: Coexisting with Physical Cities
(23:13) Â The Future of Cities and the Interconnection between Urban and Rural Landscapes
(30:55) Â Using DAOs and Blockchain to Improve Local Governance and Participation
(40:41) Â City and Citizen Entrepreneurship for Bottom-up Development
(47:15) Â Joni Baboci's breadcrumbs
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To find out more about Joni’s work:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbaboci
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonibaboci
Website: https://joni.baboci.net
Other references and mentions:
Layer: https://getlayer.xyz
Joni’s newsletter: https://thinkthinkthink.substack.com
METABOLISM OF ALBANIA | FABRICations: https://www.fabrications.nl/portfolio-item/metabolismofalbania-2
The Deeper Order of Cities: https://thesideview.co/journal/the-deeper-order-of-cities
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs: https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Street-Life-Jane-Jacobs/dp/0345803337
Remote bureaucracy by Dror Poleg: https://www.drorpoleg.com/remote-bureaucracy and https://medium.com/block-science/disambiguating-autonomy-ca84ac87a0bf
Center for International Development | Harvard Kennedy School - https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid
The Atlas of Economic Complexity - https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu
Overthrowing The Network State: Untangling Balaji's Helical Theory of History The Blockchain Socialist: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/overthrowing-the-network-state-untangling-balajis/id1501607045
Metromontagna. Un progetto per riabitare l’Italia - a cura di Filippo Barbera e Antonio De Rossi https://www.donzelli.it/libro/9788855221948
Disambiguating Autonomy. Ceding Control in favor of Coordination… | by BlockScience https://medium.com/block-science/disambiguating-autonomy-ca84ac87a0bf
Designing for children should be plan A — so why aren’t we doing it? | by Joni Baboci: https://medium.com/@dbaboci/designing-for-children-should-be-plan-a-so-why-arent-we-doing-it-71c7d9560b76
Joni’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out):
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language
Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities by Alain Bertaud: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262038768/order-without-design
A Crude Look at the Whole by John Miller: https://www.amazon.com/Crude-Look-Whole-Science-Business/dp/0465055699
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight by David Krakauer: https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Hidden-Plain-Sight-Complexity/dp/1947864157
Scale by Geoffrey West: https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Growth-Organisms-Companies/dp/014311090X
Recorded on 17 February 2023.
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Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Alberto Brandolini joins the podcast as a sparring partner in our exploration of one of the most “burning” issues in our research: the intrinsic links between language, software and organizational design. We explore the role of domain-driven design and, more generally, the role of visualization and context mapping in the process that we call "ontological convergence" i. e. how we agree on standards, converge on using common models and build common tools, protocols and infrastructures.Â
Alberto, EventStorming creator, Domain-Driven Design (DDD) legend and unconventional entrepreneur, is also famous for the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle aka Brandolini’s law. He proudly runs Avanscoperta, a hub for inventing, promoting, and spreading new ideas around software development.Â
Alberto is also a frequent speaker at conferences and events, and an international trainer with more than ten years of experience.
During the chat we explore the ways software drives the adoption of common models and languages, and how the boundaries between technology and business, between one team and another, and even between organizations themselves, are blurring.
Alberto observes that, the more you go distributed, the more having clean, well visualized, “bounded contexts” really becomes a key factor in effectiveness and success for organizations.
Defining components and modules reduces the need to collectively agree about stuff: an heavily underestimated cost of organizing.Â
Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/alberto-brandoliniÂ
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Key highlightsÂ
👉 How ubiquitous can language be
👉 The best way to speed up reaching agreement? Visualizing instead of talking.
👉 Most no-code and low-code approaches are designed around a paradigm that is antithetic to domain-driven design.
👉 Domain-driven design suggests to be aware of the cost of your architectural decisions and the evolutions of these forces over time
👉 When the quality of a component makes it an obvious choice, it’s a good way to create standards
👉 The hardest part for remote-first organizations is finding a way to make distributed decisions on critical issues
Topics (chapters):
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(00:00) Â Alberto Brandolini quote
(00:56) Â Alberto Brandolini introduction
(01:33) Â What domain-driven design is
(16:14) Â The cost-benefit of agreeing Â
(24:05) Â Domain-driven design approach in complex environment
(28:19) Â How no-code and low-code system relate to Domain-Driven Design Â
(38:28) Â The role of Domain-Driven Design in driving standards into markets and ecosystems
(48:22) Â Talent useful for a company like Avanscoperta
(51:24) Â Alberto Brandolini's breadcrumbs
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To find out more about Alberto’s work:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ziobrando
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brando
Website: https://www.avanscoperta.it Â
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Other references and mentions:
Brandolini's law (bullshit asymmetry principle) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
EventStorming https://www.eventstorming.com
Developing the ubiquitous language https://thedomaindrivendesign.io/developing-the-ubiquitous-language
The Conformist pattern https://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/07/04/domain-driven-design-conformist Â
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Alberto’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out):
Domain-Driven Design Distilled https://www.informit.com/store/domain-driven-design-distilled-9780134434421
Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Red Book) https://www.amazon.com/Implementing-Domain-Driven-Design-Vaughn-Vernon/dp/0321834577
Introducing EventStorming (The Book) https://www.eventstorming.com/book
David Sibbet https://davidsibbet.com
Dave Gray http://www.xplaner.com
Domain-Driven Design Crew · GitHub https://github.com/ddd-crew
Avanscoperta blog: https://blog.avanscoperta.it Â
Recorded on 09 January 2023.
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Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
S04 Ep. 11. Geoff Mulgan - Architecting the next generation of Institutions
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
Tuesday Mar 07, 2023
In this episode, we are joined by Sir Geoff Mulgan to explore the potential of an emergent discipline of organizational architecture, where the diversity of organizational models and their features are studied and assessed in a more robust and systematic way - similar to in the field of buildings architecture.
Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is a Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to his current position, he served as the Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, from 2011 to 2019.
His primary focus is on improving government functionality and creating and implementing good ideas. Recently, he has been developing ideas related to shared intelligence, wisdom, science policy, social science, and systems, with a sideline in imagination. His work revolves around not only what to change, but also how to do it - from big-picture designs to the more practical aspects.
His latest book is 'Another World is Possible - How to re-ignite radical political imagination', about new ways to imagine the future in politics and in social organization. Geoff believes that - given the complexity of organizations, which rely on a combination of monetary exchanges, coercion, love, and care to operate - reducing them to a single monolithic model is not sufficient. Instead, we need a diversity of models that are able to evolve with time and adapt to changing needs. Such an approach, Mulgan thinks, is even more significant as we need to tackle the profound 21st-century transitions related to energy, climate, health, and other areas.
Most likely, we’ll need new types of institutions to face these transformational challenges - not limited by old corporate models and legal and regulatory frameworks.Â
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Key highlightsÂ
👉 Reducing organizations to a matter “only” contracts is too simplistic
👉 Complex organizations use a mix of monetary exchanges, coercion, love and care to govern
👉 Organizational design should be a discipline more like physical architecture
👉 We need new institutions that can embrace outside-in strategies and be multi-center and modular
👉 “Mesh” models of organizing combine vertical and horizontal structures and flows both inside organizations and outside of them
👉 Old corporate models and legal and regulatory frameworks currently prevent open data flows and transparency
👉 A co-evolution of new organizational forms mixing collective and artificial intelligence is foreseeable in the next decadeÂ
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Topics (chapters):
(00:00) Â Geoff Mulgan's quote
(00:59) Â Geoff Mulgan introduction
(02:07) Â The reason behind the paper "Organizational Architecture - Ideas for an Emergent Discipline".
(07:03) Â Elements of organizational architecture theory
(12:12) Â The enablers and the forces to reorganize society
(24:13) Â Government as a platform
(38:07) Â Geoff Mulgan's breadcrumbs
Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/geoff-mulganÂ
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To find out more about Geoff’s work:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/geoffmulgan Â
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sir-geoff-mulgan-aa1079187
Website: https://www.geoffmulgan.com Â
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Other references and mentions:
Organizational architecture: Ideas for an emergent discipline (paper) https://www.geoffmulgan.com/post/mesh-organisational-archicture-theory
Learndirect https://www.learndirect.com
Another World is Possible - How to re-ignite radical political imagination (book) https://www.geoffmulgan.com/another-world-is-possible
Warm Data Institute https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data
Data Meditations https://www.he-r.it/project/data-meditations
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Geoff’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out):
Museum of the Future https://museumofthefuture.ae/en Â
Recorded on 13 January 2023.
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Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Scott Brinker takes us on a journey exploring Hubspot’s fascinating platform strategy, where competitive overlaps between Hubspot’s own hubs and products and third-party developers in the ecosystem are treated as a good thing, and where recognizing and serving the “joint customer need” is the real focus.
Scott is VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, helping to grow and nurture the company's community of technology partners. He writes the chiefmartec.com blog, covering marketing technology management, and is the author of the best-selling book “Hacking Marketing”. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO of Ion Interactive. He holds degrees in computer science from Columbia University and Harvard University and an MBA from MIT.
Serving multiple niche customer needs with modular platforms: is this possible? Hubspot’s success seems to confirm. With Scott we take a closer look at Hubspot's approach at figuring out what makes the collaboration between a platform and its ecosystem work. We see what makes a product portfolio and an organizational structure more keen to meet complex and evolving customer needs through collaboration, all while keeping everything connected as one boundaryless ecosystem.
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Key highlightsÂ
👉 How the practice of marketing has evolved with technology in the last decades
👉 Even if so much software is now in the cloud, customization (vs pre-packaging) is still only in the beginning
👉 Serving joint customer needs across products
👉 Structuring modularity inside the organization
👉 Competitive overlaps in the ecosystem is a good thing
👉 Building legitimacy and trust in the ecosystem requires helping partners to evolveÂ
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Topics (chapters):
(00:00) Â Scott Brinker's quote
(00:54) Â Introducing Scott Brinker
(02:33) Â How marketing has changed and its intersection with technology
(09:27) Â Evolution around SaaS and the fact that We live in an ecosystem world
(12:38) Â Approaching product design and development with customer needs and extensibility points in mind
(18:24)  Balancing coherence and diversity in the “tool chain”
(35:08) Â Internal and external strategy - stability and change
(41:07) Â Boundaries are never static between platforms and partners
(44:47) Â Commodities become part of the core platform
(51:58) Â Scott Brinker's breadcrumbs
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Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website:
https://boundaryless.io/podcast/scott-brinker
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To find out more about Scott’s work:
- Â Twitter: https://twitter.com/chiefmartec
- Â LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjbrinker
- Website: https://chiefmartec.com
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Other references and mentions:
- HubSpot: Â https://ecosystem.hubspot.com
- Wardley mapping: https://learnwardleymapping.com/introductionÂ
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Scott’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out):
- Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative: https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Marketing-Practices-Smarter-Innovative/dp/1119183170
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile_(book)
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Recorded on 13 January 2023.
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- Â Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts
- Â LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eoÂ
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Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
S04 Ep. 09 Jocelynn Pearl – The best use case of Web3 so far: DeSci
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Jocelynn Pearl is a biotech scientist, podcaster, and company builder. She co-founded LabDAO, a web3 marketplace for life science research, and curates The DeSci Wiki, which tracks projects and DAOs in the web3 x science sector. She is also the host of the Lady Scientist Podcast and of the UltraRare The Podcast, a show featuring leaders in DeSci.
DeSci or Decentralized Science (like the acronym DeFi for decentralized finance) expands some of the principles of blockchain technology and distributed ownership to science. The impact is potentially huge in many aspects: science communities' rules, funding and incentive structures, daily work habits, intellectual property rights, etc.
Thanks to our conversation with Jocelynn, we discover the potential of DeSci by looking into the organizational aspects of decentralized communities and exploring which science branches may benefit most from its potential. Finally, Jocelynn also mentions how companies are evolving the DeSci vertical, probably providing one of the best use cases of Web3 so far.Â
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Key highlightsÂ
👉 DeSci - one of the best use cases for Web3 so far
👉 Democratization and new paths to independent funding
👉 Fixing broken incentive structures in research
👉 Examining potential drawbacks and limits of less institutionalized science
👉 Impacts of DeSci over science institutions
👉 The emergence of broader collaborations and types of scientists
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Topics (chapters):
(00:00)  Jocelynn Pearl’s opening quote
(00:42) Â Introducing Jocelyn Pearl and this episode topic
(02:35) Â What decentralized science is Â
(07:01) Â Which major institutions will be transformed by DeSci?
(10:51) Â The DeSci impact in the short term
(17:34) Â Funding and structions of science: how they currently work.
(23:00)  Everything is “tokenizible”?
(25:39) Â Will there be freelance scientists?
(31:17) Â What about tools?
(35:02) Â Collaboration and ontological convergence
(39:34) Â Beyond healthcare
(40:44)  Jocelynn Pearl’s next projects
(41:38)  Jocelynn Pearl’s breadcrumbs
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Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/jocelynn-pearlÂ
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To find out more about Jocelynn’s work:
- Â Twitter: https://twitter.com/jocelynnpearl
- Â LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynnpearlphd
- Website: https://www.jocelynnpearl.com
- UltraRare The Podcast https://rss.com/podcasts/ultrarare
- Lady Scientist Podcast https://rss.com/podcasts/ladyscientistpodcast
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Other references and mentions:
- LabDAO (on Discord): https://discord.com/invite/labdao
- DeSci Wiki: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aQC6zn-eXflSmpts0XGE7CawbUEHwnL6o-OFXO52PTc/edit?usp=sharing
- Reinventing Organizations: https://www.reinventingorganizations.com
- talentDAO: https://www.talentdao.io
- Smart Contract Research Forum: https://www.smartcontractresearch.org
- Gassing the Miracle Machine, Not Boring: https://www.notboring.co/p/gassing-the-miracle-machine
- Crowd Funded Cures: https://crowdfundedcures.org
- Flagship Pioneering: https://www.flagshippioneering.com
- NFX Bio: https://www.nfx.com/post/launching-nfx-bio
- Unbundling Work from Employment - Li Jin: https://li.substack.com/p/unbundling-work-from-employment
- Scispot: https://www.scispot.com
- Benchling: ​​https://www.benchling.comÂ
- Science Exchange: https://ww2.scienceexchange.com/s
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Jocelynn’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out):
- Â Reinventing Discovery - Michael A. Nielsen: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202846/reinventing-discovery
- Working in Public - Nadia Eghbal: https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public
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Recorded on 18 October 2022.
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Get in touch with Boundaryless:
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- Â Twitter: https://twitter.com/boundaryless_
- Â Website: https://boundaryless.io/contacts
- Â LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boundaryless-pdt-3eo
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Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
In this episode we talked to Tom Davenport and Laks Srinivasan from Return on AI Institute (ROAI) about how AI is empowering and challenging organizational models worldwide, and how the platform business model is often based on AI capabilities in the background.Â
Tom is a world-renowned thought leader and author on AI. He is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, as well as a fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, a visiting professor at Oxford's Saïd Business School, and is the Chairman of ROAI.
Laks is a data and analytics executive with more than 15 years of experience in management, entrepreneurship, and innovation roles to help clients create measurable value from AI. He is a co-founder and Managing Director at ROAI and former CEO of Opera Solutions (ElectrifAI now), an applied AI solutions company with 500+ employees globally as well as the winner of the Netflix Prize and several Kaggle AI competitions.
Tom and Laks explore with us how different forms of artificial intelligence might transform product teams at companies around the globe. In the second part of this episode, Tom and Laks offer concrete examples of companies that have created new business models powered by AI, as well as suggestions on what traditional organizations should look at when preparing to adopt artificial intelligence.
At Boundaryless we're partnering with ROAI to explore the convergence between AI and Platforms, check out our research and services here: https://blss.io/ROAI
Key highlights
👉AI is becoming pervasive in large organizations, but many are still struggling to get meaningful value out of it.
👉 Companies that “do AI” vs (digital native) “AI companies”
👉 Platform business models (as a form of ecosystem) are based on AI
👉 How AI could transform product teams
👉The challenge with AI is multi-dimensional: involves organization, leadership, culture, data and technology.
👉AI replaces tasks rather than entire jobs.
👉 Strategy-by-doing applies to AI: think big, start small, fail fast, and invest where things are working.
👉Increased awareness among executives is needed to develop their intuition around AI.
Topics (chapters):
(00:00) Intro notes and welcoming of Thomas H. Davenport and Laks Srinivasan
(03:16) How AI is empowering organizations or challenging organizational models.
(08:11) AI as a matter of doctrine in organizations: yes or no?
(11:56) Platform business model (as a form of ecosystem) based on AI
(17:13) How AI could transform product teams
(24:50) Example of companies which have created new business models powered by AI
(33:40) What should traditional organizations look at when preparing to adopt AI?
(42:02) To integrate more AI into the process? Think big but start small.
(49:58) Thomas and Laks’ breadcrumbs
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Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website:
https://boundaryless.io/podcast/tom-davenport-and-laks-srinivasanÂ
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To find out more about Tom Davenport’s work:
- Â Twitter: https://twitter.com/tdav
- Â LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davenporttom
- Â Website: https://www.tomdavenport.com
To find out more about Laks Srinivasan’s work:
- Â Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaksSrinivasan
- Â LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laks-srinivasan
- Â Website: https://roaiinstitute.com
Other references and mentions:
- Â Working with AI https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047241/working-with-ai
- Â All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence https://www.amazon.com/All-AI-Companies-Artificial-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B09Q6KHWVT
- Ping An Group https://group.pingan.com
- CCC Intelligent Solutions https://cccis.com
- USAA https://www.usaa.com
- Amara's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara#Amara's_law
- The Return on AI Playbook Podcast https://sites.libsyn.com/411860
Tom and Laks’ suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out):
- Â Being a fire volunteering for fire control or, in general, being a volunteer for something
- Â How Generative AI Is Changing Creative Work https://hbr.org/2022/11/how-generative-ai-is-changing-creative-work
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Recorded on 28 October 2022.
Get in touch with Boundaryless:
Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast
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Music
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Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Michael Zargham, founder and CEO of BlockScience and Board Member of the Metagov Project, shares his views on how Blockchain and other emerging technologies are making new ways of organizing possible. Yet, Michael believes that, so far, we are not  fully using the potential of these affordances to create something new.Â
Smart contracts are becoming widespread, but does the relationship between crypto and organizing stop there? What’s next? Which new “non-familiar” possibilities of design will we see unlocked in the next few years? Michael describes how systems designers will need to be humble and leave space for systems to evolve through enabling constraints. He also believes that the gap between the complexity of organizational design and transparency of decision-making is closing through “healthy DAOs”, blurring the line between those making the rules and those acting upon the rules.    Michael holds a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied optimization and control of decentralized networks. Thanks to his experience, Michael Zargham has a non-common point of view on designing beyond the machine.
Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: boundaryless.io/podcast/michael-zargham Key highlights: Â
👉 How new affordances for organizing are created by Blockchain and other emerging technologies;
👉 The gap between the complexity of organizational design and how it is documented;
👉The “Animating purpose” is core to what the organization does and why; Â
👉How to design mechanisms without being mechanistic;
👉How designers need to leave empty space and provide enabling constraints;
👉Systems engineers as civil engineerings: the civil servant ethics approach;
👉Finances as constraints rather than goals in emerging mutualist institutions Topics (chapters):Â
(00:00)  Michael Zargham’s quote
(00:59)  Intro and Michael Zargham’s bio
(02:33) Â New technologies, new affordances.
(06:04) Â Beyond Smart contracts: how deep is the relationship between crypto and organization?
(09:03)  The new “non-familiar” possibilities of designing next generation voting public
(14:41)  How an organization can “use” the Conviction voting
(19:55) Â The gap between organizational design and the documentation of the organizational design
(24:23)  “Animating purpose” is core to the organization and what it does
(29:49)  A new era of “Design as a participatory system”?
(33:26) Â The role of the designer: risks and opportunities.
(40:59) Â The civil servant ethics approach for designers
(46:18)  Michael Zargham’s breadcrumbs
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To find out more about Michael Zargham’s work:
> Twitter: https://twitter.com/mzargham Â
> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mczargham
> Block Science: https://block.science
> cadCAD: http://cadcad.org
> Metagov: https://metagov.org
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Other references and mentions:
> Gardens  https://gardensdao.eth.limo/#/home
> Delphia https://delphia.com/team
> “Design as Participation” by Kevin Slavinhttps://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/design-as-participation/release/1
> Boundaryless interview with Jeff Emmett: Https://youtu.be/eI6yhPdfOnE
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Michael’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out):
> “Mint and Burn” Podcast by Kelsie Nabben https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/podcasts/mint-and-burn
> “Mutualism” by Sara Horowitz https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621946/mutualism-by-sara-horowitz
> “Engineering a Safer World” by Nancy G. Levesonhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262533690/engineering-a-safer-world Â
Recorded on 12 October 2022.
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Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
The guest of this episode is Joe Justice. Joe is a legend of Agile and helped implement Agile across the world in more than 20 countries. He has led Agile practices at incredible companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Tesla, Toyota, NEC, and KDDI. In the early 2010s, his passion for mechanical engineering led him to found Wikispeed, a not so usual open source car manufacturing company that pioneered the implementation of Agile practices in manufacturing, became a global sensation, and exhibited at international auto shows.Â
With Joe we talked about how he brought Wikispeed and its ideas to Europe over 10 years ago, touring around places and meeting people from the Ouishare network - of which both Stina and Simone have been part - during the heydays of the collaborative economy. We also widely discussed Joe’s engagement with Agile at Tesla and most of the key elements of vision and work culture at Musk’s companies. We also discussed the role of governments and how their contribution and sets of policies can be conducive to more innovation, and how they should see themselves more as test centers for innovation pathways.Â
This episode provides a great insider look into what it means to work in a company led by Elon Musk, double-clicking on key concepts such as modularity and cash flow, and why they are so essential to rapid innovation.
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Key highlights:
👉 The Open Source approach to business
👉 Maximize cash flow as part of innovation
👉 The importance of data-driven performance in Musk companies
👉 The benefit of 12-hour shifts
👉 The importance of modularity to shorten innovation cyclesÂ
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Topics (chapters):Â
00:00  Joe Justice’s opening quote
01:13  Intro and Joe Justice’s bio
02:57 Â When and how WikiSpeed arrived in Europe
08:33 Â What we can learn from the collaboration between Wikispeed and Tesla
14:18 Â Agile culture vs Policies and the role of government
49:15 Â Modularity as an approach
59:53  Joe’s breadcrumbs
01:03:59 Conclusion
Remember that you can always find transcripts and key highlights of the episode on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/joe-justice Â
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To find out more about Joe’s work:
> Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeJustice
> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Joe.A.Justice Â
> Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joejustice Â
> Books: https://leanpub.com/u/joejustice Â
> Classes: https://www.abi-agile.com Â
> Agile World 2022 Keynote: "Tesla´s Secret Process for Rapid Innovation" Joe Justice: https://youtu.be/XTeZcQ9-Hr4
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Other references and mentions:
> Ouishare: https://www.ouishare.net Â
> TEDxRainier - Joe Justice - WikiSpeed: https://youtu.be/x8jdx-lf2Dw
> Tesla Anti-Handbook Handbook: http://www.ceconline.com/PDF/Tesla-Anti-Handbook-Handbook.pdf Â
> DevOps: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps Â
> Paolo Sammicheli’s books https://paolo.sammiche.li
> Joe Justice’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JoeJustice0 Â
Joe’s suggested breadcrumbs (things listeners should check out):
> Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/22446/zapp-the-lightning-of-empowerment-by-william-byham-phd-with-jeff-cox
> Commitment - a graphic novel about managing project risk https://commitment-thebook.com Â
> Great Courses Big History https://www.amazon.com/Great-Courses-Big-History-Humanity/dp/B07FD45QRDÂ Â
> Learn anything to an extremely high level of skill: whether it’s pasta dishes or martial arts - choose anything and just go deep.Â
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Recorded on 1 Dec 2022.
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