Greater Than Code
Greater Than Code
244: Making Peace and Creating Trust with Brianna McGowen
01:52 - Brianna’s Superpower: Intense Empathy and Feeling Deeply
06:28 - Practicing Acceptance vs Resignation
- Making Peace Without Giving Up
- Problems/Tasks vs People
- Providing Alternate Narratives
- Delicious Democracy: Making Things a Pleasurable Experience for All
12:04 - Delicious Democracy: A Creative Advocacy Lab
- Biomimicry
- Creative Ways to Form Grassroots Coalitions
- Online Town
- Door Knocking
- Reinforcement
17:14 - Community-Owned AI
- Merging Humans with Algorithms; Technology with Government
- Platform Co-Op Conference
- What is Ownership?
- Mastodon
- DisCO.coop
24:51 - Trust
- Trustless = Antihuman
- “Building Trust” by Robert C. Solomon & Fernando Flores
- The Industrialization of Trust
- Confidence Levels
- Working Families Party
40:41 - Outcomes > Outputs
- Measurements of Success
- Measurement Theory
- Proxy Measures: All Measures Are Proxy Measures
46:56 - Equitism
Reflections:
John: Unique approaches to door knocking: Changing the script.
Casey: 1) All measures are proxy measures. 2) Thinking about how growth mindset and outcomes not outputs relate.
Damien: Being able to work with nonbinary is the only way to deal with things like trust and confidence levels.
Brianna: 1) All measures are proxy measures. 2) Meandering conversations!
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