A personal README, written for the benefit of potential collaborators, sharing how I tend to work and think.
This is an evolving document, intended as a demo for fellow worker-owners at Hypha Worker Co-operative.
- I have a bias toward leaving options open.
- I am comfortable with uncertainty, and often favour letting messiness exist before defining something. Sometimes I'd prefer not to overly define it, even if it seems well-understood.
- I am process-oriented.
- I prefer to blame process before people.
- I am often biased toward conversation and discussion, and execution can be delayed.
- I try to define and document process only to the extent as to lock in things that have been discovered to work in practice. I prefer not to document or define in anticipation of something not yet proven or exercised.
- I believe we learn about things that flow. I prefer not to lock down aspects that I still feel the collective is learning about.
- I can be stubborn.
- I believe in expressing gratitude early and often.
- Cultures of gratitude are important to me.
- At present, I am most proud of how I work in shared physical space with people, as touch-points with others act as accountability structures for me.
- I am biased toward research and mapping landscapes, and can sometimes air on the side of too much mapping before initiating action.
- day
- prepare next day's todos
- prepare breakfast
- prepare lunch
- have clothes laid out
- have daily carry packed
- wake up early
- I've slept with my phone far away
- my phone is a recent model, with lots of storage and good specs
- I have an unlimited mobile data plan
- do body weight exercises (30 min)
- eat quick breakfast
- bring packed lunch
- leave house and bike to workplace, either:
- coworking space
- quiet cafe
- open my laptop, which is a recent model and working well
- lots of free storage space and speedy specs
- start time-tracking
- track time at least to WG-level
- ideally to task level
- morning catch-up
- skim my
*@hypha.coop
emails - skim chat
- we have WG-specific chat rooms
- casual/random convo is in one room
- catch up on our Loomio
- catch up on GitHub mentions via our webapp
- catch up on [GitHub notifications](https://github.com/notifications
- review assigned issues
- skim my
- I run an all-hands meeting
- I put on a good quality headset or earbuds with mic
- Since everyone is on the call, I take an extra 30 minutes to prepare as host, to use everyone's time wisely
- As host, I'm in the call room at least 5 min early
- my space's wifi gets wonky, but I have my data plan to fall back on that without issue
- we do a personal check-in question or comment
- audio is perfect
- everyone has crystal clear mic audio when speaking
- there is no background noise on anyone's call
- everyone is using video, and we can see one another's faces
- we have agreed that our "home" backgrounds should show some of our personality (no blank walls)
- someone is called out for being in a new room all this week with a blank wall, and the "interior decorator" role in the "Culture" circle knows that they have the authority to call that person out in a good-natured way.
- we do a quick process check-out
- someone else hosts a quick meeting
- most days don't have multiple meetings
- we know in advance who's cultivating
- they're put in time to prepare
- through the day, I'm being responsive on two fronts of communication
- chat for the WG's I'm on
- email (esp external
- ....