Commitment Pooling and the Random Walk
Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace that nothing is under control
‘Relax, nothing is under control’
Now I’ve been drawn to Buddhism before…
and I also just read ‘Flow’ by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi . The sweet spot between rising challenges to meet rising skills. Too hard, yer stressed out, too easy…BORING.
I also just read ‘Refuse to Choose’ by Barbera Sher, who talks about ‘scanners’ - people who are interested in many different things, and like to switch between them.
I prefer ‘Hunter in a Farmer’s World’ but without the official diagnosis, I’ll just have to keep paying for parking like a regular citizen
BUT what I am circling around is COMMITMENT POOLING and the work of Grassroots Economics developing blockchain backed systems for people with skills and resources but perhaps not so much money, to come together and get things done.
The basic idea is that people or groups ‘commit’ a certain amount of vouchers for goods or services to a pool, and other people or groups can exchange their own commitments in that pool.
So the ‘Hep Pool’ for instance
has a bunch of Hep Vouchers worth an hour of my labour - be that film stuff, moral support or demolition. You can set your product/service offering like a store.
Amongst people I know in the film business, DOPs could offer different vouchers for filming, actors for acting, HMW artists for HMWing etc.
It’s kind of a step up from barter, as the exchanges don’t have to be one to one. Like I could ‘draw’ DOP services, but the DOP might not want my editing, but exchange it for someone elses voucher.
Think perhaps also of a supper club. People could ‘commit’ to hosting a certain number of dinners, and then, rather than resent Ed who never reciprocates, you’d see in the pool that Ed’s done a fair share of dining and little hosting.
I’ve done a bit of a play through of setting up some pools and vouchers here…it is riveting viewing let me tell you.