Inner Library consulting, workshops, and case studies

A brief intermission to share that I’ve started consulting.

Thanks so much to everyone who pledged subscriptions after my last post The world has never been disenchanted. It means this newsletter can embrace a more rapid pace with a renewed focus, one I've sharpened to comprise thoughts on technology, cosmology, and the relationship between them.

This new series will begin in May with an essay called Thresholds of Autonomy. I'll turn on paid subscriptions then.

Before then, I wanted to share a brief personal update.

Inner Library consulting

Last year, I quietly started a consultancy under the name Inner Library, through which I write on technology as well as advise on organizational design, memory, and strategy. I’m currently interested in taking on new work as a facilitator, researcher, or writer.

Write to contact@innerlibrary.net to explore working together, or read below about workshops I’d enjoy bringing to more organizations.

Patternship governance workshops

Earlier this year, I was lucky to be a part of the Metabased Fellowship by Syndicate, which supported me to write case studies on organizations relevant for designing economic mechanisms around ownership of decentralized infrastructure, like electric co-cops, mountain clubs, mutual funds, and keiretsus. I've also been lucky to work on these topics in practice with projects rethinking org charts like Hats Protocol.

Through this work, I’ve developed workshop formats that help organizations explore how they'll evolve over time, whether they're beginning, growing, or sometimes, ending. These workshops result in different outputs depending on needs, including governance design, renewed organizational visions, and strategies for relating to emerging technologies.

My facilitation approach combines organizational coaching with scenario modeling methodologies, which guide organizations to imagine how they can change in relation to internal and external pressures. They can compare different decision-making systems, plan key transitions, and learn about context-appropriate approaches to tools.

During these engagements, I create shared "memory threads" using AI tools. Like an interactive, inner library of our work together, we build context spaces through collecting discussions, notes, and historical and cultural references. Organizations then own these memory threads that they can revisit in conversation at any time after the workshops conclude.

For larger collaborations, I partner with organizations like BlockScience, Hats Protocol, and Other Internet to complement my facilitation with their specialized expertise in mathematical modeling, technical implementation, and social research.

Explore working together

If you’d like to explore these workshops for your organization visit the Inner Library workshops page for more details, or feel free to directly write to me at contact@innerlibrary.net. Please also reach out if you’d like to work together through a different format, like editorial commissions.

I'd love to support projects working at the intersection of governance and emerging technologies, including mutualist institutions, materials science, neural media, agro- and biotechnology, and even gathering spaces.

See you back here shortly in May for the first post in my new series.