“The ecological movement is the largest movement in human history, yet it is fragmented because it is using the “tools of the master” for coordination, resource sharing, and conflict resolution…While many technologists have created social networking technology, they have not succeeded in creating good coordination because social networking tools do not address enough of the primary coordination mechanics for scalable trust.” Grace Rachmany: Sideways Earth on Github

Friend of the podcast, Grace Rachmany is a mother, a tech industry trouble shooter, author of over a hundred white papers and co-author of the book, ‘So you’ve got a DAO: Handbook for Distributed and Connected Leadership’. She’s Executive Director of the Decentralised Identity Foundation and it’s this that we’re exploring today.

It’s long been established on this podcast that the old paradigm is not fit for purpose and is, in fact, in the process of disintegrating beneath our feet.

We know we need to create communities of place, purpose and passion – but if we can do this, how do we find other communities to link with so we can:

– Scale from community to region. (based on shared action)
– Keep one another accountable for behaviors that reflect what we say our values are (people are also squishy when they say the word values).
– Scale behaviour change beyond a closed or Dunbar-number community to multiple communities.
– Scale actions and collaborations to regional levels without a hierarchical coordination structure.
– Coordinate actions and behaviors based on the commons we share, whether or not we share “values”.

This is the missing link that is often overlooked as we craft a way forward to a world that works, and I’m so glad someone with Grace’s outstanding intellect and depth of heart is exploring this.

And that she’s willing to come here and talk about it.

So here we go: a wide, deep, full conversation on the missing link of scaleable trust.