COMMUNITY BUILDING & GLOBAL COORDINATION SYSTEMS with Tibet Sprague
Welcome everyone to Awakening Together. This next episode goes really deep into the heart of the new social DNA of an awakening culture. With my guest Tibet Sprague, we cover alot of terrain, starting with how we live in community, embody our values, stay connected when it gets difficult and do the healing work necessary for cocreation. It’s potent and enlivening to fully inquire together into what it takes to build a new culture, what are these building blocks from healing relationships to building deep and trusted friendships, navigating through the disconnection, as well as what will it take to birth these next generation of technologies, platforms and social networks. This is what is so inspiring because Tibet because he is bringing a whole systems way of embodying new culture. This is our collective creative opportunity to give birth to a human culture that is mature enough that we can actually work together in order to create a new kind of social coordination system for a planet in transition. We’ll hear wonderful examples of living together, working together, and working on a tech platform. Such a unique convergence. What will it really take to shift into Game B, the Infinite Game, or become a coherent superorganism for a regenerative culture. Basically we are talking about creating community, the kind that builds a beautiful structure of belonging. We’ll hear about the way of council, how it works in community and with for purpose businesses, as well as in a home, family, community. Here are living prototypes of the new operating system in action. Wisdom in action. We’ll learn about the Terran Collective and Hylo, a pro social platform, and ultimately as Tibet likes to say building a platform for stewardship of the planet. I think you will enjoy this, check out the show notes, subscribe and share with your friends and I am grateful that you are here. All feedback, comments and questions are welcome. It’s wonderful to share the things that inspire me with all of you.
LINKS:
Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael and Beyond Civilization
Way of Council, Virginia Coyle
Towards a Literacy of Cooperation, Stanford Humanities Lab and IFTF
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding the Commons and 8 Principles for Managing the Commons
Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How indigenous thinking will save the world
BIO:
Tibet Sprague is a communitarian technologist, working for a world where all beings can thrive. As a core steward of the Terran Collective and Hylo his mission is to amplify cooperation among those working to heal and regenerate our communities and our planet.
Tibet is an experienced entrepreneur, technical leader and community builder. He has been coding since age 10 and starting companies since he was 22. He has built numerous software platforms from scratch, while growing and managing software teams from 2 to 18 people. Tibet spent six years helping grow the residential solar industry as one of the founding employees and VP of Engineering for One Block off the Grid. They helped drive down the cost of home solar while building some of the very first tools for remote solar system design using satellite imagery. 1BOG was acquired first by Pure Energies and then NRG Home Solar who mismanaged and ruined all that had been built.
This past experience led Tibet to the belief that the mainstream model of VC backed startups is unlikely to create the kind of radical change needed in the world right now as we face so many existential crises from climate change to political polarization and misinformation. So in 2017 Tibet co-founded the Terran Collective to experiment with different organizational models, and create a structure that would protect their work from corruption and co-optation by the forces of neo-liberal capitalism. Terran runs as a for-profit/non-profit hybrid using sociocracy as their governance model. The work of Terran weaves together community building, technology, and culture creation, to foster greater trust and collaboration, with a particular local focus on bioregional coordination in the Bay Area. Tibet is the technical lead of their primary project Hylo - the social coordination platform for a thriving planet. Other projects Tibet is involved in through Terran include the NorCal Resilience Network and Collaborative Technology Alliance.