Building Capacity for Exit to Community

People know what it feels like to be on a tech platform where they are the product instead of the ones using the product, which is the case for so much mainstream tech out there. We don't want that, and our community doesn't want that. They really see the downside. We have different sub-communities, like open source people, who deeply understand te... See more

I've worked in a lot of "non-hierarchical" organizations, and management or leadership do not go away. You don't succeed in that space by removing them and leaving a vacuum. You succeed by reinterpreting things like management and leadership into distributed processes, transparent roles that can rotate and are accountable back to the community at l... See more

No one in our community is super excited about putting down their main thing they're passionate about to just do governance. Builders and activists don't necessarily want to do a bunch of bureaucratic stuff. I hope we can make it feel immediate, like 'I participate and my voice is heard and it really has an influence that positively impacts me and ... See more

It's hard to sit there complaining about paying money if you can see it costs $300 get the accountant to file that thing we need, and that the person you enjoy talking to gets paid this much. Seeing it all transparently is quite powerful.

I want us to be writing more of these utopian sci-fi stories, because that's my dream, living in that post-capitalist Star Trek world. We can start in the world that we live in now, creating little bubbles of that new future, really living it, and inviting more and more people to live in that different reality with us, in a in a deeply real, moving... See more

Money is an important heuristic for groups to measure their capacity to support their work properly and not burn people out. Money is not the be all end all, but people get really put off by how it's been so co-opted by the capitalist, extractive system that we're trying to escape. My theory of change is, instead of running away from it, we need to... See more

People know what happens on tech platforms when the governance is done by a tiny group of elites behind closed doors. So what's the alternative? We all have to do governance together.

Exit to Community was a very natural fit. It's giving us a north star to orient ourselves around strategically, and helping us figure out what capacities we need to build, internally and with our community, to be set up for a successful post-E2C future. It has really helped us get aligned as a team. Exit to Community is values-aligned, structurally... See more

Exit to Community is values-aligned, structurally-aligned, and financially-aligned. For us, it makes a lot of sense.