OSE Culture

About

Culture is what we do- and what we don't do.

1. Leveling the playing field for democracy worldwide.
2. We develop blue collar work into integrated work. If blue collar, then it is lifelong learning for expansion.
3. Our culture doesn't exist in good supply. So we create it. Success depends on creation. Before mass creation of culture is shown - there is no guarantee that it will happen. Therefore an absolutely creativeindset is needed.
4. We can bencark existing best practice an build on it.
5. It is surprising how little innovation exists in established fields. Boundary crossers can change this.
6. Pedagigy of abundance is a new field.
7. We are teachers. We thus work in public, such as by vlog, video, and wiki. Our Forum is for abundant design: discussion of proposed practice as opposed to theory. It is unique in that it is based on open economic significance. To join, you must provide an open design on the wiki, filling any of numerous libraries for parts, devices, modules, code snippets, parametric designs, poems, cultural distillations, etc. Anything that builds abundance culture. Even land that is donated to the public. These are nodes connected by RLFs with Abundant Money creation infrastructure possibility for public production.
8. Public logs and videos document with transparency. Nobody steals abundant resources. Effective sanctions exist for violators.

Key Points of Genius Culture

• Urgency, because this is war. Infinite patience, because our time scale is eternal
• People like to work here. Even during a death spiral
• We expect performance, because we are building a great organization.
• If you were perfect already, you would be CEO of Apple and wouldn't want to work here. You are here to learn performance.

General

OSE has a culture of open, collaborative innovation and learning. We are committed to a long-term view for creative transition of existing systems into the next economy, which we believe will be the open source economy. We believe that open innovation is the route to an efficient and ethical economy.

We are: Open, collaborative, integrative, creative, transparent, ethical, transformative, learning, meaningful, effective, efficient, peak performance .

1. Open source culture - openness and sharing is the route to unleashed innovation.
2. Ethical economy - there are fundamental issues of equity in today's economy, and we aim to transcend them without harming anyone and without leaving nature behind.
3. We take a long view - principled approach to creating essential change - and for regenerating the earth - not putting band-aids on deep problems.
4. Absolutely creative approach - transformation happens by creating new options, not taking down existing ones.
5. Learning organization - we value constant learning and improvement
6. Systems approach - we value an integrated, eco-system based approach, as opposed to reductionism.
7. Meaning - what we do is intended to provide fundamental solutions to pressing world issues - not bandaids or trivialties.
8. Efficiency for Abundance
9. Audàcious, unreasonable, and transformative - we gobbke up Amazon and Walmart for breakfast on the way to the next trillion dollar economy of distributive Enterprise.

Great by Choice

• Builders with a purpose
• Purpose is to make peoples' lives undeniably better
• Ambition for something greater than ourselves (level 5 ambition)
• Level 5 leaders, level 5 purpose.
• But that's not enough. For a transition to the collaborative economy, we need Level 6 Leaders.

Vision

• Collaborative open enterprise culture for new possibilities for everyone - as expressed within the OSE vision.
• Collaborative open enterprise culture for an inclusive economy of abundance.
• Missing for me: the continuous improvement of self and product ecosystems for a life well lived, without hurting anyone.

Leadership

• Leadership qualities are many, we select rigorously for personal evolution in leadership. This touches upon the psychology of full and continuing psychosocial integration for superhuman powers.

Workers on the Ground

• You are expected also to grow in skill integration, leading to technical innovation at the very least. And leadership growth - as anyone with the right mindset can be grown to executive leadership.

Other

• Responsibility - the price of freedom is responsibility.
• Openness - embodying open source culture in the aspect of documenting for building-upon by others.
• Transparency - access to freedom is generated by openness in behavior and in documentation
• Honor - the route to freedom is honorable, ethical behavior
• Diligence - consistent pursuit
• Focus - eyes on the prize, for the good of all
• Drive and Ambition - for the common good
• Abundance - the route to abundance is productivity, but also wisdom in the use of the products
• Lifelong learning - essence of a learning organization
• Performance Development - open sourcing high performance in all its forms: excellence, productivity, efficiency, ethics, integrity, justice,

Desirable Characteristics of OSE Participants

From the development point of view, this is the type of person that we are looking for as we build the OSE Team:

We are interested in someone with practical experience, and who has an ability to consult with experts to bring and apply proven, cutting edge techniques and implement them.on the ground at Open Source Ecology. We are not looking for apprentices to play in their sandbox as much as integrators who draw from and integrate the wealth of globally-distributed knowledge - and bring it to Factor e Farm. We are looking for leaders, but if the person has the right mindset of learning, we are willing to take on less-experienced individuals who can follow guidance - ie, those who are wise enough to discern what works and what is fluff - and who learn from the mistakes of others.

This is important for two reasons. First, Open Source Ecology's main operating assumption is that humans have already attained sufficient knowhow to survive and thrive. However, as a civilization - disciplines are specialized and siloed in isolation - and boundary-crossing learning is difficult in today's world. It is my opinion that we can fix problems by drawing upon existing solutions - by learning from, integrating, and applying existing knowledge. I think that wise use of knowledge from many disciplines is much more important to human progress than any 'new invention' in a particular field. Therefore, Open Source Ecology aims to study best practices from multiple disciplines and open-source them - make them transparent and widely accessible. From an operational standpoint, that means that our team must focus on learning from others - the world's best - to bring in cutting edge knowledge from all over to make a showcase example of what happens when best practices are used. This to me is the key to a civilization reboot.

Second, I have observed that very few people are actually capable of taking advantage of the wealth of existing knowledge. For one, such knowledge is not readily available. Even if such knowledge were available - ego, immaturity, and desire of people to do things their way often stand in the way of learning. I have seen that only rare people have the capacity to identify, seek out, and get advice from the world's experts - ie, to take 'industry standards' and build upon them to make them more appropriate - without 'reinventing the wheel.' People with such a capacity are particularly valuable to us, and we intend to build our organizational culture on such people: the nonconformists who learn from others to build upon current state of art. At the same time, we do not seek new solutions - but more integrations and distribution of existing solutions to raise the bar for everybody - not to further empoer the empowered. We build power where there is a lack of power.

The type of person that we are looking for would need to be able to write a detailed work plan and demonstrate a convincing case for being able to execute on that plan, within specified timelines and budgets.

Q&A

• Why are you designing a 3D printer that is 4x faster than standard printers? Because we will use about 4x less energy - not to mention make printing of plastic lumber feasible for the Seed Eco-Home.
• What are your goals? To democratize productivity is one of our main aims.