Valerie Aurora
We also talked about understanding the how other players view the world, what their incentives are, and what risks they are worried about about
Quite often a mysteriously unresolvable crisis can be solved once you correct your understanding of a person or organization's goals
E.g. an HOA's goal isn't to serve homeowners, a university's goal is not educating undergraduates, veteran service organizations don't exist to help veterans
Valerie Aurora
It makes me wonder about what could constitute a Minimum Viable Crisis and if there is a way to make that apparent sooner
But there is a line between allowing the organization to hit rock bottom by refusing to overfunction as an individual (fine), and full on accelerationism (not fine) so I am not going to pursue that line of thinking much farther
Valerie Aurora
Highlights from the first day of Crisis Engineering from Layer Aleph:
Crisis engineering is more accurately named than I realized.
"Crisis" is in the sense of the crux; the point where things are definitely going to get better or worse depending on what is happening at that moment.
"Engineering" in the sense that an organization in crisis is in the unusual state of being open to transformative change - which is usually impossible
Valerie Aurora
Several of us had some form of the question, "How do I successfully warn an organization about an impending crisis that I foresee but the organization does not?"
The answer is both depressing and freeing: you can't, so don't try. Instead, wait for the crisis to become apparent to the organization and then show up with your ideas for what to do to solve this crisis now—and change things so that the organization CAN see this kind of crisis approaching in the future
Valerie Aurora
Reminder: you can still register to attend the Crisis Engineering Workshop from Layer Aleph on July 30 - August 1:
Might be a teensy bit easier to convince your manager today... :)
Valerie Aurora
Hahaha omg just saw this: "We at Layer Aleph are optimists on AI, as in, its misapplication is surely going to create new and interesting catastrophic failures of complex systems."
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/layer-aleph_the-synthesizer-effect-activity-7201245741606973441-Oxvd
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