💅 Hi I'm Rich

My name is Richard D. Bartlett, like Rich dB, like Rich Decibels.

• 🍌 Email me an email at richdecibels@gmail.com
• 🐦 Tweet a tweet at me on Twitter: I'm @richdecibels
• 🐚 Collaborate with me on Scuttlebutt

This is my face

Photo credit: Guy Ryan

I write things on the internet

I'm interested in how we work together, at any scale from personal development to organisational design to municipal governance. These are some of the stories I like the best:

• 🐢 Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity
• 🐿 A Caring Organisation: Feelings, Magic & Gendered work
• 🕷 Minimum Viable Structure: Organisational Scaffolding to Get Out of Emergency Mode
• 🐘 Direct Democracy in the Digital Age: A Conversation with the Mayor of Seoul
• 🐥 5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather than a Mass Movement of Individuals
• 🐡 Commons Technology and the Right to a Democratic City
• 🦟 Blockchain Doesn't Decentralise Power

These stories are published with a CC0 license, which means you can do whatever you like with them. I publish on medium.com so you can follow me there to be notified of new articles. They're also hosted here on my website with many different formats so you can easily reproduce them.

My first book is available here, even though it is not finished yet. It's called Patterns for Decentralised Organising, sharing solutions to the most common failure points of collaborative groups.

I'm also a contributor to the Enspiral Handbook and the Loomio Cooperative Handbook, which are resources for nonhierarchical organisations.

If you want to support me to write more things like this, you can contribute here. 😍

Here is my CV

 

After having my mind & heart blown open during the Occupy movement, I co-founded two worker-owned companies so I could make a fulltime commitment to the work most meaningful to me:

• Loomio is open source software for deliberation and decision-making in groups of 3-300 people.
• The Hum is a coaching, training, and hosting consultancy. We offer practical guidance for decentralised organisations.

I love talking

• 🎥A short video of me talking about Loomio and the global movement for 21st century democracy.
• 🔈A podcast with Daniel Thorson about Occupy Wall Street, collective intelligence, and blockchain.
• 🔈A podcast with Douglas Rushkoff about consensus and participatory democracy.
• 🔈A podcast with Stephen Reid: teal organisations, scuttlebutt and solarpunk.
• 🎥A long interview with Jessica Feldman about the ethics of doing activism in the marketplace.

I used to make noise machines

They're all open source; you can find the blueprints on my old blog. (You can open that link with the Beaker Browser.)