Richard Bartlett about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits
Ep. 24

Richard Bartlett about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits

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Episode description

Richard Bartlett is the co-founder of Loomio, a collaborative decision-making tool for communities and organizations. He started his career as an engineer, but the financial crisis caused him to change direction. He joined Occupy Wall Street and eventually founded Loomio in 2012. With over 13 years experience in digitally assisted consensus decision-making, he has valuable insights to share.

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0:00Intro
0:22Story behind Loomio
8:16Horizontal decision-making with Loomio
10:55Deliberation and participatory democracy
12:59About hierarchy and power
19:53The difficulties of consensus
22:54Idealism vs. pragmatism
26:07Improving feedback loops with technology
30:01About democratic platforms
34:29Balancing between bottom up vs. top down
40:50Small scale vs. large scale
45:13Waiting for the next social movement
46:23About under-complexity
48:45Final message