Alex Soto
Task
Status
Date
Jan 10, 2024
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Subject info
- Alex Soto
- Role / Job title: facilitator
- Experience: S3
- Purchase summary: n/a
Company info
- ???
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- Type:
- Maturity
Interviewer Observations
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Alex Soto and Artem Zhiganov introduce themselves, discussing their backgrounds and current living situations. They talk about their preferences for mountains over beaches and the potential impact of climate change on coastal areas. Artem discusses his work on building a product called Harmonica, which uses language models like GPT to facilitate sense-making in governance processes. Alex expresses interest in the idea but raises concerns about the limitations of technology in addressing emotional conflict and power dynamics within groups. They discuss examples of recent facilitation experiences and how Harmonica could potentially complement human facilitation by providing visualizations or summaries of group discussions.
Outline:
10:13 - Artem discusses the concept of sense making and using language models like GPT.
11:11 - Artem explains the importance of identifying options and sense making.
12:20 - Artem shares his belief in using GPT for sense making.
13:17 - Alex Soto mentions his experience with sociocracy.
14:33 - Artem explains how Harmonica turns patterns into prompts for GPT.
15:51 - Artem describes how GPT synthesizes responses and provides drivers.
16:47 - Artem discusses the role of the chat bot in facilitating sense making sessions.
18:33 - Alex Soto and Artem discuss alignment and the potential limitations of removing emotional conflict.
The Role of a Facilitator
20:06 - Alex Soto mentions the importance of a facilitator in noticing non-verbal cues.
22:04 - Artem suggests using the bot to assist facilitators before or after sessions.
22:31 - Alex Soto discusses the usefulness of a dashboard for facilitators.
24:18 - Alex Soto emphasizes the facilitator's role in making implicit things explicit.
Potential Applications
25:01 - Alex Soto discusses the potential of Harmonica in larger groups and sense making sessions.
26:19 - Artem asks for an example of Alex Soto's facilitation project.
27:19 - Alex Soto shares his experience with the reimagina bente taranta community.
29:11 - Alex Soto explains the challenges of summarizing conversations in large groups.
30:19 - Alex Soto discusses the potential of using Harmonica for systematic documentation and planning.
The Facilitator's Contribution
31:50 - Alex Soto and Artem discuss the facilitator's role in detecting unspoken things.
33:59 - Artem mentions not intending to turn the conversation into a customer development interview.
Notes:
- Artem Zhiganov and Alex Soto are having a conversation about using technology for sense-making and facilitation in meetings.
- They discuss the use of language models like GPT to enable large groups to engage in sense-making sessions.
- They talk about using prompts based on sociocracy patterns to facilitate discussions and decision-making.
- Artem explains how Harmonica, a chatbot interface, can be used to synthesize participants' responses and generate a synthesized driver statement.
- Alex expresses mixed feelings about using technology to diminish emotional conflict, as there may be important underlying issues that only a facilitator can address.
- They discuss the importance of facilitators in noticing and addressing unspoken issues and changing the energy of the room.
- Alex mentions the usefulness of visual graphics or a dashboard to track participation and highlight important points in a meeting.
- They talk about the challenges of facilitating large groups and the need for tools to aid in sense-making and decision-making.
- Alex shares an example of facilitating discussions in a community focused on reimagining organizational structures in Latin America.
- They discuss the need for systematic meetings to build collective understanding and develop a roadmap for the community.
- Alex emphasizes the role of a facilitator in detecting unspoken issues and processing conversations to achieve useful outcomes.
Action Items
Alex Soto: Explore using a dashboard or visual graphics to track and analyze group dynamics during facilitation sessions (23:13)
Artem: Continue developing Harmonica as an AI-powered facilitator bot for sense-making in governance (8:45,
9:22)
Artem: Integrate sociocracy patterns into Harmonica's prompts for large-scale sense-making sessions (15:11,
17:28)
Artem: Consider complementing human facilitation with Harmonica's capabilities (21:59)