The Life Sprint w/ Rakesh Kasturi

Sarah Drinkwater: What is the responsible tech movement?

Sarah Drinkwater is the Director of Responsible Tech at Omidyar Network, a social change venture that works to bring about structural changes that will fundamentally shift the systems that govern our daily lives. Sarah is on a mission to make technology more ethical and responsible. In 2020 she and her team launched the Ethical Explorer, a collection of tools to help people building software and technology navigate its impact. In our conversation we talked about: * The responsible tech movement and what it takes to build software more responsibly and ethically * The future of community organizing on the internet, micro movements and decentralization * Renaissance literature, business books and where to find inspiration to break out of our own bubbles Listen to the co-matter podcast anywhere by subscribing to iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/co-matter-co-talks/id1268423755], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/7BgWI9Lb3h5hjOtLKCOaIN?si=-wHOay8wS92rxeYfkdK9pg], Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/comatter], Stitcher [https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/comatter/the-community-podcast] or your favorite podcasting app (search for "co-matter"). Follow Sarah at [https://twitter.com/brokep]@sarahdrinkwater on Twitter and Medium. Thank you Omidyar Network for making this conversation possible. You can download the Ethical Explorer here [https://ethicalexplorer.org/].

How Thumbtack Empowers Local Small Business Owners w/ Marie Paoli

Marie Paoli leads the in-person community at Thumbtack, one of the largest marketplaces to connect with local service professionals in the USA. With local small businesses having an increasingly hard time to run a sustainable business today, Thumbtack aims to empower them by growing communities in their local areas. How does that work exactly? That’s what we wanted to find out from Marie Paoli. In this pop-in call we talk about: How Thumbtack works together with small business owners to convene, nurture, and grow communities in their local areas How its ambassador program gives the best and most engaged users a platform to design and build their own community structures Marie’s personal outlook for how communities will develop in the future Listen to the co-matter podcast anywhere by subscribing to https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/co-matter-co-talks/id1268423755 , https://open.spotify.com/show/7BgWI9Lb3h5hjOtLKCOaIN?si=-wHOay8wS92rxeYfkdK9pg , https://soundcloud.com/comatter , https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/comatter/the-community-podcast or your favorite podcasting app (search for "co-matter"). If you're interested in finding out more about Thumbtack check out their app and https://www.thumbtack.com/ . Interested in more insights about bringing people together? https://co-matter.com/mailinglist for a monthly update on the future of community.

The Life Sprint w/ Rakesh Kasturi

Pop-in calls are short, hands-on conversations where members of the co-matter community call in to share insights about a specific project they currently work on. This week's guest is Rakesh Kasturi. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkasturi/ is one of two co-founders of the https://www.lifesprint.me/ , a virtual collaborative course where you can take the time to reflect and work on your pressing career challenges from any location, without having to dress fancy! How does that work exactly? And how do they connect people after this experience? That’s what we asked Rakesh. In this pop-in call, we talked about life, how to get unstuck in life and how to do this with 10 strangers in an online video conference. Listen to the co-matter podcast anywhere by subscribing to https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/co-matter-co-talks/id1268423755 , https://open.spotify.com/show/7BgWI9Lb3h5hjOtLKCOaIN?si=-wHOay8wS92rxeYfkdK9pg , https://soundcloud.com/comatter , https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/comatter/the-community-podcast or your favorite podcasting app (search for "co-matter"). If you're interested in the work Rakesh is doing check out https://www.lifesprint.me/ to connect or sign up for their next virtual Life Sprint! More of that please? https://co-matter.com/mailinglist for a monthly update on the future of community.

Build community, space will come w/ ATÖLYE

Engin Ayaz and Atılım Şahin are the co-founder and creative hub director of https://atolye.io/ , a strategic design studio and innovation platform located in an old beer brewery in Istanbul, Turkey. At ATÖLYE, 40 strategists and designers collaborate, co-learn and co-create with a community of 150 individuals and organizations to solve wicked problems. How does that work exactly? That’s what we asked Engin and Atılım. In this pop-in call they talk about: The founding story of ATÖLYE, its roots in https://dschool.stanford.edu/ and https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp/ and future vision How ATÖLYE curates and coordinates a community of 150 individuals and organizations to collaborate with its strategic design studio Engin’s and Atılım’s vision of bringing the learnings of ATÖLYE to inspire and build new community spaces around the world Listen to the co-matter podcast anywhere by subscribing to https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/co-matter-co-talks/id1268423755 , https://open.spotify.com/show/7BgWI9Lb3h5hjOtLKCOaIN?si=-wHOay8wS92rxeYfkdK9pg , https://soundcloud.com/comatter , https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/comatter/the-community-podcast or your favorite podcasting app (search for "co-matter"). If you're interested in the work Engin, Atılım and their team are doing check out https://atolye.io/ and learn more about their thinking on https://medium.com/atolye . More of that, please? https://co-matter.com/mailinglist for a monthly update on the future of community.

Build Community, Space Will Come w/ ATÖLYE's Engin Ayaz & Atilim Şahin

Engin Ayaz and Atilim Şahin are the co-founder and creative hub director of https://atolye.io/, a strategic design studio and innovation platform located in an old beer brewery in Istanbul, Turkey. At ATÖLYE, 40 strategists and designers collaborate, co-learn and co-create with a community of 150 individuals and organizations to solve wicked problems. How does that work exactly? That’s what we asked Engin and Atilim. In this pop-in call they talk about: The founding story of ATÖLYE, its roots in Stanford's d.school and NYU Tisch’s ITP program and future vision How ATÖLYE curates and coordinates a community of 150 individuals and organizations to collaborate with its strategic design studio Engin’s and Atılım’s vision of bringing the learnings of ATÖLYE to inspire and build new community spaces around the world Listen to the co-matter podcast anywhere by subscribing to https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/co-matter-co-talks/id1268423755,https://open.spotify.com/show/7BgWI9Lb3h5hjOtLKCOaIN?si=-wHOay8wS92rxeYfkdK9pg,https://soundcloud.com/comatter , https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/comatter/the-community-podcast or your favorite podcasting app (search for "co-matter"). If you're interested in the work Engin, Atilim and their team are doing check out https://atolye.io/ and learn more about their thinking on https://medium.com/atolye. More of that, please?https://co-matter.com/mailinglist for a monthly update on the future of community.