[journal] Collaboratives: A Proposal

An idea for indie folks working together. Assumed audience: Folks who work independently—or have in the past, or might like to in the future. Epistemic status: Ideating! Collectives are an organizational structure for bringing together people to share the legal and financial challenges of going it alone professionally, without embracing the mechanisms of the corporation. I propose collaboratives: an organizational structure for bringing people together to share the social challenge of going it alone professionally, without embracing the mechanisms of the corporation. In a recent blog post, Casey Liss concluded a discussion of using Claude Code with this observation: While I’m incredibly lucky to be able to work for myself, and I have astonishingly great humans as my podcasting coworkers, I often feel very alone when it comes to my development work. What I miss about having a jobby job — more than anything else — is working as part of a team to solve a tricky problem. Claude and I are…