Keynote: The Ecstatic Organisation
summary
Argues organizations can be engineered to be ecstatic by treating them like conscious systems and applying concrete practices: clean up calendars to enable flow states, restructure teams and code to increase autonomy and reduce parallel work, redesign dashboards and pipelines for fast feedback loops, and audit rituals and processes to remove trauma-driven checklists. Recommends meditation as organizational self-awareness (regular whole-org checkins), tighten information architecture (stop Slack pollution), and align architecture with org design per Conway’s law to make these changes actually work.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:06What work should feel like
- 8:12Ecstasy in programming
- 12:25Eastern metaphysics
- 20:28Organizational consciousness
- 26:07Designing ecstatic orgs
- 33:10Meditation and flow
- 38:25Conscious action
- 41:55Heart in work
- 42:38Closing
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