Squads

Specific Examples of Squads

"Squads are groups of independent people that work together. House mates are an example. Squads provide resiliency and growth opportunities that are impossible to achieve alone."
"Contributions to the squad are positive sum. You help the squad, the squad helps you more because you build social capital. "
"Squads = autonomy + community + equity"
Shared resources - for example, when my mastermind had a "little free library" on Dropbox.
Shared promotion / WebRing 3.0 - people to help you promote your work to their audiences, upvote on Reddit, etc.
Emotional Support someone to help you avoid common failure types, provide advice, help you get unstuck.

Little free library - a shared list of resources
Directory - listing of people that we can co-promote
Take a gig, leave a gig - share work we don't want.
Shared subcontracting - hire one another to help on each other's projects.
Weekly hangouts structured (mastermind style) or unstructured.
Shared knowledge base some kind of blog / wiki / roam; could be either a public facing digital gardens or a private internal resource.
- Examples:
  - Yak Collective Roam Database
Avengers, Assemble Projects Working together on larger, collaborative projects.
- Examples:
  - https://kaidavis.com/products/independent-consulting-manual/
  - https://www.yakcollective.org/projects/future-frontiers/
Collected Works - curate everyone's works for cross-promotion.
- Examples;
  - https://www.yakcollective.org/writings/#writings-2021-February