I keep developing the metaphor for group dynamics using Zombies and Robots. I am using the metaphor to represent the most common evolution of a small organization based on volunteer or motivation based workers. And to propose other ways for improve operations as well as providing a fun framework to talk about the organization itself by its members and users: the brains.

This is a fragment of the presentation (which I intend to use as a base for a video as well) in which I describe the creation process of the group. After some brains discuss an idea, some zombies appear looking for brains. The most motivated brain jumps into a zombie, representing that brain taking action and responsability for some of the organizational tasks. The other inactive zombies represents tasks or roles that need to be fulfilled and are still expecting a brain.
On the other side, a group of brains, attracted by the idea of the forming group, have their own emotions about what is going on. That emotions can lead them to leave, become spectators or to take part actively fullfiling a zombie task.

There are a lot of more situations that I am describing and modelling using this metaphor, so they can be used to explore and explain the dynamics involved in some groups and organization operations. Facilitating a language and a model to improve and develop new strategies.

Last Friday I posted my first mini-product for sale a writers tracking spreadsheet to help improve productivity when writing. Apparently my mind thought all the work poured there surely deserved missing the post on the following day. Yep, that's the second day I miss the daily post. I was the whole Saturday working (or fighting) to develop the web for my upcoming wedding and at the end of the day I just wanted to go to bed and keep my reading of A storm of swords.

Today I had another session to work on the Oppa! video project, but the weather was so awful that we ended in a cafeteria and nothing worthy to be speak of was made. Because of the way the project is this was expected to happen anytime. I wonder why do I want to make a project that relies so much in the weather if I am in the UK.

I have also been writing, and using my brand new and cool tracking spreadsheet for the first time. I wrote 1583 words in two sessions, with an overall speed of 590 words per hour. I was working on character notes and synopses. I don't have enough data yet to draw conclusions, but it seems that I can spot a pattern appearing. My speed is a bit higher on my second session during the day. I will keep an eye on that since this is just a vague hypothesis, I don't even have proper data about long sessions or days in a row working.

See you tomorrow.

Developing a concept about group dynamics based on my experience at various organizations, companies, projects, conversations with other people and theorical knowledge about the subject.
A work in progress video is on the way.