Apr 3Ensemble Agendas — Agendas Proposed and Prioritized by ParticipantsFor routine meetings, you can often set an effective agenda by tweaking established templates. But what if the ideas to be discussed are especially complex or novel? For example, how would you solicit feedback from a group of employees on a recently announced organization-wide paradigm shift? When it is difficult…Meetings5 min readMeetings5 min read
Nov 4, 2020How to Tally Ranked Ballots with Ranked PairsMany resources explain why you should use the stupendously fair Ranked Pairs method to tally up ranked ballots. A few: Outlaw the Election Spoiler Matching Movement with Method The Condorcet Canada Initiative This post focuses on how to tally with Ranked Pairs. We aim to put candidates through the rigorous…Ranked Pairs4 min readRanked Pairs4 min read
Nov 1, 2020Matching Movement with MethodHow Should We, The People, Tally Ranked Ballots? I’d like to thank Move to Amend for organizing a transformative People’s Movement Assembly to re-imagine the US constitution. Connecting with a creative, intelligent, and diverse group to ponder what comes next was positively inspiring. I was heartened to hear such broad support for using ranked ballots during the assembly…Instant Runoff Voting6 min readInstant Runoff Voting6 min read
Oct 29, 2020Ranked Pairs Voting Explained Using The Ten Hundred Most-Used WordsXKCD’s Thing Explainer got me wondering if I could explain Ranked Pairs using the 1,000 most common words. Here is my attempt! Leaders have the power to make big, important changes that touch us all. To make sure the changes are good for everyone, we need to make sure we…Voting5 min readVoting5 min read
