Patience
A rational group does not hurry to consensus. It waits for the dust of conversation to settle before drawing the line.
collective thought, cultivated like a garden
Each card is a stone in the karesansui. The space between them carries as much meaning as the stones themselves.
A rational group does not hurry to consensus. It waits for the dust of conversation to settle before drawing the line.
Speak when the room is quieter for your having spoken. Otherwise leave the silence, which is also a position.
Ideas, like rocks, need air around them. The most rational arrangement is rarely the most densely packed one.
A confidence interval is a courtesy. State the width of your uncertainty as plainly as the line of your claim.
Treat the dissenter as a borrowed lens. Their angle is the test that keeps the group from mirror-talking itself into error.
A reasoned mind moves like a koi: slowly, but it moves. To be persuaded by evidence is not weakness, but the form of strength most worth practising.
A group is rational only as long as it remembers what it once thought. Keep notes. Revisit. Forgive yourself the older view.
Reasoning together is the most generous thing a group can do. Tend the conversation as one tends a garden.
A rational group is one whose silences are honest.
— rational.group, principle the first