How might we...
- How might we learn more effectively from each other?
- How might we develop the habit of sharing our learnings with each other more frequently?
- How might we share what we’re learning in a useful and light way?
Hypothesis
If we share short videos with each other five days a week for two weeks, then we will find sharing with each other easier and more compelling.
Design
Each person will make a video on WhatsApp of their learnings once a week.
Monday: Eugene
Tuesday: Jodie
Wednesday: Alison
Thursday: Mark
Friday: Elissa
Eugene will set up an automated email reminder to you on the day you are supposed to share the video.
Metrics
Between April 7 – May 7, how many times do people in E3 spontaneously share learnings with each other, outside of another facilitated gathering?
Minimum: At least one person chooses to share a thought (without prompting) with the group on what they’re learning
Target: At least two people choose to share a thought (without prompting) with the group on what they’re learning
Epic: Everyone chooses to share a thought (without prompting) with the group on what they’re learning
Learnings
Technically, we hit minimum success. However:
- We ran into technical roadblocks that made it hard
- The email notifications helped some of us
- Even if we hadn’t, once a week for two weeks isn’t long enough to establish a habit
Decisions
- Make sure everyone has resolved their technical problems. (Already resolved for 2/3 people.)
- Instead of repeating the Kardashians experiment, Eugene wants to do a “The Martian” experiment (which someone had proposed as the original name for this experiment), where he does a video wrap-up of what he’s thinking about once a day for five days. Wants to see if others are inspired to do the same (or at least to share their thinking) without pre-committing to an experiment.
We have not yet tested a version of this experiment where we broadcast videos publicly (or at least with a larger audience). Something to think about for a future iteration.
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Final tally: 6 umms in the morning, 3 in the afternoon (along with this encouraging message from Mark!):
Simply doing the experiment (and probably the group accountability) made me more conscious of my, “umms,” even without the feedback. The feedback itself definitely helped, and it was fun!
Here’s a brief video (as part of the #kardashians experiment) explaining what I did and what I learned:
#umm
#kardashians
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJOF47TFpTA&w=1280&h=720%5D
#kardashians
We took a quick survey to gather some data on how the Kardashians experiment went. Four out of five of us filled it out. Here are the results:
Off the top of your head, what themes or lessons came up in the videos that have stuck with you? (Please don’t re-watch the videos to answer this.)
Any final thoughts?
#kardashians
In Week 1, everyone tried to share a video, but only two were able to successfully, with one emailing an audio recording as a proxy.
In Week 2, two of us shared a video on our designated date, one sent one later, and two skipped.
As of today (almost three weeks after the experiment ended), only I have shared an extra video (a Kardashians wrap-up on the Monday after the experiment ended). We defined minimum success as at least one person sharing a video unprompted, so technically, this experiment succeeded.
#kardashians