Jessie Upp

In this conversation: The network weaver — Jessie brought a relational, feminine perspective that balanced the conversation's technical and architectural energy. She's building DayBalancer, grappling with namelessness, and measuring circulation rather than growth.

Topics She Introduced

Water Sommelier — a person she recently met who teaches water education through tastings
Boardy AI — an AI networking startup (Pete corrected the funding details)
DayBalancer — her cooperative network living system, which she demoed via screen share
Circulation as a Metric — "the new metric... not measuring through growth, but measuring through circulation"
Meet in the Commons — a domain she got, grappling with ownership and collective space

Stories She Told

Feeling Abandoned by Collaborators

"We vibed really good. And then she just left, and I felt abandoned."

Jessie shared a pattern of forming deep collaborative connections — with Wendy McLean, with Vincent Arena and Christina Bowen — only to have them go quiet. Pete reframed this gently. See Conversation Flow.

The Walking-Talking Meetings

Jessie mentioned she prefers walking and talking to sitting at a screen — she and Wendy McLean used to walk virtually together on the phone.

Key Contributions to the Dialogue

On Namelessness

"Even nameless is a name, so I'm wondering... there's a way that it doesn't have, and nobody names it, like Pete shared, internet came out of someone saying, hey, let's call it the internet, but it's not internet.com."

On Language Changing Perception

"What we're doing is changing our language. And that changes things. That changes the perception. That's the game changer."

On Emergence Over Planning

"When you start working on a project and you fail fast, and you can start getting the feedback loop mechanism going, that's when things happen."

Closing Koan

"The named can never be nameless, and the nameless can never be named."

Projects and Interests Discussed

DayBalancer — her primary project, a living system for cooperative networks
Meet in the Commons — a domain reflecting her thinking about collective space
Co-op networks with time/energy tracking, gratitude metrics, circulation visualization

People She Mentioned

Doug and Joanna — advisors on DayBalancer
David Witzel — requested group-within-group functionality from the GRC
Vincent Arena — past collaborator, dinner at Green Lake in Seattle
Wendy McLean — past walking partner, felt abandoned when connection dropped
Christina Bowen — business partner connection through Vincent's network
Lynn — a regenerative work practitioner in DayBalancer

Follow-ups and Action Items

Send Tuesday co-creating session invitations to Pete and The Nameless One (Tuesdays at 8 AM PST)
Share DayBalancer links and co-op network documentation
Continue developing the living system with Doug and Joanna's advisement

Site Navigation