Let's keep the networked thoughts coming! Here are 23 elements of effective, transformative collaborations that were generated at the salon.

Add to or elaborate on any of these and lets make this thread HUM (what did I miss @bryankam?)
Upcoming: links/biblio of resources shared https://twitter.com/bryankam/status/1387827541281476608

1. Transcendent interest (large-scale, profoundly shared, unpredictable interests emerge and can't be reduced to any single interest that an individual participant brought into the collaboration).

2. Lack of a top-down agenda with rigid enforcement of said agenda.

3. Emergent solutions (unpredictable ideas arise from the interaction of participants, not any one individual).

4. Oftentimes atemporal (the relationships transcend conventional time constraints; for example, you can call up a collaborator after many years of not speaking and you pick up where you left off).

5. Pleasure! Often over long periods, people feel the simple pleasure of being with each other (doesn't feel like "work", there's unexpected fun that lasts and reverberates).

6. Optimized for productivity, not friendship: Sometimes friends don't make the best collaborative partners; rather, partners who push you to be better, more productive, are often better collaborators.

7. Intersubjectivity: Partners work as a whole (like a perfectly executed dance routine), not as turn-taking individuals; there is atunement and coordination at a whole-system level.

8. There's a dynamic balance between top-down and bottom-up interaction processes.

9. Vulnerability is encouraged and practised.

10. Trust. Trust. Trust.

11. A new language is co-created over time (often across participants from multiple disciplines).

12. Storytelling over time gives rise to a narrative about the identity and aspirations of the collective.

13. Incentive structures reward the whole collective, not individuals (can be contrasted with most current models of academic funding, science and art prizes, publication status, and so on, which incentivize individuals to work alone or taking solo credit for work).

14. External "thirds" that help the dyad/collective keep focused on their work together (these include spouses, family, and supportive friends that remain outside the collaboration but support its members' work).

15. Openness, responsiveness, and flexibility to small perturbations (tiny new ideas) that have the potential to be collectively responded to and amplified, resulting in large-scale innovation.

16. Indirect, nonverbal communication which is part of the dynamic flow of information and is part of the conduit through which collaborators become increasingly attuned to one another.

17. A medium or context that favours certain conditions and dynamics that the collective is particularly tuned towards or within which the members thrive as a system.

18. "Interchangeable" characteristics activated in complementary ways (examples: 1 person acts as the hopeful, encouraging one while the other feels dejected and then they switch; or one is the super extrovert that week while the other can socially withdraw, then switch).

19. Shared values.

20. Opportunity for both healthy competition and cooperation.

21. Hard work and productivity is occasionally stopped in order to connect on a human level, emotionally, with empathy.

22. Real-time interactions are privileged, during which new ideas can self-organize from moment-to-moment, top-of-mind thinking (compared with strictly asynchronous communication).

23. Loose-tie, massive social media contexts (like Twitter) support low-responsibility, casual interactions that offer serendipitous connections and can augment collective intelligence, especially in emergent micro-communities.

@bryankam and all you smart, engaged people who attended: What did we miss? Please add, elaborate, correct, and otherwise augment this list.

Next salon thread: questions brought up for more discussion/future salons(Teaser: Can we collaborate with dead people from the past?)

Amazing addition to this thread: here's @jose_goncalves_ fabulous video-summary of his experience of, and insights from, the salon: