Jim Benson (OurFounder)

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I have released a book...my sixth! The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces, my novel about everything we to for and to each other at work, set with a murder, peril, intrigue, and coffee...is out now and available for purchase. If you've liked anything I've written, you will love this.

Tomorrow the Titanuts launch...off we go. I wrote this because business books didn't let me tell a story...to provide context. The book covers what my other books have, but with "real" people in surreal conditions. I can be clearer about the role of relationships, stress, and coffee in daily life.

Most battles are fought at the expense of the family farm. Right now, wars waged around the world impact people in the "middle of nowhere" that discovered that they were somehow pawn in someone else's poor problem solving.

Weak leaders surround themselves with praise and get very upset when challenged. When team building you want people who can work together. Work is solving problems. Solving problems is learning. Learning is having something you didn't think yesterday become a thing you are thinking today.

Oligarchs and CEOs are often sociopaths and narcissists. Not all of them, this isn't clickbait, but a lot of them. They also, through this, often bring a very necessary energy to a new endeavor. We all have potential positive impact.

In The Social Life of Small Enclosed spaces, the garch class does a lot of harm and some are...integrated. 5 days to the launch of The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces ... 18 Sept 2026

Oligarchs and CEOs are often sociopaths and narcissists. Not all of them, this isn't clickbait, but a lot of them. They also, through this, often bring a very necessary energy to a new endeavor. We all have potential positive impact.

We often act in helpful ways that inflict help. We do nice that hurts, we make features that ruin the experience. We want to be nice, but don't want to do the work required to find out what nice is. Social Life launches in a mere week. link in the image there...

It takes guts to solve problems, confront your feelings or those of others, or be a leader that knows when and how to help someone. Blaming, berating, and making the focus all about you is the sign of a manipulator, not a leader. 10 days to the launch of The Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces.

When people tell you to tell them what to do it means one thing and one thing only...They don't know what they _can_ do and can only ask for what to do. titanauts.com

"Someone has to believe the right space can coax out something decent from people." That's most of what I believe about work in one sentence. Design the environment well & people surprise you. Design it thoughtlessly & no amount of posters or certifications will save you. It's at titanauts.com.

Laura is an organizational psychologist on a corporate-funded spaceship. 100 people, 1 "closed" system, 3 years to Titan. She's caught between the belief that the right space can coax decency out of people, and dealing with the fact that who controls the space and why is also of painful importance.

"Someone has to believe the right space can coax out something decent from people." That's most of what I believe about work in one sentence. Design the environment well & people surprise you. Design it thoughtlessly & no amount of posters or certifications will save you. It's at titanauts.com.

I have the first pages from my layout guy and am thrilled with what Social Life of Small Enclosed Spaces is shaping up to be. Yes, I've been quiet on Bluesky... see what I've been working on here.. titanauts.com

The activities we've come up with for the Kanban Evolved workshops are so fun, the conversations so deep. I love my job. You haven't done kanban for real before you've addressed this stuff. lu.ma/modus?k=c

If you are a leader or aspiring there are common mistakes we all make in the interest of decisiveness or getting things done quickly that have costly implications. In our Toxic Waste and Overload classes, we create strategies to create healthy work and constructively respond when things aren't good.

You and I operate with our own internally flawed models, just like AI is a flawed model. The difference is we’ve had a lifetime of understanding or at least coping with our own flaws. Our use of AI? We take it’s correctness for granted and laugh off the errors…to our shared detriment.

Your most used spaces have connection. Your favorite people have connection. Your favorite food, movies, scents, books… As humans we connect and we get work done. We connect and we create. We connect and we relax. We connect.

When we are with people. Family, co-workers, people on airplanes, … people… we impact each other. In little ways, in large ways. We build, very quickly actually, shared languages. We measure temperament, current state, humor, shared observations. And then we impact and are impacted.