We're a digital talent pool, restructuring how teams operate and redefining our relationship with work. We're centred around a desire to work on more purposeful initiatives.
We work on projects that contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals; 17 goals designed to improve quality of life for the worlds most disadvantaged people, and future generations.
Opportunities to work for (or to create) high impact organisations are rare, as are opportunities to define one’s own role, to organise ourselves, and to work on projects of interest. At Otio, we collaborate to make these opportunities happen.
Updated February 2022
The Roman philosopher Seneca understood the word otio to represent something more than absolute free time. He understood it to mean leisure used in service to the community by intellectual activity.
There’s nothing we do with as much regularity, intensity and unquestioned submission as work.
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Jamie McCallum
The Tyranny of Work
Our members are demanding better than the status quo on how to do work.
Our vision is to create and deliver products, services, and organisations aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our members are both the source of new ideas and the talent pool to work on existing ideas.
We challenge hierarchies and power imbalances.
We experiment with freedom and variety by easily joining, contributing to, and leaving projects.
We have purpose and fun working in passionate, high-performing teams.
Interested in doing more with your free time?
This collection of essays, articles, and other community projects inspired the creation of Otio Collective.
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Why your career is your biggest opportunity to make a difference, and how you can use it best.
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The 'if-everyone' multiplying machine is a bad thing because it deflects people’s attention.
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Jobs have become, for so many, a relentless, unsatisfying toil. Why then does the work ethic still hold so much sway?
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The invisible structures responsible for producing the majority of the built objects around us – this is all Dark Matter.
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Workers have become far more productive, but their working hours are not dropping at the same rate.
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Alternative Camden is a collective investment in a new model for local innovation and imagination.
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The value in embracing an outlook based on facts, far outweighs directing anxiety about everything all the time.
