Within two weeks over 60 people had reactivated, and one posted a bid in our Signal channel (thanks Matt<\/a>) – within days a dozen people had expressed their interest and we had two calls, joined a briefing session with the prospect and now have an active and genuinely multidisciplinary group (banking to sound art) and a bid taking shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the individuals coming together hadn’t seen each other for over five years (pre-lockdown) and so, of course, the majority of our calls weren’t about the work, but about catching up with each other, sharing stories and was inspiring to hear. The act of people just getting together to make things is always just lovely and we reflected that, unlike COVID, the current global sentiment is a very different shape, and carries a very different kind of weight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On one level it doesn’t really matter what happens next, I’m just really happy that we’ve continued to build on our many-parts, loosely joined community … to find a way of getting really lovely people together to make new and unpredictable connections. Everything is all anchored on and around people who just love just doing<\/strong> stuff. If we win this particular commission it’d be amazing of course, but it is almost beside the point: the constellation doing what constellations do is the point. The bid is part of the constellation experiment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The speed in which I was able to do this (I still run IB1) is supported by<\/em> the tech that I’ve built very specifically around what I need, rather than someone else’s product or beholden to an enshitified product, is part of what we’re building here: tech that doesn’t enables and gets out of the way, doesn’t track or mess with our data in ways we don’t want. Part of the good side of what ai can enable is that we can all now build the tools (not the agents) we want to see in the world, rather than being someone else’s extractive product. I also have had to reflect that the nickname\/handle I’ve used online for the last 20+ years (agentGav, thanks to Manu) now has a certain irony to it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n *** UPDATE<\/strong> *** One of our Constellation has just let me know that “One thing that emerged from the constellation is [anonymised] and I getting married. During the pandemic [anonymised] connected over a project and that’s how we met”. Oh my.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A screenshot of part of our Constellation below for reference, just to bring it to life – if you’d like to join, the link and description is here<\/a>. If you’d like your own Constellation, please get in touch (yes, of course it’s open source).<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This has happened before, but I thought I’d write it down this time, because it’s such a lovely story. After a few years of quietness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,60,35,42,43,34,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-constellation","category-culture","category-environment","category-finance","category-life","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CL8-20260612.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-2aa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8338,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions\/8338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dgen-Constellation-20260612-1024x545.jpg\")
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