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BrainPower - collaborative power calculator
Hey fellow sprinters,
For a while now, I've been thinking about how to measure something I see happening in every process I facilitate: the power of collaboration. How do you objectively quantify the energy generated when several people think and create together toward a shared goal?
That's how my latest experiment/hallucination came to life: BrainPower — a collaborative power calculator. Designed in Miro and prototyped in Coda, this is my first adventure into the wild lands of vibe coding.
Far from a one-shot prompt, it took a lot of back-and-forth to refine the logic and build out the visuals I designed in Figma. Finally, the thing is done and is live for everyone to use. I think it turned out pretty easy and intuitive — just plug in 4 variables, hit calculate, and get your results instantly. Available in Portuguese and English, free and responsive.
INPUT
- Time: process duration in hours
- People: number of participants
- Mode: in-person, remote, or hybrid
- Participation: whether participants will be split into sub-groups (Y/N)
OUTPUT
- BrainPower: the process's potential collaborative power
- BrainWork: total collective intelligence applied throughout the process
- BrainOps: total brain operations performed
- Process Efficiency: a quick assessment of the process quality
- AI Equivalence: number of top-tier GPUs and time needed to match the same BrainWork
- Energy: metabolic consumption of all brains involved, and how long that would power a 4-person household
- Amplification: the time it would take one person to do the same work alone (in hours and working days)
- Intellectual Output: number of pages and books written with the same intellectual effort
Want to know more about how all of this holds together? Why did I choose each unit of measurement and comparison metric? How do the amplification and efficiency degradation factors work? It's all laid out in the About section of the calculator, complete with interactive charts.
BrainPower is not an academic paper with scientific proof. It's an experiment to estimate the invisible potential of collaborative processes. Use it as a heuristic to compare processes, explore possibilities, and spark conversations. Then let me know what you think.
Come on in! You're 5 clicks away from understanding the power of your processes, meetings, and workshops: https://brainpower.unboxlab.co/
Brain on fire,
Pedro Segreto
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BrainPower - collaborative power calculator
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