Thanks so much for the kind words about this project @shinyforest! It means a lot that you read through the concept and that you found it intriguing!

Working in a collective is a challenge for a lot of reasons, but I think it's worth the complications. Besides the obvious difficulty of coordinating multiple people to work on a single project, there's also the complication of coming up with an idea collectively that every member feels passionately about. But in our experience, the hard work of talking out our ideas until all four members agreed on something was exactly what lead us to your strongest ideas. A lot of times we'd sit and talk for hours (or days) before we could even start working, but it was always worth it in the end. I think our ideas as a group were always stronger than any ideas I had as an individual. One thing that really helped us was to have a framework of working that allowed each member to still express his individual voice within the collective project. We'd come up with an idea as a group, but each person could still go off and have the time and space to express that idea in his own way before coming back together.