What happens if a corporation relinquishes all control? In the case of Semco it's a success and an existence proof for a democratic workplace. - Bill Anderson
This is definitely worth reading. Nothing revolutionary ... except that Ricardo Semler puts giving up control into practice. The results are extraordinary. - Bill Anderson via Bookmarklet
Cocktails ... mixology ... "[Bartenders] should measure the ingredients, not free pour them, to keep the drink in balance ...." It's chemistry and proportions matter. - Bill Anderson via Bookmarklet
Mark Masterson's guide to connecting the services to each other. His example of "ambient intimacy", a phrase I find to be confounding and associative. Maybe it's one of those round or chubby words. - Bill Anderson
“Twice this morning I tried to comment on a FF post ad failed both times with a FF not available message. I was using Twhirl. I'm hoping it'sjust an anomaly.”
Hey, Bill, sure thing. Recap:: Pete: Weird outcome of industrialization: we expect (and highly value) *everything* to be uniform, predictable commodities. Bill: Good point about industrializ'tn. We love the mess but want it to be neat. Q: what can I do? Pete: good question. lots of it is good, of course. but we try to standardize weird things, e.g., education or personal peak experiences. - Peter Kaminski
As an example, look at the idea of workflow. Even though our daily experience of work is more as a series of interruptions than a fixed movement between well defined states, we still build systems that instantiate an ideal kind of work activity without interruption. Maybe this is the price of abstraction and reduction that's needed to design computer systems. But as Peter K says it does leak over into areas like education. - Bill Anderson via twhirl
