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We are living in a 'cooperative/corporate' age, where the prime drivers of innovation are collections of humans rather than individuals. The problems we face ar
by meri_dian 9y ago
We are living in a 'cooperative/corporate' age, where the prime drivers of innovation are collections of humans rather than individuals. The problems we face are more complex than ever before and exceed the individual capabilities of even the brightest among us.
Visionary thinkers still have their place. A Cooperative needs leaders to chart its course. In a complex world, people who can derive inspiration from multiple domains of knowledge will always be valuable.
- Retric 9y agoGroups of people have issues scaling. At the scale of the say the DoD you end up with a lot of inefficient redundancy which pushes organisations to specialize. Google for example does not actually do that many different things, it just has crazy amounts of leverage.
- pureGuano 9y agoI think people are (slowly) re-learning the importance of redundancy. Having multiple, competing implementations makes you far less vulnerable to shocks.
- posterboy 9y agoUsing relational databases as a model for the structures in question, some form of redundancy (secondary and primary keys) is needed to avoid more redundancy (dublication). I actually don't know what I'm talking about, if it made sense to someone, please correct me where I'm wrong.
- Retric 9y agoThis is not really productive redundancy as for example the Navy and Air Force can't easily swap HR systems. This is mostly everyone being their own little snowflake.
- dilemma 9y agoIndividuals have even more trouble scaling.