Very important essay. Often misunderstood. It doesn't say "since invisible hierarchies arise anyway we should just as well start with explicit hierarchies." I

Very important essay. Often misunderstood. It doesn't say "since invisible hierarchies arise anyway we should just as well start with explicit hierarchies." It does point out some common ways for invisible hierarchies to arise, and the challenge is coming up with structures that limit the effect of those. One example I like is that any person can be in any number of working groups they want, but they can only have a say in the working group they are meeting with at the moment. If two working groups are active at the same time, the overlapping members have to choose the one that's more important to them. This ties decision power to physical presence and we all have equal opportunity to be physically present. One person cannot accumulate lots of physical presence to influence a disproportionate amount of work at once.