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Was it Pareto or Orwell or someone else who had claimed that every organisation eventually develops an informal inner circle, just due to the limitations of tim

Was it Pareto or Orwell or someone else who had claimed that every organisation eventually develops an informal inner circle, just due to the limitations of time and socialising? Even the consensus-deciding Quakers have "weighty friends". Note that Jo Freeman certainly dealt with the phenomenon, pointing out that the 1970s-and-currently best known antidote is making decision-making structure and memberships explicit. (non-advertiser supported sport has a similar problem: if a country wishes to support elite full-time athletes, either a discipline has to have an affluent and widespread group of amateurs who take lessons and clinics, or it has to be able to hide the elite sport budget within the military or police structures) Heh, now water can crash, or it can flow. I just had a vision of one possible future in which there's an entire generation of chinese "lying flat" at their country houses (furnished with 筆、墨、紙、硯, or at least their digital equivalents?), while there's an entire generation of americans (legally-at-will) working 996 in their manufacturing jobs... (and speaking of jobs: there's about half a billion years of stratigraphy, before the oldest still-extant sequences, which we're missing and even the most curious geologist probably never can recover) > I returned, and saw under the sun, that eternity is not to the igneous, nor the metamorphic, nor yet to sedimentary layers; but time and chance happeneth to them all. —not Kohelet 9:11 Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7pOVAQ54Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7pOVAQ54Y

gsf_emergency 2y ago
This (and other vids) looks so leisurely that you should immediately suspect the sprezzaturistas of being CCP-sponsored: https://youtu.be/qafzuXnaXNg https://youtu.be/qafzuXnaXNg (Re: elite sports of the technological societies: are back(-ish) to the moksha-samsara dynamic? Let's say we don't want to invoke TK just yet) One wonders why jobs was also obsessed with paintings and zen gardens.. the quotes might be polished but IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out after barely a generation?
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  trimming the ink sticks reminded me of nothing so much as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI ! > IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out real artists ship, and shipping (like cherry blossoming) is ephemeral? 花の雲鐘は上野か浅草か
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    But polished quotes can become immortal even if sophistrical I would not say taleb (polished public persona) was not even wrong. Complexity pays off when you have an open system. In academia, the complexity pays off to the cloister within the cloister? In arts/industry.. the boundaries are more porous so you can afford to let/can't help having the losers partake in the complexity. a 5-year-old pack of yoghurt. Has the consistency and flavour of chalk. Thawed mammoth, otoh... Edit: that may explain which Jacobsian mode of survival becomes dominant. Next up, mode of trust? https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mapping-leadership-culture-based-on-8_fig1_339064192 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mapping-leadership-cultu... https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/wowswa/top_10_economies_according_to_erin_meyers_the/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/wowswa/top...
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      Ottosson's first figure (not linkable, alas?) looks suspiciously, on either branch, like a Thomian catastrophe (a cubic going from one [stable] to three [2 stable, 1 unstable] intercepts). Interesting that the Old Country shows up as heavily "task-based" trust. I wonder if it could move towards becoming a higher-trust society if enough people were convinced that living together in a civilised manner were a worthy, err, I mean profitable, background task?
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    >Was it Pareto or Orwell or someone else who had claimed that every organisation eventually develops an informal inner circle the pervasion of this thought-killer amongst x-percenters makes me indignantly curious about what stuff the actual inner-circlers actually spend their supposedly limited attention on.. shipping? 42471021 As tlb pointed out, since it's hard to distinguish meretocrats from meritocrats, "RAS" may not apply..

gsf_emergency 2y ago

This (and other vids) looks so leisurely that you should immediately suspect the sprezzaturistas of being CCP-sponsored: https://youtu.be/qafzuXnaXNg https://youtu.be/qafzuXnaXNg (Re: elite sports of the technological societies: are back(-ish) to the moksha-samsara dynamic? Let's say we don't want to invoke TK just yet) One wonders why jobs was also obsessed with paintings and zen gardens.. the quotes might be polished but IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out after barely a generation?

082349872349872 2y ago
trimming the ink sticks reminded me of nothing so much as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI ! > IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out real artists ship, and shipping (like cherry blossoming) is ephemeral? 花の雲鐘は上野か浅草か
- gsf_emergency 2y ago
  But polished quotes can become immortal even if sophistrical I would not say taleb (polished public persona) was not even wrong. Complexity pays off when you have an open system. In academia, the complexity pays off to the cloister within the cloister? In arts/industry.. the boundaries are more porous so you can afford to let/can't help having the losers partake in the complexity. a 5-year-old pack of yoghurt. Has the consistency and flavour of chalk. Thawed mammoth, otoh... Edit: that may explain which Jacobsian mode of survival becomes dominant. Next up, mode of trust? https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mapping-leadership-culture-based-on-8_fig1_339064192 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mapping-leadership-cultu... https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/wowswa/top_10_economies_according_to_erin_meyers_the/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/wowswa/top...
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Ottosson's first figure (not linkable, alas?) looks suspiciously, on either branch, like a Thomian catastrophe (a cubic going from one [stable] to three [2 stable, 1 unstable] intercepts). Interesting that the Old Country shows up as heavily "task-based" trust. I wonder if it could move towards becoming a higher-trust society if enough people were convinced that living together in a civilised manner were a worthy, err, I mean profitable, background task?
- gsf_emergency 2y ago
  >Was it Pareto or Orwell or someone else who had claimed that every organisation eventually develops an informal inner circle the pervasion of this thought-killer amongst x-percenters makes me indignantly curious about what stuff the actual inner-circlers actually spend their supposedly limited attention on.. shipping? 42471021 As tlb pointed out, since it's hard to distinguish meretocrats from meritocrats, "RAS" may not apply..