If the networked world is a planet-sized distributed computer, network culture is its operating system.
Month: December 2015
any sufficiently advanced kind of work is indistinguishable from play.
A stream is simply a life context formed by all the information flowing towards you via a set of trusted connections — to free people, ideas and resources — from multiple networks. If in a traditional organization nothing is free and everything has a defined role in some grand scheme, in a stream, everything tends steadily towards free as in both beer and speech. “Social” streams enabled by computing power in the cloud and on smartphones are not a compartmentalized location for a particular kind of activity. They provide an information and connection-rich context for all activity.
http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/the-serendipity-of-streams/
If non-free people, ideas and means of production result in a world of container-like organizations, free people, ideas and means of production result in a world of streams.
http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/free-as-in-beer-and-as-in-speech/
Tinkering — the steady operation of this working simple system — is a much more subversive force than we usually recognize, since it poses an implicit challenge to authoritarian priorities.
http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/free-as-in-beer-and-as-in-speech/
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. – John Gall (1975, p.71)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_law
In a changing environment, organizational stability valued for its own sake becomes a kind of immorality. Seeking such stability means allowing the winners of historic conflicts to enjoy the steady, fixed benefits of stability by imposing increasing adaptation costs on the losers.
http://breakingsmart.com/season-1/the-zemblanity-of-containers/
