Category: Articles
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Joseph Campbell on following your bliss
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are — if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life…
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Bonnitta Roy on an open architecture for self-organization
Bonnitta Roy describes in An Open Architecture for Self-Organization how to “to distribute management responsibilities into self-organizing teams, without losing strategic performance“. She calls this “The Open Participatory Organization“, or OPO for short. The governance of an OPO is CriSP, or “continually regenerating it’s starting position“. This means that the form of the organization “takes…
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StreamMode vs. StateMode
Mike Caulfield writes about StreamMode vs. StateMode in this article about What Iterative Writing Looks Like (and why it’s important). In StreamMode you organize your thoughts in a timeline or sequence of events. Twitter is an example. In StateMode there’s a body of work at any given moment. It’s not a trail of the path…
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Self-driving cars are involved in twice as many accidents
Self-driving cars are involved in twice as many accidents as ordinary cars1 because they always obey the law. People just don’t expect anyone to actually follow all rules without exception.2 Notes: 1 Brandon Schoettle & Michael Sivak, A Preliminary Analysis of Real-World Crashes Involving Self-Driving Vehicles, The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, October 2015.…
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Indaba
“Indaba” (pronounced IN-DAR-BAH), comes from the Zulu and Xhosa people of southern Africa, and is used to simplify discussions between many parties. When things got tricky at the climate-change summit in Paris, indabas where held at all hours of the day. An indaba is designed to allow each part to speak personally and state their…
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Abolish human rentals
abolishhumanrentals.org (David Ellerman) makes principled arguments against the rental of human beings. By analogy, inalienable rights invalidate slavery. People today cannot willfully sell themselves into slavery, even without coercion. Legally and socially slavery is unacceptable even with the consent of the slave. The same inalienable rights also invalidate the rental of humans. Human rentals bears…
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Upplösningen av mänskliga värden leder till förintelse
Maciej Zaremba recenserar Timothy Snyders nya bok Black earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning i DN 2015-11-23 och ser spår som leder till idag. Maciej Zaremba skriver: Timothy Snyder börjar med upphovet. Han gör en nyläsning av ”Mein Kampf” som får mig att inse att jag, som de flesta, måste ha förträngt det mest…
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Clean language
Here is Penny Tompkins and James Lawley article on Less is More … The Art of Clean Language, which introduces Clean Language developed by David Grove. Related posts: The powers of six Clean questions
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Jo Freeman’s essay on The Tyranny of Structurelessness is about the tyranny of ”elites”, where an ”elite” is defined as ”a small group of people who have power over a larger group of which they are part”. The problem with these ”elites” is that they don’t have ”direct responsibility to that larger group, and often…
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EU:s miljödiesel finns inte på riktigt
Susanna Baltscheffsky, chefredaktör för NyTeknik, skriver i sin LEDARE 2015-10-07 att EU:s miljödiesel inte finns på riktigt. Hon skriver: “Man baxnar över att utsläppen tillåts vara mycket större i verligheten än vad testvärdena i labbet visar“. Ja, verkligen! Detta är ett exempel på att regelverk och certifiering inte spelar så stor roll om man egentligen…