As a theorist for ‘Hybrid Environments’ (what I call any techno-social or eco-social system) and long time business consultant I have thoughts and opinions on organisations, how they work, what they do, and what they could be.
This category collects some of my ‘thinking in public’ on organisational forms, software and the psychic impact it can have on a workplace, types of corporate memory and more.
I write in public so I can be corrected. If you read anything interesting here, or wish to vent about why I am wrong, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
- Lore as Lens | 2313
The growing importance of lore reflects the rise of a new kind cultural sense-making and social technology. - DAOs: Governance vs Coordination | 221221st century meme culture and real-time chat have combined in DAOs to create the rolling AGM as a novel participatory form
- Collective Endeavours | 2211One band is a collective endeavour, two bands make a scene.
- The Inmates Have Taken Over the Asylum | 2119This phrase is powerful anti-worker propaganda that has dominated the public imagination for a century. If we are going to get DAOs and more Coops etc we must push past 100 years of metaphor.
- Conductors and Coordination | 2112Coordination online, Soviet Moscow’s First Symphonic Ensemble, Sacred Harp, Gershwin, The Baton, Wands and Alister Crowley.
- Cut It in Half
Cut everything in half and lower your expectations. - Corporate Folklore | 2037Strange idiosyncratic weirdness in organisations, database admins are worse than 40k Tech-Priests, Corporate Folklore, Narrative Strategy, FML Numbers, and more.
- Role For A Thought Leadership Check | 2008How DnD, Stats and Simulation may have fucked up modernity.
- Make No Distinction | 2004Slack is the open plan office of the software world.
- Jay’s 1 / 3 / 10 / 30 rule of scaling a project or organisation1 / 3 / 10 / 30 rule of scaling a startup, project or organisation
- Organisational Memory | 1933Inside any institution there are 5 kinds of Organisational Memory.
- Temporary Total Institutions | 1932Introducing the idea of a Temporary Total Institution, as a counterpoint to the (thankfully) diminishing interest in the Temporary Autonomous Zone.
