[email protected] wrote at 09/16/2013 02:53 PM:
Such a Beast will be slow moving. All those people need to be motivated to clarify and then solve some problem posed to them.
I'm not so sure. I admit that the current trend toward flat corporate hierarchies works toward the requirement to motivate all those people. But the old style, autocratic, specialize everything, command and control structure doesn't need such motivation. Incentive satisfices. There only need be an elite core (cybernetically augmented with their data warehouses) of people who understand how every specialized piece fits into the whole. And that elite core can be relatively small. I don't have a concrete example of it. But I hear enough people chanting about how they want to be paid more to do their mindless jobs, that I can imagine there are enough people willing to be paid to do whatever they're told ... of course, those tools don't mix well with the tools who do invest their energies into learning technology. But, again, it strikes me that an organization like Cato could lure those (often libertarian minded) tools in, hypnotize them with naive rhetoric, then reinforce their training with high salaries.
That doesn't many there aren't asymmetric opportunities. Groking a big system isn't just a question of insisting on interfaces owned and implemented by 3rd parties. Interfaces are the easy part, IMO.
I agree on both counts. I'm just talking it out to see where I might fit in. -- ⇒⇐ glen e. p. ropella I can tell just by the climate, and I can tell just by the style
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