The Shirky Principle
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The Shirky Principle
PEOPLE IN SYSTEMS DO NOT DO WHAT THE SYSTEM SAYS THEY ARE DOING.
University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal brands alongside deals. Startup founders optimize funding metrics over customer needs.
THE SYSTEM ITSELF DOES NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS IT IS DOING.
The restaurant business is actually the alcohol business. T... See more
University professors chase grants, not student enlightenment. VCs nurture personal brands alongside deals. Startup founders optimize funding metrics over customer needs.
THE SYSTEM ITSELF DOES NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS IT IS DOING.
The restaurant business is actually the alcohol business. T... See more
Tina He • The Art of Understanding What's Going On
process of accreditation, usually entailing many years of higher education. Persons in authority have had to jump through hoops of fire to achieve their lofty posts—and feel disinclined to pay attention to anyone who has not done the same. Lasting authority, however, resides in institutions rather than in the persons who act and speak on their beha
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
When we innovate only in terms of a solutionist framework, Easterling argues in her book Medium Design , we optimize for static outcomes wedded to the status quo of product-market fit. Solutions are one-time fixes, usually implemented by someone else, which break as soon as the context they’re responding to changes (which it does, constantly)
... See moreGuy Mackinnon-Little • The Product is the Process: Prototyping Reality with Public Assembly – ZORA ZINE
