institution building
building the institutions of the future as the old ones are consumed by entropy and bureaucracy
by rob hardy · updated 1mo ago
institution building
Although many have tried many times, it is not really possible to command scenius into being. Every start up company, or university would like their offices to be an example of scenius. The number of cities in the world hoping to recreate the scenius of Silicon Valley is endless, but very few have achieved anything close. Innumerable art scenes beg
... See morefrom Scenius, or Communal Genius by Kevin Kelly
rob hardy added 1mo ago
when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
from A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
rob hardy added 1mo ago
- Conway’s Law:
‘For any organization that builds systems, the systems they produce reflect the communication structures of that organization.’
If your organization is inefficient and disjointed, or dictatorial and myopic, it shows in your products.from Tweet by James Rosen-Birch
rob hardy added 3mo ago
- My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?!
It's a "network university," which is our fancy term for a new type of social institution: one that transforms an existing network into a social commons where ppl can learn, do research, and create groundbreaking wor... See morefrom Tweet by Tyler Alterman
rob hardy added 7mo ago
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