Moved to Kolektiva.Social @woodbark@weirder.earth

It appears I can not migrate my account-forwarding to kolektiva.social properly from here. I am sorry for that. I am moving as of today, 10-04-2023 to @woodbark@kolektiva.social

Feel free to follow along.

I Refuse to Become Cynical

Simply speaking, a stories purpose is to transform someone's life

What I can not stand is, when one or two colleagues post interesting Papers (or what they find interesting) into the work channels and they neither sum up what this paper is about (hints given in titles) nor a short summary.
So these colleagues had the time to read (great!) and found something interesting (even greater!) but can not share either? Feels like a university research dump again...

You can buy yourself flowers, but I will choose ferments

Time for Knochenfabrik or ChaosZ

the definition of Anarchy as the absence of Hierarchy is at least not my End to my means. This is not my perspective on it.

A society without hierarchies does not make it an anarchist society, and I think this comes from the individualist approach to anarchism first and foremost. The angle often comes via Stirner and Tucker.

Where does the idea come from, that anarchism is in general against hierarchies? I mean i get that in direct inter-personal relationships, but in cascading relationships? Where does this notion come from?

In this era, having a perspective is the valuable thing. A perspective is a point of view, a specific, directed understanding, an opinion on what matters, and what does not matter.

hey @lilletale and @mod_station is it possible to maybe get an Invite for Todon.nl? I want to change instances once more and guess Todon might be the best idea (once again)...

I am thinking about switching instances once more. It needs to be English based, open to leftist thought, and well moderated, but less strong de-federating than my current one...oh and big enough to have some interactions from the home time line...

"A fundamental thinking error in organizations is that managers believe they are needed for alignment."

If you believe a structure needs hierarchy, organize the levels by purpose. The purpose must be stable. Each function on/at a level must have a clear purpose. Otherwise, this function is nonsense.

It happens again...I am suddenly fighting against the matrix (organization approach) again by an annoyed manager who hopes a matrix org will solve all communication problems.

I suggested working with delegation levels and communication mapping before formalizing any matrix org. The living hell that is a matrix org comes with double management streams, turf wars and less engaged work streams (because suddenly, people can have a say from two angles of the matrix). Better to let teams evolve by practice (or set up by delegation and purpose).

Edison, it was Edison

The day you can point to the genius of a person and say that it was actually coke usage...

Maybe an additional thought. I believe in the bottom-up approach to organizational development. "Top-down only" does not work anymore (neither has it ever), so any approach that hinders the bottom-up creation of structures will fail and get too static in uncertain environments (and as we learned over the last years, our environments are always uncertain and emergent).

The approach must even be bottom-up-first, while initiative can be delegated from the top down.

"The Holacracy Constitution has no concept of bottom-up emergence" And this is why I did not understand the hype about Holacracy about 7 years ago.