On our obsession with scale and efficiency: Could this be just a symptom, of a runaway desire to measure and evaluate, to attach some positive or negative value to the results? Efficiency and scale you can measure. You must measure. Otherwise, how do you know by how much something has scaled, or how efficient it is?
It is said about our economical system that it has become increasingly one dimnesional: more and more things are measured in money, and only that.
Data and Goals help us measure and compare, they are the basis for any measurements.
If this problem that we cannot let go of measuring is close to the root, is a meaningful path then in the direction of not doing so? Not sure that work in organizations can be that way, in the organizations we have today. They are built on that. Our whole 'mainstream system' is.
Is it meaningful to explore "simplifying" not in the sense of 'un-scaling', 'de-accelerating', 'measurable adding simplicity and lightness', but in the sense of disengaging from a contious OODA-Loop of measuring our success, evaluating it by the common metrics (money, number of parts, weight,...)?
On our obsession with scale and efficiency: Could this be just a symptom, of a runaway desire to measure and evaluate, to attach some positive or negative value to the results? Efficiency and scale you can measure. You must measure. Otherwise, how do you know by how much something has scaled, or how efficient it is?
It is said about our economical system that it has become increasingly one dimnesional: more and more things are measured in money, and only that.
Data and Goals help us measure and compare, they are the basis for any measurements.
If this problem that we cannot let go of measuring is close to the root, is a meaningful path then in the direction of not doing so? Not sure that work in organizations can be that way, in the organizations we have today. They are built on that. Our whole 'mainstream system' is.
Is it meaningful to explore "simplifying" not in the sense of 'un-scaling', 'de-accelerating', 'measurable adding simplicity and lightness', but in the sense of disengaging from a contious OODA-Loop of measuring our success, evaluating it by the common metrics (money, number of parts, weight,...)?