- Another Brain Jam
- graph/network/systems theory
- centralized organizations
- good for control
- power is at the top
- people fall in line or they are influenced
- some realize this
- were never really tainted
- had a big fallout
- people at the bottom don't realize this
- what is wrong
- besides that those at bottom are not able to make their own decisions
- ripe for corruption
- big chance that somebody will take power with ill-intentions
- the power to make decisions that cause great change
- two kinds of power
- defined
- what
- goal
- what the company does
- how
- you can have one or the other, or both
- the power to give power?
- decentralized organization
- power is evenly distributed
- ideally
- everybody has same ability to make decisions that cause same amount of change
- can be bad
- conflicts take longer to resolve
- changes come from lowest common denominator
- decentralization
- democracy?
- works best in small groups
- because of shared values and goals
- can scale if values and goals can
- influence
- fucks up decentralized organization
- ability to make other agree with you is powerful
- creates temporary nested centralized networks!
- in a network
- if you have a big hub
- it is its own nested centralized network
- what is the difference between
- being influenced by a person and not?
- deciding on your own and being influenced?
- peer pressure
- bad when used for good?
- is there a way to decide to agree with peers and not be influenced?
- the web
- possible to decentralize by centralizing, centralizating which improves decentralization
- like infastructure
- give everybody the power to do something
- you've decentralized the ability to do something
- you've centralized power to do something
- philosophy
- is a grip on reality a good thing?
- is change good?
- what if it means giving up everything you love
- what if you love new things just as much as old?
- reality can change
- can it change so drastically that you change your lifes ambitions
- what is the difference between