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Any [[metrics]], balance sheet, [[org chart]], projection or discounted cashflow analysis — ''any'' [[formal]] accounting for the intensely human activity of doing business jettisons much of what is important about it. The [[map]] can never be more than a schematic. It cannot convey the grandeur — or the ''horror'' — of the [[territory]]. The jettisoning is part of the exercise: it is, itself to make a judgment about what is and is not important. It is to extract a [[signal]] from [[hubbub|noise]]. That signal is ad hoc, imaginary, a creative work, and by no means exclusive to the hubbub: there are ''infinite'' array of signals we could take out of the hubbub; the ones we do are determined by our cultural fabric, which is made of all the decisions, signals, and institutions we have already built. This relativity terrifies “right thinking people”, but there is no way around it: it is best just to [[ignorance|ignore]] it.  
Any [[metrics]], balance sheet, [[org chart]], projection or discounted cashflow analysis — ''any'' [[formal]] accounting for the intensely human activity of doing business jettisons much of what is important about it. The [[map]] can never be more than a schematic. It cannot convey the grandeur — or the ''horror'' — of the [[territory]]. The jettisoning is part of the exercise: it is, itself to make a judgment about what is and is not important. It is to extract a [[signal]] from [[hubbub|noise]]. That signal is ad hoc, imaginary, a creative work, and by no means exclusive to the hubbub: there are ''infinite'' array of signals we could take out of the hubbub; the ones we do are determined by our cultural fabric, which is made of all the decisions, signals, and institutions we have already built. This relativity terrifies “right thinking people”, but there is no way around it: it is best just to [[ignorance|ignore]] it.  


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====Sidebar on [[ignore|Ignorance]]====
Sidebar on [[Ignorance]]: in a world where every communication is tracked, kept, logged, stored and discoverable, where “what you see is all there is” we should not underestimate the perfidious power of ignoring things. The {{poh}} refers: the number of smoking gun emails that went unacknowledged, unresponded to, that left their recipient with the plausible deniability — I did not see it, I did not read it that way, ''I just don’t recall'' — could fill volumes.
In a world where every communication is tracked, kept, logged, stored and discoverable, where “[[what you see is all there is]]” we should not underestimate the perfidious power of ignoring things. The {{poh}} refers: the number of smoking gun emails that went unacknowledged, unresponded to, that left their recipient with the plausible deniability — I did not see it, I did not read it that way, ''I just don’t recall'' — could fill volumes.


The culture of fear in organisations leads to two kinds of ignorance: the canny will not respond on the record at all — any pretext for not doing so (an inappropriate tone, hyperbole, anger, however justifiable) — buttresses that decision. In a perfectly  passive aggressive organisation with uneasy peace, the discontented are discouraged, on pain of censure, from even raising objections, whereupon no need for silence as a strategy even arises.
The culture of fear in organisations leads to two kinds of ignorance: the canny will not respond on the record at all — any pretext for not doing so (an inappropriate tone, hyperbole, anger, however justifiable) — buttresses that decision. In a perfectly  passive aggressive organisation with uneasy peace, the discontented are discouraged, on pain of censure, from even raising objections, whereupon no need for silence as a strategy even arises.
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