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====Adjacent possible==== | ====Adjacent possible==== | ||
The history of innovation, of commercial revolution, is one of inspired connections, lucky hunches and creative routes out of apparent mishap. But to make a serendipitous connection you must put yourself in the way of them, and that means skiing [[off-piste|off the groomed trails]]. The skiing there is harder, requires technical chops, rewards ''care'', but the return is correspondingly greater, the possibility for discovery — if opportunity as well as | The history of innovation, of commercial revolution, is one of inspired connections, lucky hunches and creative routes out of apparent mishap. But to make a serendipitous connection you must put yourself in the way of them, and that means skiing [[off-piste|off the groomed trails]]. The skiing there is harder, requires technical chops, rewards ''care'', but the return is correspondingly greater, the possibility for discovery — if opportunity as well as imminent disaster — more immense. | ||
If you “run on rails” you systematically deny yourself that chance of serendipity. All the more so should you work | If you “run on rails” you systematically deny yourself that chance of serendipity. All the more so should you work remotely — whether on a different floor, at home or in a call centre in Bucharest—, where there can be no “water cooler moments” — those mythical connections when institutional sparks fly, so beloved of CEOs when imploring work-shy staff back to the office — for remote work, in self-imposed physical exile, communicating only digitally, in pre-arranged multi-party meetings with a standing agenda, is about as railish as one could possibly be (hence the JC’s theory that [[COVID]], and [[bring your own premises]], brought to its logical conclusion/reductio ad absurdum the 40-year deprecation of [[subject matter expert]]ise — from “ineffable genius, deserving of an office, a company car, a personal secretary, an expense account and private club membership” through to “battery hen with a probabilistic entitled to space somewhere along a row of Formica trading desks” to “sort out your own accomodation, here is a network account which you can access via two-factor authentication on your personal device, and we've blocked YouTube, Twitter and Reddit BUT NOT [[LinkedIn|LINKEDIN]]” in the manner of a battery hen —that has been the management modernists’ intellectual project.) There is no chance to bump into anyone, no raised eyebrow at the resting state absurdity of it all, no off-colour wisecracks to bring some humanity to the situation (“AND JUST AS WELL”, intones [[human resources]], tersely) — no opportunity to reimagine the way things are currently done. | ||
If we can only evolve by reference to the [[adjacent possible]] — doors to rooms off this particular corridor, with their own doors to potential places elsewhere, and ''one is not permitted to open any of those doors'', then one cannot expect to end up at a place other than the one to which management thinks you should be going. The voyage of discovery never made where management says it would. | If we can only evolve by reference to the [[adjacent possible]] — doors to rooms off this particular corridor, with their own doors to potential places elsewhere, and ''one is not permitted to open any of those doors'', then one cannot expect to end up at a place other than the one to which management thinks you should be going. The voyage of discovery never made where management says it would. | ||
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Do we even ''want'' operational grunts having bright ideas? An 80/20 analysis says, stick to your knitting, kids. Follow the playbook and almost everything will be alright. | Do we even ''want'' operational grunts having bright ideas? An 80/20 analysis says, stick to your knitting, kids. Follow the playbook and almost everything will be alright. | ||
If it isn’t simple enough to reliably leave to an ''actual'' rule-following machine — if there are enough unpredictable scenarios, leaving open outcomes ugly enough to require the intervention of an imaginative human | If it isn’t simple enough to reliably leave to an ''actual'' rule-following machine — if there are enough unpredictable scenarios, leaving open outcomes ugly enough to require the intervention of an imaginative human mind to stave off calamity, then do you really want that intervening hand to belong to an ingenue [[school leaver in Bucharest]]? | ||
Here the modernist programme contradicts itself. Either | Here the modernist programme contradicts itself. Either | ||