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Definitions - financialisation is reducing things to their most calculable amounts. So: David Graeber’s social debt versus monetary debt. | |||
Distils down to a worldview that analogue, informal, requiring judgment, requiring [[metis]] is expensive, slow and unscalable and therefore ''bad''. | |||
====The desire for digital certainty==== | ====The desire for digital certainty==== | ||
[[James C. Scott]]’s observation that a top-down organisation can only operate by what it sees, which necessarily misses nuance. | [[James C. Scott]]’s observation that a top-down organisation can only operate by what it sees, which necessarily misses nuance. | ||
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[[Averagarianism]] | [[Averagarianism]] | ||
[[Outsourcing]] and [[offshoring]] as the relentless [[financialisation]] of the internal firm. | |||
The {{br|Peter Principle}} that we rise to our own level of incompetence so will be dispositionally bad at the hard parts of our job. The basic narcissism or Dunning Krugerism of those prepared to do what it takes to climb the greasy pole required to want to be a chief executive officer or politician - those who want the job enough to get it | The {{br|Peter Principle}} that we rise to our own level of incompetence so will be dispositionally bad at the hard parts of our job. The basic narcissism or Dunning Krugerism of those prepared to do what it takes to climb the greasy pole required to want to be a chief executive officer or politician - those who want the job enough to get it | ||
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It is there but we really have to want it - and stand up for it. | It is there but we really have to want it - and stand up for it. | ||
James C Scott: [[Metis]]. | |||
Chris Anderson’s {{Br|The Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand}}: there really ''is'' a long tail out there — proverbial doom metal merchants lecturing insightfully on Nietzsche — but we are allowing it to wither on the vine. Our moral responsibility, if we want to keep it, is to support it. But are they dying out like local bookstores? We need to nurture them. | |||
The informal and formal lines of information in any organisation - in this take [[Jane Jacobs]], [[desire lines]] | The informal and formal lines of information in any organisation - in this take [[Jane Jacobs]], [[desire lines]] | ||
====The battleground: onworld v offworld==== | ====The battleground: onworld v offworld==== | ||