Read/write: Difference between revisions

A “natural language” read/write process — human construal — is, by contrast and by necessity, a collaboration: an open, dynamic, incomplete, insoluble system. It is undetermined; its rules, boundaries and participants change according to agencies beyond the control of any participant. A speech act can be (from the speaker’s perspective) be misconstrued, ignored, disputed or reinterpreted. It is complex.

The larger an organisation is, the more that good governance demands it be run like a turing machine. A sole trader can make whatever decisions she likes. An employer of five can comfortably delegate wide discretion to her staff, as she has good view of what they are doing. A firm of five thousand, this is clearly less so.