by W. Watson | May 12, 2024 | Open Source
The most difficult problems with organic groups are problems of strategy. The essence of strategy is making decisions that take into account other people’s decisions. There are notable attempts at large group strategy that usually involve some variation of...
by W. Watson | May 11, 2024 | Open Source
The problem of fairness, also known as the problem of fair division among game theorists, is a mix of psychology and strategy. A common intuition about fairness procedures is that every procedure can be ‘gamed’. Another intuition is that fairness is too...
by W. Watson | May 11, 2024 | Open Source
The paradox of control lies in how giving it away can acquire more of it. Rather than acquiring and retaining control through normal means, decentralized and distributed control actually relinquishes control to the populace. While decentralizing pushes control...
by W. Watson | May 9, 2024 | Open Source
The question is whether for this purpose it is better that the holder of coercive power should confine himself in general to creating conditions under which the knowledge and initiative of individuals are given the best scope so that they can plan most successfully;...
by W. Watson | May 9, 2024 | Open Source
The Effects of Hierarchy on Education and Vocation An essential part of the so called E-Myth1 concerning starting a business is the idea that 1 basically, people don’t matter. That is to say processes matter more than people, at least with respect to hierarchies. The...
