TWoPS at first-hand
Been somewhat withdrawn over the past couple of weeks, struggling to deal with one of the more stupid consequences of TWoPS (That WOrst Possible System) – namely getting paid work, which I ‘must’ do in order to be able to …
Category: Power and responsibility
Responsibility-based frameworks
More on TWPS
A few more comments on That Worst Possible System (TWPS), whilst I’m still bashing the ideas around in my head. It’s interesting to look at some of the other artefacts and distortions of TWPS, aka the ‘normal’ money-based (or more …
The worst possible system
Another idea that’s been brewing as part of Mythquake. Map out the stereotype life-cycle, as the time baseline of a graph: from teenager, to first leaving home, to getting together with a partner, having kids, kids start to go to …
An everyday tyranny?
Been offline for a few days with an annoying DNS problem (my mistake, ultimately :-{), but came across a brilliant if disturbing article by Henry Porter in London’s “The Independent”: We’re all Suspects Now [behind paywall]. Mainly about the steady …
A problem of power
Perhaps the bleakest dichotomy of all: the physics definition of ‘power’ is “the ability to do work”, whereas most social definitions are more like “the ability to avoid work”… Therein lies perhaps the most serious problem for organisational effectiveness: which …