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The Tyranny of Stucturelessness
Ostensibly, having a flat organization is a good idea. You know, everyone should be equal and have the same rights, blablabla. But not having a formally defined power structure would only lead to the tyranny of structurelessness, where informal power structures form spontaneously from preexisting social relations between members, producing leaders... See more
Zefram Lou • Why Voting Tokens Are F**king Horrible, And 4 Ways to Fix Them
the the truth nobody wants to say out loud is that most people with authority didn’t earn it.
they inherited it.
they faked it.
they politicked their way into it.
they sat in meetings, approved other people’s work, & called it “leadership.”
they were great at navigating the game of perception.
they were terrible at building anything real.
and now the... See more
they inherited it.
they faked it.
they politicked their way into it.
they sat in meetings, approved other people’s work, & called it “leadership.”
they were great at navigating the game of perception.
they were terrible at building anything real.
and now the... See more
the death of expertise
Groups are hard to form in the first place. Think of how many random Discord communities you were invited into the past few years and how many are still active. “Organization for collective action takes a good deal of time to emerge” observes Olson.