Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Sam Cannon

Sam Cannon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:06:31 GMT

The Web is developing like a human, and when you think of where we are now, the buzz is “social, social, social.”
We not only have a new social space to explore, but also have a training job ahead of us. As we step into common
space, we see humanity with all it’s warts. Spammers and swindlers are lurking around every corner one traverses on the way to a goal. But the goals can be gold nuggets.

In order for the mechanism to work properly, it will need a little widsom from Abe Maslow. We will need to manage our
new social world, and good management requires mentoring. Maslow would look at the Web and apply eupsychian management principles. If we start with his #1 assumption that everyone in the group can be trusted, then we will obviously need more than
one Web. I think he would make two: the D-web and the B-web, along with a set of vocabularistic and reputation-oriented passports to the B-web. The rest would be left behind as noise and not drag down the B-web. Closest analog now is .edu.

Perhaps “eupsychianizing” could be added to democratizing!

Sam Cannon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:21:23 GMT

There are digital organizers (with Ramanujan mechanomprphs in the high tails and savants in the low tails) and there are analog organizers who simply know that there is a document somewhere and will morph tools when needed (B-organizers).
Abe Maslow discriminates between these two in his “Theory Z” (www.maslow.org/sub/TheoryZ.php).

So climb onto the other side of the tube.
Divergent mind vs. Convergent mind?

And as Drucker pointed out in his “Management for the 21st Century”(?) book, there are readers and listeners.
Well, add divergent and convergent, and get a matrix. Are you leading your fish to a goal, or giving him more fuel
for his ideaphoria? I guess this would mean to hire writers and boiler room folks according to their Weltanschauungen.
It’s really nothing more than hierarchy and UNIX tuning.

Sam Cannon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:12:27 GMT

Would suggest that you look at Maslow’s B-values in terms of the “things” that seduce tribes into working for them.