non-hierarchical Sam
Dave Winer: So, is your brain
really hierarchic? Nope. Mine is definately
intertwingly. Regular expressions are filed under BOTH Perl
and Python. Can't find a screwdriver? Perhaps a butter
knife will do. I don't divide people up into east coast vs
west coast, or even blonde, brunette, and redheads... all I see is
the code. (multiple semi-obscure references in that last sentence).
Hierarchies are overrated. Bureaucracies are hierarchies. Hierarchies are Old World. We need to move beyond hierarchies to synergics.
Posted by Dan Shafer at
Heirarchies are under-rated.
I'm not gonna buy the assertion that everyone thinks in heirarchies. I don't think of things in heirarchies.
But heirarchies are under-rated. They are a proven tool for organising systems, governments, churches, and, yes, bureaucracies. But just because a bureaucracy is heirarchical doesn't make their concept of a heirarchies bad. Being "Old World" shouldn't be a value-judgment either.
Heirarchies are a mature technology. Use where appropriate.
Posted by Mark A. Hershberger at
smooth space and striated. the intertwingular crystallises, is chipped away in places, dissolves elsewhere, persists around a central core. but to deny the co-existence and the ebb and flow (it's a polarity that's a polarity between 'polarised' and 'unpolarised') is to deny the possibility of Kuhnian revolution, of productive degeneration and reformulation. ('a thousand plateaus' is your friend.)
Posted by anonymous at
"all I see is the code."
Humm... I thought it was just all data :)
Posted by Tomas Restrepo at