There's a kind of tool-based analogue of @conways_law: the patterns of our collaborative tools determine the shape of our organization.
Not exactly true, of course. But a fun heuristic to think on...
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Replying to @michael_nielsen @conways_law
I absolutely think that email orgs != Slack orgs != Zoom orgs != phone orgs. One obvious and underremarked mechanism is that they enable people to sort by affinity, become tribes, and then sort by tribe.
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Thus the confusion over “Why is old-line Japanese company still using the fax machine when there are so many better ways to transfer text?” It’s not like they never thought of that. The brains that thought it *left.*
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