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I’ve been on a gigantic yak-shave over the last week, across 3 threads, 53, 61 and 62 in my meta-thread, linked end-to-end so you can start reading here. 53: automating project management 61: project managing network effects 62 anti-network effects
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53. Automating project management twitter.com/vgr/status/140…
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The general idea I’m groping towards is connecting project management, OODA loops, network effects, and potential fields in a useful way to try and get at why project management both sucks as a task, and if done poorly ends up doing more harm than good.
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Hard to tell if anyone besides me is interested in this particular headspace. People liking/RTing these threads don’t fall into any obvious pattern, so not sure where this belongs socially. Somewhere between potential theory, productivity, complex systems, conflict theory.
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Ahhh, I've also been circling Andy Grove's line "first let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos" for a while on a parallel track. This is kinda the how-to thread sequence. First search hit is from 2016!
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"First let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos" (Andy Grove) applies to how you manage your own brain too.
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Then in 2017. Twitter search is great for doing detective work on your brain, it's better than therapy. It's like longitudinal protocol analysis.
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"First let chaos reign" [me]😬[/me] "Rein in the chaos" Been on the edge of chaos for almost a year now
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In May 2020, here I am actually declaring an intention to develop a management model based on the quote.
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Trying to develop a management model inspired by the internet Andy Grove: First, let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos Internet: First let chaos reign, then... ooh squirrel
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Passing mention in a thread on media of management that I'd forgotten I'd done
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None of the 3 vertices is stable. You kinda have to rotate through them. Generalization of Andy Grove line "first let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos." Just a 3-way version.
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Hmm. Should I call this whole theory Chaos Rain Theory? CRT? Is the namespace collision with critical race theory, cathode ray tube etc. funny or distracting?
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