Guess like a Grandmaster
I’ve been having an ongoing debate recently with @tav about productivity. It stemmed from my sending him the Rework book for his birthday, in yet another quixotic attempt to steer him away from his self-imposed perfectionism.
In this debate, I found myself rehashing the received wisdom about productivity. You know the terminology. Release early release often (ooh err missus), lean, agile, iterate.
Tav Describes Pecus
Following some recent discussions on the esp Google Group, Tav emailed in this clairification of Pecus. I thought I’d reproduce the email here as it relates to my previous post It’s about Actualisation and means there’s a permalink to the documentation.
It’s About Actualisation
In the summer of 2007 around a hundred people gathered in a large room in East London. They were there to find out about and take part in 24 weeks. As evidenced here 24 weeks was a project to create an “evolutionary platform” to “enable communities to communicate and work together”. It was, in short, a gathering of well meaning folk who wanted to make the world a better place.
I was only there for a few minutes but I caught a vignette during which Mamading Ceesay perked the crowd up into spontaneous applause. I, sadly, can’t remember the short speech he gave verbatim but I think I remember his core point: we (the people in that room) were cultural creatives and there were more of us out there than we thought and if we worked together we could really change the world. (I paraphrase badly and beg Mamading’s forgiveness). One of the people there was Mia Bittar. A colleague of mine at the time, Mia was and is a talented and committed documentary producer. She was there to find out what she could be doing to help. Unfortunately, she never got an answer to her question.
