Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
organization
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
simple way literature
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
art bottom
Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
top-down stable
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
jobs
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.
design made organisms
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
order organization growth
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.
funny scratches kind
I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.
softball games
Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.
fashion taken reflection
What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.
football thinking people
This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.
technology born
Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
two investing sin
Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
helping-others differences making-a-difference
It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.