[p2p-research] Order .. is boring

[Michel Bauwens]

well, desirability is one thing, achieving it is quite another ...

Michel


On 4/23/09, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That does make sense, Michel.
>
> I guess I'm in transition to that model.
>
> I always thought that it takes a certain personality for this path to be a
> most natural and inevitable one, but maybe it's a much more universally
> desired path than I thought.
>
> I'll elaborate on how I ultimately arrived at this model and what I had to
> do to get here... that is once I get to the next stage in the transition...
>
> Thanks for this enlightening feedback.
>
> Marc
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> in my experience, this is how high-paid consultants work, lots of free
>> time and permanent learning to be able to zoom in once there is a contract,
>> with one day paying for five ... this is partly why they are so expensive,
>> the other reason is that each consultant can rely on a staff of assistants
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>   On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:36 PM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> For a long while now, maybe several years or even decades, I lost track,
>>> I have lived in relative self-enforced chaos simply because I get very bored
>>> with predictability and routine.
>>>
>>> Obviously, to get paid (the kind of money I used to get paid) I leveraged
>>> my expertise living in chaos to launch creative transformations at the
>>> companies I worked for.
>>>
>>> But at some point I could no longer take it anymore and decided to live
>>> for the moment .. .and during that transition I wasnt working for anyone for
>>> a couple of years and eventually found myself homeless and now back working
>>> for someone although with more freedom at lower pay
>>>
>>> I find myself spending 80% of my time thinking out loud, debating, and
>>> expressing myself through the things, ideas, music, etc that I find funny,
>>> interesting, odd, awful, etc
>>>
>>> And yet I find that what I do in the rest of my time (the 20%) is
>>> infinitely more magical (in this case iPhone development, working on several
>>> apps at once) in that the time I supposedly "waste" allows me to make huge
>>> evolutionary leaps in the design and ideas
>>>
>>> So it's the opposite of what Google allows their employees to do (they
>>> let them dedicate 20% of their time on their own projects - or at least they
>>> used to) ... I think letting employees dedicate 80% of their time to
>>> whatever they want to do and 20% to the task they sign up for AND then
>>> giving them full freedom in designing the product or solving whatever
>>> problem AND have their salary be based in large part on the success of the
>>> product/solution in the market then they would have breakthroughs every
>>> single day, IMO.
>>>
>>> If I ever was to get funded again and build an R&D team that's exactly
>>> the approach I would take.
>>>
>>> It makes sense to me. I'm not sure it makes sense to anyone else.
>>>
>>> Just wanted to share it and see if anyone else is living in the same
>>> state.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Marc Fawzi
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>>
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>
> Marc Fawzi
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