Political Machine
Played around with The Political Machine today. Hilarious, and offers some pretty good insight on basic grassroots network development, recommended for anyone who wants their kids to get a handle on the bloated system in place to try to scale democracy (NOTE2: These guys in their forum are on the right track), or for anyone looking to waste a few hours and a few bucks.
NOTE: There is an upcoming post on GG’s and equilibrium, I’m trying to get the graphics together on my new machine.
Future of Indian Outsourcing
Someone I know has been trying to put together a marketing analysis firm – his original intention was to outsource the entirety of his company (minus him) to India. This quickly fell apart when the cultural context in combination with the economy’s fluidity sapped him of momentum – rapid turnover made him move operations back to the US –
This environment is unsuitable for innovation and is running purely off the acceleration provided by globalization. This is unsustainable. More later.
Istanbul Airport
Had a hunch this wouldn’t be an accident – IOL –
The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons Organization, a hardline group linked to the main Kurdish guerrilla group, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said it started the blaze, which destroyed much of the cargo terminal at the airport, according to the Netherlands-based Firat News Agency’s website.
Gold and textile cargo were destroyed in addition to the building. No one was killed. Another step along the GG trajectory.
Exporting Dirty Politics
WaTimes – As our best political consultants go abroad for more opportunities (the gap between elections does not provide a steady income) we see our
“The ads had an immediate effect in the polls, and … that’s when he started once again blaming everyone for conspiracies — it was the pollsters, it was the mass media, it was Fox. That’s been his line for some years to talk about conspiracies against him,” said Mr. Grayson, who has written a book about Mr. Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor.
There could be some significant impact on foreign political systems if this type of globalization is sustained (already shaky governments isolate themselves as they devolve into purely targeting one another as the people go ignored). Something to keep an eye out for.
More On Disruptive Innovation
More framework for the friction between Barnett and Robb – link to concept –
By doing what good companies are supposed to do – cater to their most profitable customers and focus investments where profit margins are most attractive – established industry leaders are on a path of Sustaining Innovations and leave themselves open for disruptive technologies to bury them. This happens because the resource allocation processes of established companies are designed to maximize profits through sustaining innovations, which essentially involve designing better and better mousetraps for existing customers or proven market segments.
Players with a vested interest in sustaining innovations have inherintly ungrounded OODA loops (they’re operating on providing efficiency – development in a box if you will – rather than reacting to the shifting environment). This is where I accuse Barnett of operating from a bubble perspective. He thinks we’ll just have to get better at doing Iraq.
Disruptive innovators (Al Qaeda, not Robb – who provides framework to their actions) are nimble and rapidly adapt to the changing environment (their constraints force them to). Which equates to both being inside the enemy’s loop and being firmly grounded in the environment. They zoom to success while the original players are inappropriately focusing on making their processes better – all of which equates to the doom loop.