It occurred to me that ideas in Wardley Mapping, specifically the evolution through stages from Bespoke to Mainstream to Ubiquitous for any product or service would resonate with the "do it professionally" paragraph. Simon Wardley has put a lot of thought in that, worth it checking out.
Thanks for the tip! I skimmed the first tenth of Wardley's 700-page(!) book on the subject. Starts with Sun Tzu's "Art of War" and the Battle of Thermopylae, moves on to using Tengwar in some kind of super-nerd flex, bringing in the Stacey Matrix and K-Waves that we covered in Social Change, and I'll be honest I lost patience after the first half. I will say that his idea of evolution from Genesis to Custom Built to Product to Commodity does track this pretty closely through the Industrial part of what I'm talking about, but doesn't seem to explain why some things almost loop back to hyper-customized or auto-bespoke. Obviously very few people are building their own washing machine and generators, so this may be more of a Conspicuous Consumption thing.
Excellent review! Brought me back to Kenneth Boulding's "The Image" which was one of the early influential books for me.
Hi Tristan, thanks for the write up.
It occurred to me that ideas in Wardley Mapping, specifically the evolution through stages from Bespoke to Mainstream to Ubiquitous for any product or service would resonate with the "do it professionally" paragraph. Simon Wardley has put a lot of thought in that, worth it checking out.
Thanks for the tip! I skimmed the first tenth of Wardley's 700-page(!) book on the subject. Starts with Sun Tzu's "Art of War" and the Battle of Thermopylae, moves on to using Tengwar in some kind of super-nerd flex, bringing in the Stacey Matrix and K-Waves that we covered in Social Change, and I'll be honest I lost patience after the first half. I will say that his idea of evolution from Genesis to Custom Built to Product to Commodity does track this pretty closely through the Industrial part of what I'm talking about, but doesn't seem to explain why some things almost loop back to hyper-customized or auto-bespoke. Obviously very few people are building their own washing machine and generators, so this may be more of a Conspicuous Consumption thing.