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Ill read some reviews about the book. It might not be what i'm looking for. Ill try to read a chapter or two. One article that constantly is bugging my subconscious brain lately is this read: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/01/28/productivity-for-precious-snowflak…

Ribbonfarm is something pretty great by the way. Ive recently just discovered it.

I generally find that there is void in the literature concerning the intimacy of hands on vs just hiring what on the surface seems as the best players in the field. How is this idea related to opensource? Well take a great author for instance. Like Stephen King. Only he can write "The shining" the way it was written. There are numerous copycats that have tried since. I feel software is a little like that. In the way you build an inverted pyramid. If the pieces start to lack in quality the end product will be exponential worse because of it.

So you can hire the best players in the game sure. Spend a lot of money. But they wont create a new "The shining" They will probably create another book no body reads.

The antidote to all current institutionalized work:

Pursue network collaboration rather than institutionalized work. Ive been researching a few books on the matter the last couple of years like: Clay Sharky "here comes everybody" T. L FriedMan "The world is flat" and Rework and Remote from 37signals (basecamp) as well as numerous others on the subject. My current thinking is that most institutions hasn't kept up with the pace of technology, and are often too rooted in old ways of doing things. Bluntly put: You end up spending more time on strategizing against your collogues than actually solving problems with them. Example: your PM asks how long it takes to complete feature A. You say 1 week, she says ok. Then it doesn't take 1 week but 2. Now you are looking at a lot of late nights or all the blame or both. So by default you should say 2 weeks. Now you strategising. Creative work is extremely volatile, sometimes things take no time at all, other times they take a while. Administration still think of creative work as a linear thing. Anyway you see were this is going.