On the recycling centre/maker space: the amount of industry waste is crazy. enough to make a grown man cry... tears of inspirational joy! This could be an economic model.
Scenario: we are loosing our knowledge base and this effects organizational behavior on all scales. I have experienced first hand that the managerial capacity to repair, verify, fabricate, etc functionality of parts of industrial process is plummeting. EX: what use to be a rule of thumb to throw away fractional horse power motors if bearings needed to be replaced has gone to an inter-industry norm to throw away 50HP or less. real world example: i threw out a 50HP motor that would cost ~$26K canadian for a new one., the replacement bearings would cost $1000. The work would take ~an extra 2-4 hrs without having a setup. possibly more if including the admin process of configuring suppliers and other admin or ERP system stuff. Therein lies the problem: our society hardly has the managerial capacity to manage workspace , workflow, and revolving admin aspects. The savings is doable as is technically but imagine if the workspace is setup and data-info-knowledge-wisdom models are aligned in tandem with the process and workers.
this is actually a deep interdisciplinary problem with knowledge loss at the core. We have a massive divide between "blue" and "white" collar workers. Seems to be growing with potentials in subcultures to make a comeback. The problem amplifies with the upper management lower management communication gap that is often discussed in organizational academic works - but never with workers!
this points to a huge problem and therefore opportunity! Moreover I haven't read but it seems very obvious: ai will effect white collar jobs more than blue collar. Either way there is money in trash! If $26k motors are being thrown out to scrap metal places then there is a financial incentive to creating organizational models. this is merely one example... i could go on f'days!
Solution: image: junkyard dog with glasses.
role modelling: bring the librarian to the junkyard.
moreover: categorize and create SOP's for "make ready" processes. this will be needed for conditioning to work. EX: if we fuck n chuck a piece of junk onto a property - it will not be appealling. we need to clean it up and sort it propa.
EX2: an old car: will you use this to rebuild this very car? y/N - no , gut it and make the parts ready to hand - potentialize them for as many projects as possible. - this would also be a solution to the functionally fit mentality discussed in design circles, aka seeing the forest through the trees - vehicle sensors can be repurposed to "sense" in other processes.
youtube and the internet have tonnes of info on doing cool stuff with trashed items. But a problem is a lack of work space. "It's not enough to have a dream, one must have a garage" -Sam Zeloof. Hence the landbased organizations requirements. The philosopher Delueze talks about land based projects as well - by literally making common ground and grounding our ideologies this can be a solution to the current Post modern paralysis effecting many aspects of public discourse.
another problem is organizational models are templated in our chrony neo-liberal capitalist paradigms. "The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house" - Audre Lourde. We will need Organizational paradigms as decentralized libraries and bundles of qualities ready for DIY, choose your own adventure "as it happens" deliberately development organizational operations. Good news is the open source world has loads of development on this notion. Open source ecology has good segway into hardware world , however they have some massive bottle necks with organization and collaboration. They need help growing and so does the world.
What is needed is a weirdacalypse, aka a quiet revolution. One where decentralized , "new power" organizations will not just dismantled the masters house, but actually accommodate and help the old masters evolve with newer appropriate technologies. We need to compete in the global market by first co-operating to develop new paradigms. If you're reading you're already doing it. The culture is here and there. But much help is needed socializing and building new institutions. It's all happening
"when the divine has been exiled from the table of serious art and intellectual discussion you have to find it in what elite culture thinks of as trash" - Philip K. Dick
The trash stratum is the place for good design. It houses the divine. The feedback is like jupiter in scorpio - abundent raw and truth at any cost - shit don't lie to me! "ya babay ya" - Austin Powers, "Let's a go" - Super Mario
Yes, we need new organizational structures to take the "junk" and turn it into a source of wealth. I've considered Vehicle Repair CoOperatives, Makerspaces, Tool Libraries... Combining and networking them into a hub of fixing/making/building. These are the sort of things we'll be experimenting with in the Ozarks BioRegional EcoCenter.
It sounds like your experience and thoughts go even deeper on the models/processes that will make these new organizations successful. Thanks for hopping in and coming along for the ride!
On the recycling centre/maker space: the amount of industry waste is crazy. enough to make a grown man cry... tears of inspirational joy! This could be an economic model.
Scenario: we are loosing our knowledge base and this effects organizational behavior on all scales. I have experienced first hand that the managerial capacity to repair, verify, fabricate, etc functionality of parts of industrial process is plummeting. EX: what use to be a rule of thumb to throw away fractional horse power motors if bearings needed to be replaced has gone to an inter-industry norm to throw away 50HP or less. real world example: i threw out a 50HP motor that would cost ~$26K canadian for a new one., the replacement bearings would cost $1000. The work would take ~an extra 2-4 hrs without having a setup. possibly more if including the admin process of configuring suppliers and other admin or ERP system stuff. Therein lies the problem: our society hardly has the managerial capacity to manage workspace , workflow, and revolving admin aspects. The savings is doable as is technically but imagine if the workspace is setup and data-info-knowledge-wisdom models are aligned in tandem with the process and workers.
this is actually a deep interdisciplinary problem with knowledge loss at the core. We have a massive divide between "blue" and "white" collar workers. Seems to be growing with potentials in subcultures to make a comeback. The problem amplifies with the upper management lower management communication gap that is often discussed in organizational academic works - but never with workers!
this points to a huge problem and therefore opportunity! Moreover I haven't read but it seems very obvious: ai will effect white collar jobs more than blue collar. Either way there is money in trash! If $26k motors are being thrown out to scrap metal places then there is a financial incentive to creating organizational models. this is merely one example... i could go on f'days!
Solution: image: junkyard dog with glasses.
role modelling: bring the librarian to the junkyard.
moreover: categorize and create SOP's for "make ready" processes. this will be needed for conditioning to work. EX: if we fuck n chuck a piece of junk onto a property - it will not be appealling. we need to clean it up and sort it propa.
EX2: an old car: will you use this to rebuild this very car? y/N - no , gut it and make the parts ready to hand - potentialize them for as many projects as possible. - this would also be a solution to the functionally fit mentality discussed in design circles, aka seeing the forest through the trees - vehicle sensors can be repurposed to "sense" in other processes.
youtube and the internet have tonnes of info on doing cool stuff with trashed items. But a problem is a lack of work space. "It's not enough to have a dream, one must have a garage" -Sam Zeloof. Hence the landbased organizations requirements. The philosopher Delueze talks about land based projects as well - by literally making common ground and grounding our ideologies this can be a solution to the current Post modern paralysis effecting many aspects of public discourse.
another problem is organizational models are templated in our chrony neo-liberal capitalist paradigms. "The masters tools will never dismantle the masters house" - Audre Lourde. We will need Organizational paradigms as decentralized libraries and bundles of qualities ready for DIY, choose your own adventure "as it happens" deliberately development organizational operations. Good news is the open source world has loads of development on this notion. Open source ecology has good segway into hardware world , however they have some massive bottle necks with organization and collaboration. They need help growing and so does the world.
What is needed is a weirdacalypse, aka a quiet revolution. One where decentralized , "new power" organizations will not just dismantled the masters house, but actually accommodate and help the old masters evolve with newer appropriate technologies. We need to compete in the global market by first co-operating to develop new paradigms. If you're reading you're already doing it. The culture is here and there. But much help is needed socializing and building new institutions. It's all happening
"when the divine has been exiled from the table of serious art and intellectual discussion you have to find it in what elite culture thinks of as trash" - Philip K. Dick
The trash stratum is the place for good design. It houses the divine. The feedback is like jupiter in scorpio - abundent raw and truth at any cost - shit don't lie to me! "ya babay ya" - Austin Powers, "Let's a go" - Super Mario
You are right on!
Yes, we need new organizational structures to take the "junk" and turn it into a source of wealth. I've considered Vehicle Repair CoOperatives, Makerspaces, Tool Libraries... Combining and networking them into a hub of fixing/making/building. These are the sort of things we'll be experimenting with in the Ozarks BioRegional EcoCenter.
It sounds like your experience and thoughts go even deeper on the models/processes that will make these new organizations successful. Thanks for hopping in and coming along for the ride!