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People are like, „centralization is the pro- don’t have the system in place yet, but we can
blem.” Centralization was the last evolution, it measure what our employees talk about.
created enormous wealth, enormous techno- They’re not like us here now, they’re slacking,
logy and enormous progress for all of us: they’re emailing, they’re tweeting, they’re tele-
For our health and for our living conditions. gramming, and they’re doing all these things
The poor aren’t going hungry. It’s amazing, that we can measure and use natural lan-
right? guage processing to know what they talking
In wealthy countries, even the really poor pe- about.
ople are not really going hungry as there’s so We were talking about social contracts the
much food except, you know, sometimes you other day... If we take away their lunch mo-
see that supermarkets lock their rubbish bins. ney, or reduce the amount of money for their
We’ve created enormous progress through lunch, are they going to talk about it?
centralization, but it’s bankrupt now and it’s Somebody said, in one company they had
only good for certain things. craft beer in the fridge and one day they deci-
Maybe it’s not bankrupt, but it’s good only for ded to just get regular beer.
certain things. It’s good for making a lot of mo- Oh my goodness, people talked about that
ney. a lot. So, we can tell what are people talking
That, by the way, is the first thing I tell people. about, and that can be a measure of satisfac-
If you want to make a lot of money, you want tion, it can be a measure of dissatisfaction.
a centralized organization. It can also be a measure of the good relation-
That’s the best way I know. ships between people. How often are they
You can have as much money as the Catholic saying „that was great”, or congratulating each
Church because, you know, it’s centralized. other for doing a code submit? You could me-
Centralize if you want to make a lot of money,
if that’s your goal. Really, don’t be decentrali-
zed. If your goal is to create a different kind of
a public good, you want decentralization.
asure that. Per code submits, how many good
jobs or thumbs up did you get? That’s how en-
couraging my organization is to other people.
Now, you can measure these unmeasurable
things in a way that not just creates the out-
come of code or income that’s improving, or a
But then, how do I manage these people? It token value that’s rising. You could create a
really is through example, through a new set measure for people being honest with each
of leadership skills, shared values, and me- other.
asurement (which people hate). The measure might be something like, how
Let’s say, we’re going to create a more secure many times people in your organization say,
protocol? How do we measure security, how „Oh, I didn’t know that.” If there are people
do we measure how many breaches there in your organization saying that, there’s no
are? transparency. So you can actually measure
There are some things that people say that the unmeasurable, you just have to think a lit-
are immeasurable, you measure them. tle bit harder.
Yesterday, we had speakers talking about In society, we’ve been measuring the wrong
how to measure satisfaction and dissatisfaction. things for a very long time. For example, how
We can measure all these things. Today, we much money you have.