Joi Ito’s nine principles for operating in a chaotic world:
- Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure.
- You pull instead of push. That means you pull the resources from the network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them.
- You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety.
- You want to focus on the system instead of objects.
- You want to have good compasses not maps.
- You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it.
- It disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience.
- It’s the crowd instead of experts.
- It’s a focus on learning instead of education.
via Wired
“But what if the news media is judged on these metrics: How well does it provide citizens the information they need to govern themselves? How effectively does it fulfill its role as a watchdog? Judged accordingly, the verdict is a lot murkier.”
via The Atlantic
“But the next thing he said was, ‘If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, get on, don’t ask what seat.’ I tell people in their careers, ‘look for growth.’ Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.”
via ABC News
This encapsulates what I love about journalism — it’s as much about writing as figuring out the facts and making sense of it:
“That’s in large part because I knew nothing about the subject, literally nothing about the subject. If I have one virtue, it’s that I’m not intimidated to dive into things that I know nothing about. I’m never afraid to ask really stupid questions at the beginning. When I’m interviewing people and they use acronyms, I always stop them and say, “What does that mean?” even though it’s an acronym that’s branded onto their forehead because they use it every day. I used to teach my reporters that. I remember when Connie Bruck started on her great Mike Milken piece that then became a book, she knew nothing about what a junk bond was. She literally couldn’t have told you in the simplest terms what a junk bond was, and I said, “Well, who cares? You’re smart. You’ll figure it out. Just ask people what a junk bond is.””
via ProPublica
“Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That’s not management, that’s dealmaking. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession.”
via Wired
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