Month: September 2021

  • How to get culture

    Organizations have culture whether they want it or not.  How they get it is up to them.  In my experience there are three ways culture happens: Leaders set behavioral norms and enforce them directly and by training subordinates to enforce them when the leader isn’t around Leaders take a hands-off approach and accept a sort…

  • Identity is what’s missing

    Neither the Internet nor the Web have an Identity model.  This means they also don’t have a Trust model.  And from this fact flows nearly all the insecurity issues that are inherent to the Internet or the Web (as opposed to those coming from defective software). “What is identity?” is one of those bottomless questions…

  • Classes

    I assert that there are six archetypal work roles in the world: designer – someone who mostly works on novelty and synthesis to come up with a way to solve a problem builder – someone who takes a design in makes it real fixer – someone who repairs things that were once working caretaker –…