community through capitalism
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Community Through Capitalism
Developing a process of personal cybernetic management.
Publicly Traded Person
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Feb 10, 2008 Sep 25, 2012
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PersonalCorporatehood
CompulsivelyCollaborative
BusinessAesthetics
Systems andRules
Stafford Beer
Beer was the first to apply cybernetics to management. Science of effective organization.
(1926 - 2002)
Cybernetics is the science of control.
Same principles of control exist in all kinds of complicated systems:
• animals• computers• economies
Why does he look like a wizard?
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Stimulus
attract
repelTHE SYSTEM
A RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLIFIED FIGURE OF THE CONTROL FUNCTION OF A SYSTEM
SENSOR
CONTROLLER
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Ideas
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YOUWITH
TALK
YOU
PEOPLE
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A RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLIFIED FIGURE OF THE CONTROL FUNCTION OF A
PERSONAL DECISION
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Ideas
yea
nayKMIKEYM
MIKE MERRILL
SHAREHOLDERS
A RIDICULOUSLY SIMPLIFIED FIGURE OF THE CONTROL FUNCTION OF A
CORPORATE PERSON WITH A CYBERNETIC SOCIAL MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
Shareholder Control of Romantic Relationships?
YES87%
NO13%
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General Control
Tighter Feedback Loops
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PERSONAL CYBERNETIC MANAGEMENT
YOU
YOUR COMMUNITY
FOR EVERYONE
400 Shares
263 Shares
50 Shares
33 Shares
109 Shares
306 Shares
38%
62%
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77%
23%
Partner
Friend
Co -Worker
TwitterFriend
Mom
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YOU
Internal Tools Become Projects
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