Wardley Maps

btw. closing open decision loops is most liberating feeling ever. More at @kda

Yeah, I did that. I also shut down all of the free mapping teaching. This stuff was increadibly draining as I was hoping it will become sustainable for far too long. At least, I have got some clarity and free cycles to think about other things.

I am on the verge of rejecting my next mapping talk. Teaching mapping is fun, but bills need to be paid.

@joa_pen @swardley @u3m Fair point, but you are also a seasoned mapper who had plenty of time to make up his mind. Newcomers see @swardley's statement sooner or later.

@wardleymaps @swardley @u3m I get your point, but in my simple way of thinking this is a tool, an excellent tool for certain problems, works for me in certain problem? I use it, doesn't it fit well? I look for other tool. I do not have a moral imperative that brought me to use a screwdriver 🤣🤣🤣

the official mapping purpose "to get rid off consultants" does not sit with me. Here, I said it.

@joa_pen @swardley @u3m ...means there is no imperative to learn maps in a number of situations, like you being a consultant, or you collaborating with good consultants. which is hard to accept, because consultants are using maping to do some good :).

@joa_pen @swardley @u3m Your statement is fine :). I am saying something slightly different - current imperative wording says that mapping is for you if you feel enslaved by consultants. With Simon's additional explanation, there is no need to rebel if you do not feel enslaved. Which also...

@swardley @u3m I need confirmation if my understanding is correct. are you saying that mapping has no imperative for people who do not feel enslaved by consultants (f.e. see value in consultant's work or are consultants themselves) ?

@u3m @wardleymaps Specifically, it's "rebel against consultants that enslave us" ... if they don't enslave, then there is no need to rebel.

@swardley which is a big hypothesis of course - as there could have been many more such things.

@swardley Nomadic cultures relied less on labour - their property customs were very different. Yet, the're a minority right now. Which means that somehow property-based approach was better suited for (at least short-term) evolutionary success.

The entire economic system is built on a shared value of exclusion. This value enables property and hence trade i.e. it is your property, not my property. I marvel at the magical thinking that a system built on exclusion will magically eliminate exclusion. I would suggest people go watch Elysium (a film full of robots) in order to find out what a more realistic future is likely to be.

@swardley Elysium is a likely outcome, though. Possibly terrible outcome for humanity... but individuals will not see it as such, due to some things being seen as 'impossible'. And Matt Damon will not save us.

@swardley ... are basically the foundation on which a lot of other things have been built. Even CC-BY-SA is a continuation of the 'right to harvest' :D.

@AngelicaOung The situation has been fixed later by a change in the approach - the Parliament started each session from the agreement that majority shall be enough.

@AngelicaOung Liberum veto was rarely used because the practice was to find a working solution. The first use of it is actually one where Russia bribed one of the representatives to claim it and run away, blocking proceedings and making it impossible to find a consensus.

I’ve been thinking about the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth lately. It’s really a delightfully idiosyncratic proto-democracy. The nobles of Poland and Lithuania decided to strip the monarchy of its hereditary nature and treat the king almost like a CEO position. After the old dynasty died out they literally talent-searched across Europe for a suitable foreign prince and then treated him more like an employee, complete with a kind of job contract. He couldn’t pass laws without parliament (the Sejm). The whole system was designed to stop the king from turning into a tyrant, especially at a time when most of Europe was absolute monarchy. And for a long time it actually worked. Part of the reason is that politics in the Commonwealth ran on consensus. The sejm had a culture of working together to reach unanimity. That’s where the infamous Liberum veto comes from. Any one noble could veto legislation. On paper that sounds insane, but it mostly worked because ppl almost never used it. The problem came once politics became more factional, the veto turned into the perfect sabotage tool. Foreign powers could simply bribe a single deputy to bring the Sejm to a grinding halt. Catherine the great got very good at this. She also got one of her lovers in as the last king so definitely some foreign interference heh. Aaaaand then she just partitioned it and poor Poland wasn’t a country for a looooong time after that. What makes the story interesting is that the rules themselves didn’t suddenly change. What changed was the political culture around them. The system was built on the assumption that elites would act with a certain level of restraint and shared responsibility. Once that assumption stopped being true, the safeguards became attack surfaces. I sometimes wonder if something similar is happening in the United States. The founders designed the American system with checks and balances to prevent executive overreach. But it was actually dependent heavily on norms that are not written down and are hard to put back after they erode for whatever reason.

i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from: - getting humiliated - showing up terrified and doing it anyway - admitting you might be the problem

A good component on a map represents an 'affordance'. This is a concept known from design - and it means it invites some sort of action.

@tonyszko @PernotLeplay BLIK seems to support the entire EU zone :) blik.com/en/phone-to-ph…

@PernotLeplay Poland isn’t on this list but we have our replacement and it is widely used. You can pay on-line, in store and do direct transfers with it. It is called BLIK and is tested right now outside of Poland 🖖

🇪🇺🇺🇸 Only 5 EU countries have a full alternative to Visa/Mastercard so far. It's time to act. ft.com/content/fcc215…