[Noisebridge-discuss] a good thing about our mailing list discussions

[Christie Dudley]

Hear here!

It is often said that the best governances are the least efficient.  No one
can argue that what transpires on the list is any model of efficiency.  But
cool stuff does come about, and (hopefully) we only need to work these
things out once.  Some facets of this I see:

- Sometimes people's solutions seem like good ideas but are ultimately
unworkable.  If we don't talk through them, we wind up with solutions, then
solutions to those solutions and people badgering each other for not playing
along when those solutions don't work.  It's much easier to talk through
things than to have to live through them.

- People who are previously unaware of problems can be made aware.  Some may
even have more useful viewpoints than those in the thick of things.  Think
"10,000 ft. view".

- (Hopefully) people will become less attached to their pet solution, so as
to be able to modify it to better suit the group.

Christie
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Pigs can fly given sufficient thrust.
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
>   seems to me valuable to point out that discussion on
> the mailing list works. the thread goes through changes,
> takes on various casts including depression, anger,
> dispair..., yet with the effect of amalgamating concrete
> suggestions that at some point become a guide to action.
>
>   for example, zedd got the inspiration to stack some
> of the small tables on each other to make improvised
> shelves. this solved the problem of where to put stuff,
> and therefore a group of us then could (and did) clean
> out all the crap in the middle classroom.
>   not only do we have a brand new useable classroom, we
> also have impetus started up again:
> * library shelves seem in progress
> * stuff from the classroom is classified in large and
> there are those who are now sorting the hackable stuff
> and reclassifying some as e-waste.
> * there's a garbage run today.
> * there is an experimental effort to reduce the most
> common clutter problem: left-over partially filled drink
> containers.
>
>   i think we sometimes expect too much efficiency from
> our mailing list. given the world we live in, how did
> we get such ideas?
>
>
>
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