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Why is it so hard for some people to grasp that Anonymous are just what they claim to be - everyone and yet no one person? There is no roster, no voting, but th
by wipt 16y ago
Why is it so hard for some people to grasp that Anonymous are just what they claim to be - everyone and yet no one person? There is no roster, no voting, but they are still organized.
Maybe one could call it a mob mentality?
- bdclimber14 16y agoIt's hard because corporate leaders have an incredibly difficult time organizing their own companies to achieve comparable feats to what Anonymous can do overnight.
- Helianthus16 16y agoif they feel like it.
- fleitz 16y agoYou can actually use military techniques to analyze why this is. Anonymous operates inside the enemy ODA (Observe Decide Act) loop. The ODA loop for a typical corporation is at least 5 people. Eg. from when someone observes something (anon is ddosing us) to when that information reaches someone who can act on it (the CEO) anonymous has already completed it's complete loop which is (post on IRC, have people read it and suggest action) the ODA loop for anonymous is on the order of 5 minutes, the ODA loop for a corporate CEO is probably more like 5 hours to 5 days. Therefore anonymous will always be about 25 steps ahead of a corporate target. The primary advantage that comes from this is that anonymous appears to act 'randomly' which causes further stress on the enemy ODA loop and forces them to continually react which leaves the proactive party in control of the competitive landscape (battlefield) If you study military genius you'll find that the most effective commanders were the ones that pushed command furthest down to the org chart. We know that decentralized control is much more efficient than centralized control. Communism didn't lose because its a failed ideology or because its godless, it failed because it's command and control systems allocate resources poorly. They allocate resources poorly because of information asymmetry and the length of the ODA loop. The important thing to take from this for software development is that your time from when you decide to implement a feature to when you deploy to production or get a product to market (AppStore,BestBuy,etc) is your ODA loop. Also, for software watch what happens to your favorite webserver under intense load when you replace it's queue (FIFO) with a stack (LIFO). The LIFO drastically shortens the median response time.
- gaius 16y agoI think you mean OODA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
- fleitz 16y agoYes, grr... my bad :)
- cracki 16y agoobvious symmetry to the Read-Eval-Print Loop.
- dpritchett 16y agoThe unifying concept is the half-life (exponential decay) of plans and information. The older your intel, the less valuable the plans you have built off of that information. Top-down and waterfall approaches institutionalize this in order to provide an illusion of control to the executives and shareholders. Agile development and maneuver warfare each seek to tighten their feedback loops.
- fleitz 16y agoSo you're basically saying that information follows inverse square law according to time? Very interesting idea.
- nickknw 16y agoWow, great post, thank you! This also gave me a new perspective on pg's "Beating the Averages".[1] [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html