Been doing a lot of traveling for work these days which gave me a lot of airplane time to listen to my audiobooks.
Currently in the middle of the book, The Starfish and the Spider, by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
The book relates the hierarchical style of an organizations vs. a flat or community style. Lot’s of storytelling here including how the advanced hierarchical Aztec society was taken down easily by the Spanish by walking into each city and the killing their king. However, when they encountered the Apache Indians who were a distributed community society, it wasn’t so easy.
It then relates this to today with what’s happening thanks to the internet and entities like eMule and Skype.
… and the disruption they’ve caused in the music and telecommunication industries. The music industry successfully sued Napster out of the free P2P market, but only to be replaced by others who were lawyer proof.
Chop a spider’s head off and it dies… cut a starfish in half and you end up with 2 starfish. The benefits of a distributed neural network.
