Crashing before rebooting
Discussing the idea of rebooting things/minds/societies with friends today a simple insight i astonishingly never had thought of. (not wanting to stretch the reboot metaphor too much).
Even though a preventive reboot of the system now and then could avoid a hard crash, most things first get rebooted when they’ve crashed hard and reached a standstill.
Could explain an absurdity or two in societies and organizations. And could point one’s energy towards rebooting the things that have crashed instead of doing preventive reboots of things that are still functioning somewhat however an awkward, slow and meaningless state they might be in.
But then, the world is a continuous flows of small reboots of direction and one shouldn’t stretch metaphors too much…
[...] Crashing before rebooting (bootstrapping.net) “Even though a preventive reboot of the system now and then could avoid a hard crash, most things first get rebooted when they’ve crashed hard and reached a standstill.” (tags: rebooting) [...]
Human society, most noticeably the business world right now, is a great example of this. I’ve come to the conclusion that in business at least it has to do with the need to focus on established markets even if they are deminishing over future opportunities that are not yet developed. This may also be where the bootstrapper finds his/her advantage being able to survive in growing markets where low overhead and lack of competition compensate for lower initial earnings.
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