http://www.jackzen.com/2007/05/27/getting-over-competition/ zen reflections on the future of everything Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:57:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/05/27/getting-over-competition/#comment-6747 Jack Ricchiuto Wed, 30 May 2007 01:40:21 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/05/27/getting-over-competition/#comment-6747 And hold us back, it does, Tim. We need to be having conversations about the possibility of creating jobs rather than competing for jobs, creating brains instead of competing for brains. Competition at basic levels commoditizes everything, which is fine in agrarian and industrial paradigms. In an open source knowledge ecology? It doesn't translate. It's transcending plumbing and electrical metaphors for spiritual metaphors. And hold us back, it does, Tim. We need to be having conversations about the possibility of creating jobs rather than competing for jobs, creating brains instead of competing for brains. Competition at basic levels commoditizes everything, which is fine in agrarian and industrial paradigms. In an open source knowledge ecology? It doesn’t translate. It’s transcending plumbing and electrical metaphors for spiritual metaphors.

]]> http://www.jackzen.com/2007/05/27/getting-over-competition/#comment-6737 TimFerris Tue, 29 May 2007 13:24:48 +0000 http://www.jackzen.com/2007/05/27/getting-over-competition/#comment-6737 I believe that a basic tenet of the knowledge economy, what the Tofflers call the Third Wave, is that we live in a world of infinite abundance. Thinking about competition and zero-sum games is getting to be some really negative activity; I'm thinking it's something that really can hold us all back. I believe that a basic tenet of the knowledge economy, what the Tofflers call the Third Wave, is that we live in a world of infinite abundance. Thinking about competition and zero-sum games is getting to be some really negative activity; I’m thinking it’s something that really can hold us all back.

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