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Re:The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970) by rmah on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:48AM (#42794737)
That people almost always self-organize into structured organizations gives me hope for humanity. Social structures provide people with means to make life easier. They provide support and a guide on how to accomplish things without having to worry about all the details or the "big picture". And, of course, no organization is perfect. Hoping for perfection is not only folly, it is the enemy of good.
Re:The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970) by KineticLensman on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:56AM (#42794841)
Check out Dunbar's Number [0] (you might already know this). It's a theoretical constraint on the size of successful human groupings where everyone knows of everyone else, and is approximately the size of company-sized (in the military sense) subunits. Of course, these have very explicit structure, even if they contain 'characters'

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Re:The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970) by bokoharambe on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:21PM (#42795172)
Definitely read the criticisms section of this article, because it shows how strange and unsound the whole notion is.
Re:The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970) by nonrandomstring on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @12:50PM (#42795490)
A group with superpowers is one that can spontaneously and optimally reconfigure structure. Including dissolving and spontaneously re-emerging. Group dynamic arrangements grow quickly, combinations for without rank, permutations for ordered ones, both factorial. Then there's distributing N tasks over M people. Lots of unique and special ways build a team, if it's able to change.