Collaboration, my ass
In today’s world, the best thing is collaboration. You’ve got to collaborate. From open source to open books to open wikis to open video to open pants, everything’s gotta be open.
Now it’s all nice and well, it allows people to work together and therefor work less. Cause let’s face it, it’s not about working better. A couple of people working on a document doesn’t make it better, it just covers each other’s asses and all they do is ask each other’s feedbacks.
It goes down to this. Do we pee collectively? Does that make our pee better? Does that help anyone anywhere? Do we pee faster? Doesn’t that cause all sorts of issues, such as ‘dude, where is my paragraph?’
Collaboration, my ass. Having someone else working with you on a piece just makes the piece slower. It makes people assume each other’s responsibility, producing something of an average impact. Did Nasa ask collaboration of the Russian when sending people to the moon? No. Why? Because it’s a race. Collaboration does the opposite of competition. Instead of each other going on our own and working our ass off quietly to get it out before the other, or better than the other, we’re meant to work together like sheeps, watch each other’s so called qualities and be polite and all, for what? An average result, half-assed, sharing credits and blaming each other.
Granted, two brains work better than one, but that doesn’t mean the end-result is better.
Another mess-app released: text flow. Yay to collaboration.
I’ve got a solution. Take two people meant to collaborate together and get them to compete. Same piece, same deadline, same technology. At the end, get the better one. The loser will look at the other’s piece and be forced to improve to not get beaten next time, instead of taking half the credits while the other one is pissed off for having done most of the work. That will help the schmilblik.
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5566 Says:
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:07 pmI like you, in a professional and non-gay way.
Nicolas Noben Says:
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 pmHaha
Thibaut Allender Says:
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:26 pmYep, and collaboration means more budget, or a lower income for the workers…
Sean Moore Says:
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 pmIsn’t this blog a collaboration? From your about page:
“We explore Flash and Flex as well as Web2.0 Ajax based application.
We promote the useful, the usable and the pretty rich internet applications.
Join us and be a part of it!”
Nicolas Noben Says:
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 amStill, the posts are written by only one person, right? We don’t co-produce posts. Plus we do this for fun, no awards, no payment, no credit taken.
Sean Moore Says:
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm“Still, the posts are written by only one person, right? ” I don’t know are they? You might consider revising the text on your About page… I just thought it was pretty ironic to read this post, then click your About link to find the text that is on it. Maybe it’s just me though…. I guess all-in-all I would have to disagree with your blog post a bit. I would have to say that some of the most important achievements of mankind were collaborative/collective efforts. E.G.: The Internet, Space Shuttle, etc. Also, I think the whole ‘I’m better than you are’ attitude is counter-productive and IMO is directly linked to this pop-star/celebrity culture we are living in…. Let’s make strides as a civilization and set aside the navel-gazing and totally capitalistic mentality that you’re pushing here….
Nicolas Noben Says:
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:11 pmand I’m glad you pointed it out
Sean Moore Says:
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:00 pmcool. i do understand what you are saying in your post too though. i don’t to come off as an ass. but it sounds like you understand where i am coming from too. i think it can be argued both ways for sure. there is a lot to be said for competition. the usa would not be the country it is without coke/pepsi, burger king/mcdonalds, etc. anyway i guess your post was pretty good because it got me thinking enough to start this comment thread with you. i give you a lot of credit for voicing your opinion. that takes guts. so props on that. keep these posts coming we need someone to stand up and speak their mind…. repeck!!
Nicolas Noben Says:
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 pmThanks. I actually sort off fired some of the ideas (such as the peeing) in a way of hoping to get a bait pulling in the opposite direction. I’m happy you came right in.
I expect to write more in this style in the future, because quite honestly, there are enough blogs around the world saying the same things about technologies. Someone has to rant bluntly.
Ollie Says:
June 18th, 2008 at 8:34 pmhahaha. I can’t believe I missed this post.
Why don’t we work together tommorrow Nic? You click the right mouse button, Ill click the left.
I agree with you whole-heartedly… but why can’t we pee together? Ill hold yours if you hold mine
Maybe your a better aim?
Erik Pettersson Says:
June 11th, 2010 at 6:49 amDo write more like this.