Love these questions! And would love to see more organisations start with those values.
I’m curious about the application of a “flywheel” strategy to regenerative practice and I’m really pleased you’re thinking about the conditions needed for value cultivation vs value capture.
I strongly believe we must tread with caution when selecting tools from the ‘masters’ toolkit, the risk of reinforcing colonial mindsets is too great.
In my research on cartels (including big tech) I’ve taken some time to understand the conditions that allowed Amazon’s flywheel to be so ‘successful’: leveraging copyright law to lock creators and publishers into their platforms and then using incredible monopsony power to exploit and extract to ‘capture value’. (Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin is an excellent source on this).
I believe that Bezos’ flywheel helped set the precedent and passive acceptance for the mass scale exploitation and theft we’re seeing of creative and cultural work via genAI.
Your questions provoke a new way to think about the fly wheel and I deeply appreciate it.
Thanks for taking the time to read and share - I'm very glad there was something useful in it!
I guess as your work on cartels shows, there are strategies out there that work, that in themselves are values neutral. The opportunity seems to be to learn and then reconfigure under a more prosocial set of values rather than dismissing them as tools of the enemy.
Perhaps the master's tools actually can be used to dismantle his house?
Love these questions! And would love to see more organisations start with those values.
I’m curious about the application of a “flywheel” strategy to regenerative practice and I’m really pleased you’re thinking about the conditions needed for value cultivation vs value capture.
I strongly believe we must tread with caution when selecting tools from the ‘masters’ toolkit, the risk of reinforcing colonial mindsets is too great.
In my research on cartels (including big tech) I’ve taken some time to understand the conditions that allowed Amazon’s flywheel to be so ‘successful’: leveraging copyright law to lock creators and publishers into their platforms and then using incredible monopsony power to exploit and extract to ‘capture value’. (Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin is an excellent source on this).
I believe that Bezos’ flywheel helped set the precedent and passive acceptance for the mass scale exploitation and theft we’re seeing of creative and cultural work via genAI.
Your questions provoke a new way to think about the fly wheel and I deeply appreciate it.
Thanks for taking the time to read and share - I'm very glad there was something useful in it!
I guess as your work on cartels shows, there are strategies out there that work, that in themselves are values neutral. The opportunity seems to be to learn and then reconfigure under a more prosocial set of values rather than dismissing them as tools of the enemy.
Perhaps the master's tools actually can be used to dismantle his house?
I wonder if we need to use them to create a better house as well?