subvert » shows

Why Self-Organized Networks Will Destroy Hierarchies

Heather Gold — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:53:23 +0000

The people in authority who make the rules interfere with the people who know how to do the job and are in direct contact with the situation. The people who make the rules know nothing about the work they’re interfering with.

-Kevin Carson, Why Self-Organized Networks Will Destroy Hierarchies

Kevin's post give me food for thought. It's my preference not to abstract the hierarchy / network thing into information but view it as people problems or challenges. Tummeling is a kind of human self-networking that happens even within hierarchies. Many corporations function because there are individuals who take it upon themselves to make connections and bring people together across "silos" (man I hate that word). Sometimes it's an admin assistant or project manager or someone with low "authority status" (something else Carson's post critiques, the mistake hierarchy managers make when they look to what they see as authority rather than actual experience).

What's most important to me about what Carson refers to as "people who know how to do the work" is not their abstract knowledge but what is experiential. Experience happens in the present. It's where all real authority and creativity emerges.

-cross-posted at TummelVision.tv check out our podcast there with some of the most humanizing folks in tech, biz and culture.

Posted via email from subvert with heather gold

[vid] tHGS@SXSW07: Continuous Partial Attention

Heather Gold — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:39:18 +0000

with /Micki Krimmel, Derek Powazek, Tantek

This year's tHGS@SXSW is March 16th: Something From Nothing feat. Derek Sivers (CDBaby), Andy Baio
(Upcoming, waxy) + Janice Fraser (Emmet Labs, Adaptive Path). Please come. Participate from anywhere
and help make it happen and support great crowdsourced convo. http://heathergold.com/show

Maria Bamford: Greatest Living Comic Authority on Depression (Comedy DSM I ) Buy tix now for January 19th consult

Heather Gold — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:54:41 +0000

Above: the greatest living comic authority on depression: Maria Bamford
BUY TIX

Who: host comedian Heather Gold ("Cookie"), guests Maria Bamford (Comedy Central's Comedians of Comedy), SF favourite Will Franken (Good Luck With It), and Cynthia Levin (Comedy Central's "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn)

What: The Heather Gold Show@SFSketchfest: Comedians on Depression at SF Sketchfest

When: Monday January 19th, 2008. 8-9:30pm,

Where: Eureka Theatre 215 Jackson St San Francisco CA 94111 and podcats online at heathergold.com/show

Tickets: $15. Way cheaper than therapy. Available at sfsketchfest.com or 866-468-3399

I've wanted to do this show since I looked in my wife's psychology textbook under depression for information and it had a picture of Drew Carey and just said 'Comedians are depressed.' So now I'm consulting comedians. Only the best. These are the cream of the crop. It will be neurologically impossible to be depressed during this show. We may even cure a few therapists before the night is done. I hear they need help.

Who knows more about depression than comedians? Maria Bamford (Comedians of Comedy, Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, Variety's Top Ten Comics), Will Franken (Good Luck With It, Best SF Comedian), Cynthia Levin (Comedy Central's "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn) and surprise therapy guests join comic and host Heather Gold and you. Is it possible to be a comic without first being depressed? Are there Americans who aren't depressed? These and other fine answers await your participation at Comedians on Depression. Will not cause drowsiness, bloating or leakage. Cheaper than therapy.

Tasting words

Heather Gold — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:08:29 +0000

Only 5 documented cases of this form of synesthesia (the neurological coupling of senses) in the past century according to this piece documents a study on a woman who has it.

We did one of my favourite Heather Gold Shows on perception (listen) which featured many synesthetes. It's really one of my favourite subjects, possibly because I associate physical sensation with much of what I do creatively. Or maybe it's just because it seems the closest human being come to supernatural powers.

toque tip: A Sull.

New York, NY – 11/05/08

Heather Gold — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:30:00 +0000

New York, NY – 10/27/08

Heather Gold — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000

San Francisco, CA – 10/19/08

Heather Gold — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000

San Francisco , CA – 10/18/08

Heather Gold — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000

San Francisco, CA – 10/15/08

Heather Gold — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000

New York, NY – 10/08/08

Heather Gold — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:00:00 +0000