Every fifty years or so a new technological wave combines with ecosystems of innovation<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Revolutions-Financial-Capital-Dynamics/dp/1843763311/ref=sxts_b2b_sx_reorder?crid=39OTLYJ98H0J4&amp;cv_ct_cx=carlota+perez&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=carlota+perez&amp;pd_rd_i=1843763311&amp;pd_rd_r=e1bde3b2-c033-4fd1-8cc2-cfefb1e93456&amp;pd_rd_w=D45yz&amp;pd_rd_wg=xRB8u&amp;pf_rd_p=55e3f870-f610-46d5-a6bd-2adc9a5c4c7c&amp;pf_rd_r=HX9PMKY7XBGWVH078KM4&amp;qid=1596059318&amp;sprefix=carlota+per%2Caps%2C208&amp;sr=1-1-f5ebfd8e-82c1-4b4e-97d5-2aa47aa18b69"> </a>and financing to transform the world economy. <ul><li>Redefined the means of production</li><li>Explosion of new businesses</li><li>Mass extinction of previously-thriving businesses</li><li>Production becomes cheap</li><li>Entrepreneurs and innovators leverage the new techonological systems to disrupt and displace incumbants</li></ul>Two distinct periods within each cycle.<ol><li>Installation Period - explosion of startups</li><li>Deployment Period - technological diffusion</li></ol>Between these two periods is the Turning Point. This is when businesses either master the new means of production or decline and become relics of the last age.

Technology Revolutions

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Economics

technologyandthefuture

Technology & The Future

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Business

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Human Resources

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Artificial Intelligence

The Turning Point - IT Revolution

<ul><li>Strive to be in unilateral control;</li><li>Minimize losing and maximize winning;</li><li>Minimize the expression or negative feelings;</li><li>Be rational.</li></ul>The consequences of these Model 1 strategies are likely to be defensiveness, misunderstandings, and self-fulfilling and self-sealing processes. Like single-loop learning, Model 1 behaviors are useful in some situations--but are not useful in more complex situations where we must seek the best, most valid information. Errors cannot be readily detected in situations where everyone is colluding in saving face.Why, despite the adverse consequences do we all seem to act in accordance with Model 1? First, because Model 1 is based upon values that were instilled in us in childhood and reinforced through most of our educational and work life experiences . This makes it very difficult to change because changing requires that we explore strongly embedded values and assumptions within our own psyche . Few of us have the skills or courage to be able to do this alone.

Model 1 Theory-in-use

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Corporate Culture

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Parenting

Defensive Routines & Organiztional Learning

Yagni is an acronym that stands for "You Aren't Gonna Need It"It's a mantra from <a href="about:blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ExtremeProgramming</a>A future presumed software capability should not necessarily be built now.

You Aren‘t Gonna Need It

There's an obvious cost of the presumptive feature - the cost of build : all the effort spent on analyzing, programming, and testing this now useless feature.

Cost to build

By building this, we didn't build some other feature. We could have been generating revenue two months earlier. This is cost of delay.

Cost of delay

The code for the presumptive feature adds some complexity.It's harder to modify and debug, increasing the cost of other features. This compounds over every future feature.

Cost of carry

Accumulated technical debtOngoing costs to maintain, fix, or work around

Cost of repair

Avoid any abstraction that makes it harder to understand the code's current requirements.Apply yagni to extensibility hooks.

Abstractions

A lot of small yagni decisions add up to significant reductions in complexity to a code base, while speeding up delivery of features that are needed more urgently.

Think little

Yagni is only a viable strategy if the code is easy to change.Refactoring isn't a violation of yagni because refactoring makes the code more malleable, scalable, flexible. Yagni has the curious property that it is both enabled by and enables evolutionary design.

Refactor, yes

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Computer Science

Yagni

MrBeast Burger represents an interesting hybrid:<ul><li>online digital platform</li><li>delivers an actual in-person experience</li></ul>Our in-person experience is impacted by what we’ve been learning online.We don’t live in a purely online world.Our offline world is increasingly injected with digitally connected technology. The need to connect in person is not going away.

Digital + In-person

<ul><li>Audience building is core. </li><li>"Audience" is the larger halo of people outside of the community - subscribers, followers, and casual watchers.</li><li>Engage.</li><li>Keep connected. </li><li>Make space for people to belong to the community first without requiring them to behave in a certain way. </li></ul>

Leveraging audience

MrBeast Burger is more than just an interesting YouTube story. It provides some lessons for your church as you look to the future:

The Turning Point - IT Revolution

Defensive Routines & Organiztional Learning

Yagni

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