{"id":576,"date":"2024-06-18T14:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:35:39","slug":"being-legible-to-oneself-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/being-legible-to-oneself-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBeing legible to oneself\u201d &#8211; Dan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cOne of the key edicts of management cybernetics is that \u201cit is not necessary to look inside the black box in order to understand its behaviour\u201d. But this is only true a) if you\u2019ve made the right decisions about how to divide things up into black boxes and b) if you\u2019re prepared to accept that the behaviour of the black box might often be really quite illogical or pathological. Most of the time, corporate decision-making systems are what Beer called \u201cmuddy boxes\u201d \u2013 the extent to which you can understand the internal workings depends on how much effort you are prepared to put in. And in my view, it\u2019s often important to spend at least some time wiping the glass on the muddy box, to be sure that you have an accurate picture of the true inputs and outputs\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/being-legible-to-oneself\">https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/being-legible-to-oneself<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOne of the key edicts of management cybernetics is that \u201cit is not necessary to look inside the black box in order to understand its behaviour\u201d. But this is only true a) if you\u2019ve made the right decisions about how to divide things up into black boxes and b) if you\u2019re prepared to accept that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}