</head><body><nav><div class="control-group"><div class="control-item"><div class="control-item__button-row"><a class="control-item__button control-item__button--size-main" href="/?commit=02ff2500cb4895b457b99c781b3b98d43ca747d3d95f939ecf011176ed9a1e92"><span class="">freeze</span></a></div><div class="control-item__title-overlay control-item__title-overlay--interactive"><span class="control-item__data-copy--end">latest universe</span></div></div></div></nav><main><h3>Minimal object containing this commit</h3><div><a class="visit" href="1f7619f30a8ace34c8c25358c5eeab4e316461413bd7d2f9b94066058c4c42c1?commit=02ff2500cb4895b457b99c781b3b98d43ca747d3d95f939ecf011176ed9a1e92">1f7619f30a8ace34c8c25358c5eeab4e316461413bd7d2f9b94066058c4c42c1</a></div><h3>Commit Diff</h3><pre>commit 02ff2500cb4895b457b99c781b3b98d43ca747d3d95f939ecf011176ed9a1e92 Author: yihanwu1024 <yihanwu1024> Date: Fri Jun 21 00:00:00 2024 +0000 create post appreciating a paper that pointed out that organizational structure determines many unexpected things diff --git a/1f7619f30a8ace34c8c25358c5eeab4e316461413bd7d2f9b94066058c4c42c1 b/1f7619f30a8ace34c8c25358c5eeab4e316461413bd7d2f9b94066058c4c42c1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57cc89f --- /dev/null +++ b/1f7619f30a8ace34c8c25358c5eeab4e316461413bd7d2f9b94066058c4c42c1 @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> +<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="1f7619f30a8ace34c8c25358c5eeab4e316461413bd7d2f9b94066058c4c42c1"> +<title>That Conway Paper</title> +<para>In the past month I realized the great significance of this paper, which had been sleeping in my reading list for 5 months. +(The title looked distasteful to me: “Committees”, “How to invent”.) +I invite everyone to read just the enlightening examples in it. +Consider poststructuralism, and why making people conform to software often doesn’t work.</para> +<blockquote> +<para><emphasis>Examples.</emphasis> A contract research organization had eight people who were to produce a COBOL and an ALGOL compiler. +After some initial estimates of difficulty and time, five people were assigned to the COBOL job and three to the ALGOL job. +The resulting COBOL compiler ran in five phases, the ALGOL compiler ran in three.</para> +<para>Two military services were directed by their Commander-in-Chief to develop a common weapon system to meet their respective needs. +After great effort they produced a copy of their organization chart.</para> +<para> +<link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="https://melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html">Conway, <emphasis>How Do Committees Invent?</emphasis></link> +</para> +</blockquote> +</section> </pre></main></body></html>