| What do you do when you care about a standard... |
...but your employer doesn't? Well, the answer that I've come up with is that standards do matter, and that they shouldn't be controlled by companies for corporate gain. So, I'm going to pursue membership of the standards committee as an individual (which means that I wont be going to any of the meetings I guess), and advocate what I honestly think is the right solution, instead of what nessesarily makes things easier for my employer to implement.
I'm kinda keen to find some time to implement some tools around the standard too, especially as I am not aware of any implementations online at the moment...
posted at: 15:21 | path: /work | permanent link to this entry
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Ted
Can you elaborate on what the standard involves, perhaps even its proposed name? That way you can work up a crowd of followers who are also interested in the less corporate minded goals of the standard.
You mention that you would like to implement some tools around the standard, what better way to do so than to share information about the standard and let others work on it with you.
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Michael Still
Ted,
you're right, and I'll address your points in a post...
Cheers,
Mikal
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Dea G.
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Hmmmm, interesting.
Good question, likely occupying many people's thoughts.
I think it depends on what one means by "corporate gain."
Some "corporations" are not "corporations" at all, ... like say, for example, "Wall Street," (name any,) or a central bank (name any,) or "Dentyne" (the gum co. owned by he/she queen lizzie, or any of Proctor/Gamble, weapons-industrial complexes, cartels of essential non-renewable resources, big-pharma, ...religion, deBeers Diamonds, National Geographic. They are white-collar-hoaxes that are totally dependent on the misappropriated use of the govt's claim to initiatory force, threat, or other involuntary coercion (of one or more peace loving individual) in order to assure their parasitic, net-value destroying, uncompetitive survival.
Then there are the real corporations, like the welding supply store down the road, or the restauranteur, or mechanic, or the independent inventor, ... where a peace lover produces competitive value & makes lives permanently better thru your voluntarism for his product, without putting you or your great-grandkids in debt forever against your will or knowledge behind the scenes. These are big differences, right?!! ~ I mean, much too large to entertain your question.
My judgement on these questions is fundamental to my core motivation, and I will not work for the former w-c-hoax [better, "can't", not even able to begin to put my hands on the keyboard, .... literally, can't... ! ], except perhaps to extract from them (as in poker); ... being clandestinely motivated to weaken them.
Other than that, I sense you want a higher satisfaction than recompense by tangible reward, in exchange for values you produced. I ask by what means you reflect on, and count your ability to, deal with life succsessfully.
Whenever I see the tangible, being traded for the intangible, and talk of committees & 'authoritative' collectives, I smell a dark mysticism, with sacrifice on one side of the fence, or the other, which is always life-threatening. So, I thot I'd twig yer' blog to call your attention, & to curiously inquire as to how you resolved the situation, looking back now, years later. I see I may be able to pick that up in later posts.
Thanks.
~Dg.