Game in the Brain

On the News of NVIDIA will acquire ARM  and the “Deterioration” of Occulus and Red Hat (Layoff  the total being — reportedly — about 5,000 people).  to their Acquirers (Facebook and IBM). I am reminded of the Zero-Sum thinking of the market – that happens at this level.  

The more you try to be productive > the more actions you fill your schedule up with > the more actions are in your schedule – the more variance to finish all these actions > the more dependencies happen before actions can move to its next stage or accomplish deliverables > the more complexity in one’s day > as humans the amount of failure that happens in a day affects us more than the amount of success we achieved in that day. (see loss aversion the Human bias to Loss)  

That is true for most organizations: organizations will typically count the errors and mistakes more than the Accomplishments. What was once 20 objectives in the day and 20 achieved; it is now 50 a day, with 45 achieved and 5 failures being the measure of performance.

It also extends to market Consolidation instead of Innovation. To be Profitable – they need more productivity  (Sharing more resources to reduce its cost; Activity-based Accounting )and thus suffer the dilemma of inefficiency vs goals (as above). To promise shareholders Profits instead of market dominance or innovation (and market security). It is to promise that I will pay you 50usd now, instead of 10usd repeatedly forever. to add more scope and complexity for profits instead of time to market and innovation.

Moloch – the forces of nature that twists any “productivity” or “efficiency” into a CURSE.