Human-Oriented Architecture, what is it?

So many people talk about 'Information Technology'. Of course it is much easier to talk about systems, developments, Internet, Web 2.0 etc. since these are all entitities we can see. Observe. Touch. Smell. Have an opinion about. We also talk about 'information overload' as if it is something that is happening to us. Something is wrong here. And I think it is because we aren't working inside out. The 'overload' part is not about the information quantity, but is about the undercapacity of our own processing ability. I have tons of emails, documents, videos that help me do my business, but I have very limited time and 'attention' to process it. So it is very essential that we manage this limited 'attention' by design.

I plead for a Human-Oriented architecture that respects my 'attention'-budget. That means this HOA is helping me to learn while I do, to collaborate more joyful and less time-consuming with other talented people, to innovate smarter, to enable quicker discovery and eventually to lead by inspiration. A HOA supports my talents and not my systems. And my talents give me unlimited energy to do what I need to do in this life.

I'm currently working on a Human-Oriented Architecture so that the 'High-Performance Workplace' is not only supporting business economics (what else is High-Performance for?) but at least as important, supports my talents (The workplace is supposed to help me isn't it?) .... 'work-life balance' becomes 'work-life integration' so we'd better be of having a human in the center of our architectures than our technology .... and wow, there is so much technology that helps us in making this HOA work!

Bloggers can kill creativity because the loss of independence

Do you know what 'circular mill' is? I didn't until this weekend. Take a look at this youtube video animation. It seems that if bloggers have an opinion and people react on it, re-twitter or re-use each others meaning it can create this circular mill syndrome easily within a short period of time. If ants are in this circular mill mode they walk in circles. They follow each other until they're exhausted and die. The same can happen to subjects in blogs or on other media. If diversity and objectivity isn't taken care of in a proper way creativity will die. I learned about this phenomena this at TED.com, my favorite site.