“I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Hugo Cabret
I was thinking of this quote and thought of software. Early in the development of computers, memory and processing cycles were precious. In today’s computer that is no longer the case and code can remain in programs long after it is no longer used. Perhaps this is a metaphor for organizations that have ‘parts’ remaining from decades past; there have been no reasons to remove them. Committees and meetings remain long after their purpose has been lost. But, like today’s computers, the price of this vestigial element is seldom recognized. In large organizations this can be unnoticed; however, in small organizations(like the early computers) this extra part can be debilitating
Mind Manager is a graphical view of a thought. This is about a small town.