Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.