JoeyAristophanes opened this issue on Dec 14, 2003 ยท 62 posts
ockham posted Sun, 14 December 2003 at 5:23 PM
Sooner or later every area of human interest turns professional, and loses its amateur lustre. Some new version or sub-discipline then pops up, and all the new development happens in that realm, until it becomes professionalized and fossilized, at which point some new.......... "Parkinson's Laws", written in the late '40s, described this process in great detail. His observation in this realm: when an organization gets a nice building, with a wing for every department and a statue in the courtyard, the organization is effectively dead. If things have settled down to the point where you can lay out departments, there's no fizz left in the bottle.