I always enjoy putting old things together in new ways.

This afternoon I was listening to Geoff Moore give his core vs. context pitch to a group of open source business people. He's more for core than ever; outsource everything you can.

I occurs to me that this is advice for the individual as well. Do your thing. Hand off everything else. How does this:



compare to:



to this:



and



Open Source is an example of collaboration.
Microsoft is competition, as is most of old SIlicon Valley.
Control leads to stasis, e.g. standards bodies, hi-tech as religion.
Cultivation...?