The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
I'm building an anarchistic society from the ground up.
Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.
We've always shared everything - writing credits, all the royalties - and there's no real leader because if there was one, we'd immediately depose them.
SpaceX is a flat organization. Anyone gets to talk to anyone, and the best idea wins - even if it comes from an intern.
The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.
Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual.
