Purposive Drift

Lunch Table Project Teams

There is a good interview with Bill Joy in last month's Wired. I latched on to it because one of his answers related to some of the stuff I was talking about in "Conversations and creativity":

"I've always said that all successful systems were small systems initially. Great, world-changing things - Java, for instance - always start small. The ideal project is one where people don't have meetings, they have lunch. The size of the team should be the size of the lunch table."

I also liked some of the things he had to say about the possibilities for innovation, which relate to some of the things I discussed in "It's hard to predict"

All in all, an interview worth reading and a man to keep an eye on.