“To evaluate these requests, the FSE stretch across traditional organization boundaries, while not get stretched too thin. They need to be informed about what everyone else is doing without micromanaging them, and not get uncomfortable working in roles unfamiliar to them: product manager, designer, communicator, strategist, advertiser, consultant, technologist, user advocate, marketer… et cetera and so on!”

“What matters is that players get hurt, and while you can’t make rules to eliminate all injuries, you can certainly work to eliminate injuries caused by other players when they deliberately behave in certain ways.”

Michael Lewis writes: “It’s not really a book about the space program. It turns out that it’s not even, really, about flying. It’s about the importance of status to men, and what happens when the rules of any status game change…No one noticed the best story. Process had replaced courage. Engineers had replaced warriors. A great romantic way of life, a chivalric code, had been trampled by modernity. Not for the first time!”

“But embedded in Coase is this idea: the average worker, a person with a salaried job, is not receiving a lot of information from the market. They get a job for a certain task, and they have that job maybe for decades. And in that time they are not given the opportunity–or the pain–of learning what their market price is. And for someone, for much of the middle part of the 20th century this was a pretty good deal for an awful lot of people. […] And so, the Hollywood Model, one of the salient facts in my mind was that all of these various workers–the Creative Department Heads, the actors, the writer and director, even the technical folks, the electricians, the carpenters–they live in a world where they receive a market signal all of the time. Their life is broken up into these projects. This one was 2 months. Some bigger movies, like the Hunger Game movies, that might be a year and a half. You know, the big franchises, like the Hobbit movies, you might get a job for 3 or 4 years.