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Originality first before co-creation

Mar 25, 20246 min read

2024-03-25claude.icon The “originality” is required before the “joint creation”. First, it is important to “think carefully alone,” develop “your own vision,” and discover your “unique strengths. Only through such a process of “originality” will we be able to achieve more fruitful “co-creation. You may be right about the negative effects of easily recruiting friends. It tends to lead to lack of direction and ambiguity of responsibility. As the examples of “social cut corners” and “Brooks’s Law” show, increasing the number of people is not always a good thing. In particular, recruiting friends vaguely on social networking sites can be problematic. [The “sense of purpose” may be weak, and the division of roles may be unclear. Co-creation” without “originality” may have a negative impact. Therefore, I think it would be a good idea for you to work on your own first, and then, with a clear sense of purpose, recruit others to work on the issues that emerge from your efforts. From “originality” to “co-creation. I believe that such a process will lead to a more productive teamwork. By taking a more generalized view, I felt that this way of thinking can be applied to various cooperation situations, not limited to contest entries.

2023-07-22 gpt.icon Originality before co-creation: the way forward alone A theme that has been at the center of our conversations since 2017, and that is about “entering contests,” and it got me thinking about this issue when I saw people on Twitter writing, “I want to enter ~ and I’m looking for friends!” and seeing people writing about it got us thinking about this issue. However, in the five years since then, I have come to think that perhaps this issue should not be limited to contest entries, but should be viewed from a more general perspective.

There is an old African proverb that says, “[If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together. However, we need to be careful in applying the lesson contained in this saying. More people do not necessarily increase the probability of success. The act of choosing people to walk with as part of a team can be counterproductive if they are not aligned in the direction they are aiming for. And that is especially true when “recruiting” people vaguely on a social networking site.

When it is difficult to proceed alone, recruiting others to help overcome that difficulty can be misleading. And it is also related to the phenomenon of “social cut corners. This is a phenomenon in which the amount of tasks performed per person decreases with the increase in the number of people in a group working together, indicating that the outcome of a group is not necessarily proportional to the number of its members.

Furthermore, according to “Brooks’s Law,” adding personnel to a software project that is lagging will only delay it further. This refers to the overall effort that is increased by adding personnel, including the effort expended in the reassignment itself, training of new personnel, and additional interactions.

From these considerations, we should consider that “originality” is first necessary before “co-creation. In other words, it is important to find one’s own way forward, understand one’s own strengths and weaknesses, and acquire the ability to do things on one’s own based on this understanding. It is precisely because of this stage of originality that it is possible to move on to co-creation with others.

In conclusion, it is most efficient to “find a path to take alone and then find a group of people to share that path with. More meaningful co-creation will be possible by moving to the stage of co-creation after deepening one’s self-understanding through the stage of self-creation. The first step in this process is to find the way forward alone.

2022-03-03 This article was written in 2017 after seeing a Tweet about contest entries. It was/is mentioned often over the next 5 years, but mostly in a different context than the contest application. Perhaps a more generalized statement is needed.

2022-12-31 - If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together. - Good team application

2017-10-23 I have seen Twitter posts about entering contests, etc. that say, “I want to enter ~ and I’m looking for friends! I’m looking for friends! Why not apply alone?

Is there a misconception that “more people increase the probability of success?” Is there a misconception that “two people can achieve twice as much as one?” These misconceptions overlook the cost of communication and the cost of setting a single direction for the team.

Often there is no compulsion to participate in this type of contest, unlike activities at school or a job at a company.

  • In other words, if a team member is demotivated, he or she will naturally become inactive.
  • The team leader is required to manage the team in a way that is quite difficult to maintain and inspire the members’ motivation without the coercive force of graduation or salary.
  • Think more members mean less responsibility? You are wrong.
    • It is the team leader’s responsibility to keep team members motivated.

Do those who recruit their friends realize that they are trying to get their hands on such a difficult issue?

  • If the direction is not consistent, it will be counterproductive, and the members who work together must be chosen carefully.
  • I don’t understand the point of vaguely “recruiting” friends on social networking sites.
    • Do you mean, “I’m looking for a slave to do for me what I don’t want to do and am not good at?”
    • Is this a convenient “we are vocalist, band members wanted” type of situation?
  • It would be easier if it was explicitly stated that “I am good at X but not so good at Y, or I am looking for someone who is good at Y.”
    • But I’m not a big fan of these types of openings because I think it’s better to have a broad perspective when you’re young than to specialize in a narrow field of expertise.

Good knowledge to know before trying to add more members.

  • Decrease in the amount of tasks performed per person when working together in a group as the number of people increases.

  • Brooks’s Law: Putting people on a software project that is behind will only delay it further.

    • Adding personnel to a software project increases the overall effort required in three ways. The overall effort required when adding personnel to a software project increases in three ways: the effort expended on the reassignment itself and the resulting work stoppage, the training of new personnel, and the additional interactions.

2017-11-18 originality first before joint creation.

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