The Limits of “Peak Performance” and the Benefits of “Authentic, Spontaneous Imperfection”

The Industrial Revolution with its metaphor of the machine as guiding principle (“Leitbild”) for human production and organisation brought upon us the idea of “peak performance.” Within this worldview sits the assumption that the universe follows mechanical, repeatable laws (Newton’s “Mechanical Universe”). Therefore, productive processes in essence are also predictable, which in turn creates the context for the concept of “efficiency” to… Continue reading The Limits of “Peak Performance” and the Benefits of “Authentic, Spontaneous Imperfection”