{"id":1030,"date":"2010-04-01T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2010-04-01T21:52:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T01:52:35","slug":"dont-ask-questions-you-dont-want-the-answers-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/dont-ask-questions-you-dont-want-the-answers-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Ask Questions You Don&#8217;t Want the Answers To."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"first-letter\">W<\/span>hen ecosystems change and inflexible institutions collapse, their  members disperse, abandoning old beliefs, trying new things, making  their living in different ways than they used to. It\u2019s easy to see the  ways in which collapse to simplicity wrecks the glories of old. But  there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old  system: when the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people  who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people  who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what  happens  in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Shirky, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/weblog\/2010\/04\/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models\/\">The Collapse of Complex Business Models<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/we-are-full-stop\/\">mentioned before<\/a>, Shirky is a guiding light for Full Stop. We believe we&#8217;re living through monstrous societal disruptions, chief among them the Internet&#8217;s irresistible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/the-march-to-invisibility\/\">march to invisibility<\/a>. It&#8217;s not a coincidence we decided to make our living helping people understand and react to that fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When ecosystems change and inflexible institutions collapse, their members disperse, abandoning old beliefs, trying new things, making their living in different ways than they used to. It\u2019s easy to see the ways in which collapse to simplicity wrecks the glories of old. But there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[35,44,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}