Share First Profess Later

eek has a nice post about the concept of profession and collaboration. It's interesting: while collaboration is often very much about the creation of shared artifacts that help a group do something; a self-conscious profession, a professional society, often exists or is created to be the artifact that lets a group know they are attempting to do something.    (Q3X)

Especially when they aren't doing anything. The existence of the society defends against the existential dread of who are we and what do we do.    (Q3Y)

Professions and disciplines make me nervous, in a similar way to Eugene. What one does when collaborating is always more important than collaboration itself.    (Q3Z)

In the ideal situation, collaboration disappears into the background. If you find yourself enmeshed in the details of how your group should interact, you've missed a step. Take a pause, and work on your Shared Language.    (Q40)

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