Comments on: Life in Perpetual Beta http://www.jarche.com/2006/01/old680/ Life in Perpetual Beta Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:14:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harold Jarche » Pilots or Beta? http://www.jarche.com/2006/01/old680/comment-page-1/#comment-196088 Harold Jarche » Pilots or Beta? Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:14:41 +0000 #comment-196088 [...] This is quite different from perpetual Alpha, or never getting to something concrete, as Jay Cross commented here several years ago: What’s beta and what’s not is a state of mind. Many people try to go [...] [...] This is quite different from perpetual Alpha, or never getting to something concrete, as Jay Cross commented here several years ago: What’s beta and what’s not is a state of mind. Many people try to go [...]

]]> By: Harold Jarche » On the Edge http://www.jarche.com/2006/01/old680/comment-page-1/#comment-186177 Harold Jarche » On the Edge Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:11:29 +0000 #comment-186177 [...] of us were multi-tasking so much that we were not as focused as we should have been. So much for life in perpetual Beta. But that’s the whole point - we went out on the edge, practising what we advocate, and [...] [...] of us were multi-tasking so much that we were not as focused as we should have been. So much for life in perpetual Beta. But that’s the whole point – we went out on the edge, practising what we advocate, and [...]

]]> By: Harold Jarche » Disorientation in Learning http://www.jarche.com/2006/01/old680/comment-page-1/#comment-130744 Harold Jarche » Disorientation in Learning Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:00:42 +0000 #comment-130744 [...] I think that we should be helping people adapt to life in perpetual Beta. [...] [...] I think that we should be helping people adapt to life in perpetual Beta. [...]

]]> By: Harold http://www.jarche.com/2006/01/old680/comment-page-1/#comment-381 Harold Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:54:56 +0000 #comment-381 Interesting point on all of the alphas out there. Never thought about the difference but I can see that life in beta is where you have to affirm to principles and actually commit to something, while remaining open to change. On the other hand, the alphas are just pumping out "flavour of the month" stuff. Good metaphor, Jay. Thanks.<br/> Interesting point on all of the alphas out there. Never thought about the difference but I can see that life in beta is where you have to affirm to principles and actually commit to something, while remaining open to change. On the other hand, the alphas are just pumping out "flavour of the month" stuff. Good metaphor, Jay. Thanks.

]]> By: Jay Cross http://www.jarche.com/2006/01/old680/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Jay Cross Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:27:49 +0000 #comment-377 Harold, <br/> <br/> I can readily identify with this. No human life goes beyond beta; life is a perpetual experiment and reshaping. Speaking for myself, I recognize that I still have a lot of bugs. <br/> <br/> What's beta and what's not is a state of mind. Many people try to go into release prematurely: they put defective product on the market. (By productizing people, I mean locking in on attitudes, structure, opinions, etc.: becoming rigid.)<br/> <br/> Life as beta is uplifting. You have the opportunity to streamline things, to resond to feedback, to become a killer app.<br/> <br/> Lots of alphas are claiming beta status now. They debut on life's big stage long before they're prepared to play the part.<br/> <br/> jay<br/> Harold,

I can readily identify with this. No human life goes beyond beta; life is a perpetual experiment and reshaping. Speaking for myself, I recognize that I still have a lot of bugs.

What’s beta and what’s not is a state of mind. Many people try to go into release prematurely: they put defective product on the market. (By productizing people, I mean locking in on attitudes, structure, opinions, etc.: becoming rigid.)

Life as beta is uplifting. You have the opportunity to streamline things, to resond to feedback, to become a killer app.

Lots of alphas are claiming beta status now. They debut on life’s big stage long before they’re prepared to play the part.

jay

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