Stephen Downes

The answer to the question in the title is of course at the very end of the article: "It is the care with which we anticipate what is to come and prepare accordingly — building the structure and yielding to the flow — that matters most." I think it would have been more useful to start with this and then to explain what it means and how we know we're doing it. Instead we get sort of a stream-of-consciousness story about what led the author to this conclusion.