# Organizations don’t do anything, people in organizations do things The direct consequence of this is that one should never put a verb in front of an inanimate object. This may be too extreme: Is it actually better to say “People have used computer simulations for discovery …” than “Computer simulations have aided in discovery …?” [[Human brains put all entities in the same bucket]] ### Related * [[Life Style Guide]] * Inspired by [[Yuval Levin on A Time to Build - Econtalk]] * [[Could you design incentives so everyone had skin-in-the-game around institutional purpose and mission?]] * [[Nobody is resigning for failing to do their institutional role]] * [[Heuretics come out of people’s brains (TECHNOLOGY IS PEOPLE)]] * [[Institutions shape how individuals interact]] * [[What if you did skin in the game analyses on institutions?]] <!-- #stub --> [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Organizations+don’t+do+anything,+people+in+organizations+do+things) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Organizations+don’t+do+anything,+people+in+organizations+do+things)