Category: reflections
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Growth as a Person
As I reflect on why truly good people—those who are a positive influence on society—seem to be so rare, I…
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Emotional Labor in Games – High Will and Resolve Characters.
It was my wife and women in my life who had to explain to me the importance of just being…
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Simple Behavioral Mechanics
I have a SIMPLE bad mood Mechanic. We have personalities that make us have a Bad mood as related to…
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Slack and Context Management + Single System Approach
TRPGs and Work. The wife and I were talking about our Approaches to personal projects. She’s like everyone and the…
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Wargame a world where we can work with Partial Truths
This is how it works – checking each other even if we both have vested interests. 1) linus tech tips…
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Economies of Effort and Frustration and Sadness
So much is a working memory problem: its really the ability to drill down deep and break down the problem…
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I drink my own Cool Aid. I cannot just have “Save Money” as a Goal.
Obviously given how Naive I am, my internal rhetoric is not “Save Money”. My internal rhetoric is: “I am setting…
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Death is Painful in many ways I didnt and can’t imagine
the more I understand about the body, the more uncomfortable I am in killing scenes. One cannot help it as…
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Changing Attitudes towards responsibility – I’m not an “Idea man”
Before I assumed so much and thought many things were possible. Now that I’ve tried them and realized the Social…
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Emotions, Colors, Set Theory, and Bayesian Probability – the limitations of my mental model
Bayesian probability for me was a difficult concept to follow. I had to wrestle with it for a while and eventually…
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A luxury to manage your emotions
why is my family, time to think, talk with friends, and rest considered a luxury? Its not a boat, a…
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Understanding Computers – they are and probably will be blackboxes
What is Virtualization? It’s pretty much running a computer within a computer by simulating the circumstances that would make a…
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Sad Acceptance that the Philippines is so flawed as to be unworkable still leads to hope
An email where I have to say something else from what I really think: “Re your plans with ERPNext, it…
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More Market Consolidation in the News
On the News of NVIDIA will acquire ARM and the “Deterioration” of Occulus and Red Hat (Layoff the total being — reportedly…
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Problem of Prerequisites
I know I’m not that systematic. There is uncertainty and poorly thought out imperssion in my mind in trying something…
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My open source challenge
Open source sometimes feels like atheism – its mere existence is anathema – a violation of norms. Remembering how MS…
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Collect Requirements – Decomposition – Repeat/Retry
when I was listening to lectures on emotions the actionable take away was: 1) I was “hyper rational” before but…
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Islands of familiarity
When I get older, it’s not that I’m more thorough. It’s just that I learned a checklist and can only…
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Roll Persuasion or Business Analysis.
There is the Sales Persons Roll to Persuade and Sell the product. Can he/she signal well enough that this is…
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System Thinking and Games
The realization that GAMES and system thinking is a decision made in multiple iterations with changing factors that influence the…
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I’m a third worlder and it seems that in Linkedin people forget it
After realizing frappe is low code, python, and js, web base ERP. I realized that when I saw the majority…
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Forgiving in order to Fix Problems
If there was a time that someone will fix our government and make it more transparent – he or she…
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I’ve become Fossilized
I use a lot of my work skills in my games. I do Requirements Gathering and apply Interpersonal and Team…
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Authority is not the Solution
Problems at work where Authority is NOT the solution. Technical Design – who make the Requirements, BOM, SOW, Drawings, and…
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Unlearning Argument of Authority
The argument of Authority (and its all other forms like see the Sub fallacies and related arguments, normally accompanied by…
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ERP notes
Key Problems with ERP this is my notes in the company document about ERP studies. No ones probably going to…
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Center of Excellence – as a Hobby/Advocacy
A dream of having more Liberal or Media Arts grads in IT and QA. People who have skills in communicating…
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Reviewing Goals – What is the Goal?
Intel’s right – focus on 1 core product and make as much money as possible from it. It will be…
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I dont need to Prove i can do it, I just need to be able to do it
I don’t know when the Projects will end. I don’t know when I’ll have the free time to “prove” I…