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 can’t help but think it’s because society doesn’t actively demand…
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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 Present and being able to listen. While most of my…
Read more →Simple Behavioral Mechanics
I have a SIMPLE bad mood Mechanic. We have personalities that make us have a Bad mood as related to our dislikes. If I like Games and dont get to…
Read more →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 majority – when it comes to personal projects her approach…
Read more →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 calling out NVIDIA for being unscrupulous 2) linus tech tips…
Read more →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 into components. It costs attention to do the following: ..to…
Read more →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 ERPNext to help people Work From Home and to be…
Read more →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 a GM, World Builder, and Storyteller – getting some powerfully…
Read more →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 Physics in place that prevents an organization from doing something…
Read more →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 I settled with the use fo Expected Monetary Value calculations:…
Read more →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 plane, an extra home, an extra car, an extra set…
Read more →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 computer think it has what it needs to run. A…
Read more →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 would be great if we come to that point where…
Read more →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 — about 5,000 people). to their Acquirers (Facebook and IBM).…
Read more →Problem of Prerequisites
I know I’m not that systematic. There is uncertainty and poorly thought out imperssion in my mind in trying something new. We have a finite amount of time to check…
Read more →My open source challenge
Open source sometimes feels like atheism – its mere existence is anathema – a violation of norms. Remembering how MS called it a Virus and has to be destroyed. Remembering…
Read more →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 that was a mistake because it made me ignore other…
Read more →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 go through that one because I have experienced all the…
Read more →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 what the client wants. This creates a lot of problems…
Read more →System Thinking and Games
The realization that GAMES and system thinking is a decision made in multiple iterations with changing factors that influence the decision. When I realize that AGILE makes sense as a…
Read more →Stress is where Heroism can be better viewed. Stress Mechanics
Because of the Stress Mechanic (its like HP but the Stress doesn’t go away so quickly without coping mechanisms like Vices and Habits; unified Conditions see 200425 GITB Quick Combat –…
Read more →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 of the users were African and South Asian, my irrational…
Read more →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 would probably broker a settlement that no “blame” would be…
Read more →I’ve become Fossilized
I use a lot of my work skills in my games. I do Requirements Gathering and apply Interpersonal and Team Skills in meetings and stakeholder and requirement analysis, and apply…
Read more →Authority is not the Solution
Problems at work where Authority is NOT the solution. Technical Design – who make the Requirements, BOM, SOW, Drawings, and Site Survey – we have historically made rules and authority…
Read more →Unlearning Argument of Authority
The argument of Authority (and its all other forms like see the Sub fallacies and related arguments, normally accompanied by Ad Hominem – poisoning the well ) – is one…
Read more →ERP notes
Key Problems with ERP this is my notes in the company document about ERP studies. No ones probably going to read it, and its more out of compulsion to write…
Read more →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 complex systems and consolidating sophisticated knowledge. They may not be…
Read more →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 decades before RISC or ARM will displace them, anyway with…
Read more →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 can learn any system and take the Sysadmin Training. I…
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