Storytelling all the time,
I realize every day, and I get flashbacks about key concepts I have to explain at length. Like how Contribution Margins Work, How everyone affects Cashflow, and how our Constraints…
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Pondering ERP History – Baggage and Rules Change
When I see an ERP that has its Database was built-in and not separated when they use Client Systems (install software to connect to the server) instead of Web Base…
Read more →A council of one.
when I find a Reporting Blindspot and I know we only had the Internet, Data, and Technology of such Costs NOW – I cant help but imagine how big must…
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2020-01-18
reflections
Hints of Elder Gods – Moloch and Slavery
When I started separating NPCs to Adventuring and Non-Adventuring, to explain why certain NPCs are “Stagnant” as compared to PCs, I inevitably ran into SOCIAL MOBILITY. The prickly question that…
Read more →Physical Conditioning, Knowledge Skills, and Development Models.
Strength and Endurance training is quite different from skills like Project or Business Operations Management or Chinese. That should go without saying, but we gravitate to what mental model is…
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2019-12-18
reflections
Hanging out and Catching up with Gaming Buddies
I was on study leave but I did the quick analysis of the likeliness I’ll be able to see old friends again and It just doesnt compare. Also the wife…
Read more →Say stupid things More Often. Roles and Responsibilities.
Say stupid things More Often. There are biases when I rant. But they’re exposed and plain and communicated. When it just inside my head, I can’t sort it or find…
Read more →Cognitive Dissonance in a Positive Use: to believe I am wrong and still think I am worth redeeming
the most difficult cognitive dissonance is living with the knowledge of being part and enabling a human destructive system. if we want to avoid All-or-nothing thinking we work to help…
Read more →I’m just a 3-week sprint guy
Try as I might, I cannot accomplish much in less than three weeks. I think, enough happens after three weeks of work on something that I feel validated in my…
Read more →Bad Altruistic Behavior
One of the habits or behaviors my wife rescued me from is when let myself get carried away, helping people with no sense of context or forethought. This behavior resulted…
Read more →System Transmission
I’m sure someone has already made these principles, but I can’t just google a concept without having the Concept’s name. Definitions Stuff can be Material, Information, Communication, Inputs, and outputs.…
Read more →Review of key Concepts
When I am lost, some thoughts that center me. Break it down to the smallest doable action. A draft’s purpose is to get the idea out. Diligence begins with a…
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2019-08-09
reflections
A dreamer is built for hopelessness
My wife has to do a lot of work in the office, which leads her to go home after 8. Which means I need to handle my son and his…
Read more →Preparations for the Future
My parents are great loving people. Unfortunately, looking too closely – as part of the job results in complicated facts and information I need to accommodate in my world view. …
Read more →Why people would deviate from Design, without Coordinating with Designer.
the reason I’m able to follow a lot of the technical aspects of my work is Cy’s explanation of Construction. He’s talking about tolerances in one point. An example is…
Read more →Proficient Enough, Unwilling to Deceive vs Not Lying
I would read the Job Descriptions on Linkedin and would wonder if I’m qualified. I realize, funnily I am. I’ve met these kinds of supposed titans and in terms of…
Read more →sounding like my parents.
Last Friday someone gave me a 45-minute SPIEL of his company after I bought him chamomile tea. I filled up 10 pages of my notebook listening and wrote down all…
Read more →Organizational Mental Models : Dunbar Number
Interestingly is a Useful Mental Model to explain the ability to maintain social relationships. It also syncs with the Memory Models I use (conditioning and Spaced Repetition and memory degradation).…
Read more →How I turn into the Enemy, Let People Grow and Go
I had to open write as part of a PRO (Cons and Pro) the Status Bias of the company. I was discussing Solution Engineering/Architects and basically What PRESALES does. They…
Read more →Filling my Calendar: Making TIME, why I hate sudden changes to my itinerary
Consciously Filling my Calendar is one of the Hardest Actions for me to do. What makes it hard is the Conscious Effort to reviewing my Priorities and the Many Mental…
Read more →Leadership is Influence through Behavior
So my recent model of Leadership is that Its an Influence Skill – through Behavior or Through Signaling (See Signalling Theory) in Behavior. Most influence skills use Communication – information…
Read more →More experience gives use the ability to appreciate nuance
What is actionable is that if we want to appreciate something more we need to experience more of it.
Read more →190426 Finding Time vs Making time
Finding vs Making time Boils down to: 1) Prioritization – Choosing One Item over another, and taking that loss – accepting what we cannot have. 2) Accepting limited abilities and…
Read more →Sleep: Self Care conflicting with Work Capacity
Waste Clearance of the Brain and Rearrangement/Consolidation of Memories. I have a guess that when we sleep the way our brain consolidates our memories is the way you would consolidates…
Read more →Tracking Pain and Discomfort
In the Great Courses, there was a CBT Lecture by Professor James Satterfield and one instance they used a FITBIT as part of therapy. This is old news to me,…
Read more →The dillemma of Healthcare Technology: Society vs Profitability
i sat in for a Pitch of a clinic management system. Its great but… i saw the problem of the Enterep – too many places to fix when it comes…
Read more →Brave New World: Being Given more resources
What I’m doing with my Dad’s Company is something quite new, but something I’m prepared for. Everything in my Mom’s company has trained me for this: Change Management. how to…
Read more →Measurable Action is Like Magic.
Measurable and Planned Action is like magic sometimes. Its something replica-table and sustainable. I look back at all the tasks that failed and the complexity that actually would have gone…
Read more →For Want of a Nail: The Price you pay for a Kingdom
For want of a Nail For Want of a Nail For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want…
Read more →Problems: Retail Therapy, Studies, IT supervision, Panic Orders
Buying things as a Coping Mechanism Retail therapy is not sustainable in the long run. We have some hoarding in the family. I realize my family’s neurosis requires a lot…
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