Category: reflections

With More Skill, more Debt.

With the Title I wanted to Emphasize the Negative Aspects that are overlooked by most people when they promote education. I believe skills are more more automatic-reflexes of the mind.…

Update: Pull, Dropbox, GSUITES, RNG, and CCNA

Pull Based System Closing my Dropbox.  (Trying to) Migrate to GSUITES (gameinthebrain) Obsessing about RNG in Google Sheets CCNA Reboot Pull Based System.  I’ve become more aware of myself Buying…

Excellence and Deliberate Changes

Managers who do Not Manage: NAGGERS

Why Nagging is not leadership of Management. If you had to nag, then you know what 8D, DMAIC, Analysis, or Root Cause Analysis. People naturally ACT in their best interest,…

Dillemma of Developing World striving for Developed World Abilities

i’ve read a lot about management books and stories of how other businesses are run. One of the things I’ve come upon is that Philippines or a Developing world skilled…

Gaming the Risk Management System

Management is responsible for correcting and changing procedure as well as preventing problems (called preventive action). If you accept the mantle of manager the Processes are under your function and…

3-5 Background Apps a Year. Phone Problems. Abstract Ideas are Emotional

phone problems.  monitoring systems eat a lot of CPU and slows down the phone. From notifications, to Fitbit, to Google fit, to Voice activation for Google assistant, Running GPS, Google…

Theory of Constraint’s Focus on Flow

Local Optimums. Short term gains can that sabotages your long term goals. An in production the Long Term goal is Throughput (Making stuff that leaves the Factory Floor and allows…

Feeling My Age – Its not Catharsis its Banishing Demons.

My memory is really bad these days. I feel like i’ve done everything before but can’t remember how. Need to log everything.  Simply listening triggers my Note taking hand to Summarize…

Plan-Do-Check-ACt in EVERYTHING – even in Game Systems, and Game System Design

Seeing Cyberpunk 2077 and Cyberpunk 2020 it makes me wonder why it isnt an acceptable model to Rewrite a Scifi Setting every 3-5 years updated to consider all the new…

3 Generations of Family History in Business part 1

My Grandfather is a Lechonero. He sold a premium product that was very laborious and had a very high margin. It had one really big peak season which was Christmas,…

99% Chance and the role of Skills.

After thinking a lot about life with the lense of Survivorship Bias  I had to consolidate and work on the details of believing in two opposing views: The role of Chance…

The Client Doesnt Know what he wants, Our job is to be Technical.

You cannot have two people in the Room talking about a Topic they have no Technical Knowledge about. You cannot have a non-technical sales, talk to a client who is…

Realizations, Sisyphean

Realizations are Maxims, Policies and Mental models  1) We are almost never ready. So its best to think of situations considering – can we fail and learn cheaply and quickly?…

Leadership as defined as Agency.

Defining Influence Skills. My objective was to make trainable definitions and activities for our personnel. our HR director has always asked me to Run Leadership training and I’ve wondered why…

Handling as a Technical Definition

I’ve defined DATA Handling, Material Handling, and Attention Handling for work. And I feel like I’ve hit on a CRUCIAL Pillar in LOGISTICS. It feels like a LAW Of Physics.…

6M words of Knowledge DEBT

You’re not supposed to be able to MAGICALLY come up with a Proceedure. Even when we are ISO 9001, and we have about 20k words of proceedures already thats just…

Theory on Touch Time, Data and Material Handling, Concentration.

Handling is everything else that happens except the Changing, Creation, and Transformation of something. Data Handling and Material Handling is my mental model for a lot of the Logistics that…

Two Week Sprints, CTS, Reporting, and Annual Planning

I’ve tried to make it weekly sprints but its really no use. Continuous Training System (CTS).  Teach People to problem solve and document, so they can have more autonomy, ownership,…

Transition Point, Updates – Studies, Work, Controls

So I’m trying to cut down my Social Media Use. I think like everyone, this is a struggle and a source of much wasted mental energy. How else can I…

Musings about Skills and Abilities

The theme of the Week is the meditation of Skills and Abilities. The encounter with challenges that people don’t want to Categorize and Define, and try to Make predictions. They…

Initial Cost and Running Cost of Skills in Life

So I’ve been keeping a notebook of my TRPG mental ramblings. One of the Key thing I’ve gotten into is Decision Analysis for stuff. I realize that the same Decision…

Ideas/musings: Applying Life Lessons in TRPG Design. 10 years of blogging Game in the Brain.

My Work Fuels my TRPG musings, TRPG musings inspire my work. I know break things down to 5-10mh (manhours), then ordeals of 20mh. Its based on the load I have…

Practice and Knowledge Chunking – It is juggling scarce mental resources

So imagine what kind of practice do you want your brain to have an automatic response to. How complicated and sophisticated the workflow is the greater number of man-hours of…

Sick Today – so I get to blog. Maxims, Imagination and Role-playing

Having a slight fever and cough so I took a sick day. So i’m learning a lot and writing a lot for work. But I dont get to consolidate a…

1-2 Manhours, 4-6 (5 ave) manhour increments.

As I standardize more of my work, the Manhours to get anything done is even more tangible for me. While so many things can be done under 2 minutes significant…

Defining Management Roles – what will be the weakest link

Any job is pretty much defined by what is known. at chapter 14 in modern construction management – its talking about management role definitions. What is known – particularly knowing…

Every Process or Program is a Skill.

So it all better be written down. A small pattern has emerged that any program or project I perform takes about 4-6 manhours just to get ready and have a…

Awareness and Focus Mechanics; Songs and the Periods and Peaks

In our Working Memory/Attention and Life we can only be good at the things we focus on. Attention Mechanics Attention. (In a DnD Ability Score like system) We have as…

Update The Criteria of Understanding

So I’m going to ask our Lean Six Sigma Mentor to give another Training: The flavor of the Month is now Capacity .  This were the topics he covered. Note…