Simplest Team: the Duo
THE SIMPLEST team skill I’ve figured out is Divide and Conquer with Pairing. Pair up and Coordinate very well – then divide the work. Then for every team of Work…
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Serious Concentration Penalties
So my concentration is pretty bad, I didn’t grow up with a lot of people to emulate who were good at focus and concentration, or mindfulness. I live in a…
Read more →How I (wish to) work: Blocks of Time
It boils down to Blocks of Time. That I never have a perfect uninterrupted block of time. That the ideal is i am able to concentrate – but in reality…
Read more →Walking Through the Process
i walk through the process – like an idiot (because Philippine culture does not value admitting ignorance) . I think i got it from mr. Quilloy, one of my mentors,…
Read more →Can we teach the Value of Planning
We don’t treat other engineers well. We don’t value planning and knowledge. I’m seeing a pattern. We wonder why people don’t pay for the service of Planning and Designing, and…
Read more →Do Stuff > when in Doubt, write the doubts down > Continue doing stuff
Some sudden realization that googling really IS disruptive of the processes. Do Stuff: Write a Plan, the THING, what ever it is. When in Doubt. When I hit a part…
Read more →Understanding and Planning. A developed sense of Doubt.
Doubt as a Mental Muscle. As a mental muscle it means that it is exercised to detect assumptions, the quality of our conclusions, and all the fine and detailed links…
Read more →Certainty triggering mental discomfort.
The FMEA was what I’m always looking it at with every claim, proposal, or decision. This is that red flag that “Pings” in my head anytime there is “certainty” in…
Read more →Season, Pain, and the Present
We have ebb and flow, we have seasons. It boils down to – we have multiple routines. We have recovery routines, when we’ve taken damage and need to recover. We…
Read more →Letting Go – defining the ability and the exercise.
my son ,listens to headspace and i get this very “letting go” coping mechanism out of it. (Of course I’ve heard of the coping mechanism from many other sources, particularly…
Read more →The dilemma of Monitoring vs Operations.
Monitoring takes a significant resource, for example is Activate Task Manager in my 1,700passmark laptop and i’m up by ram and Cpu goes up significantly. Writing a journal or log…
Read more →So much to do, but I can only do so much. Anxiety and Recovery.
Anxiety of the Unknown in Everything. The anxiety I feel when there are tasks to be done comes from the unknowns. The unknowns typically are from the methodology and requirements…
Read more →Addiction, Dependence, and Functional. – Personal Definitions that are Needed.
My cousin explained to me Dependence (which has a different meaning as in Wikipedia) as something we need to be “Functional”. Addition being something like an obsessions that destroys everything…
Read more →简单但无所不在
Simple but Ubiquitous. very simple things that have a large impact because of frequency and ubiquity in its nature. 这些场合有很大影响由于很高发生率。 Planned vs Actual 比较计划着就究竟事。. Always measure with what is Planned and…
Read more →A Place for things – 5S of the mind and surroundings.
Disclaimer: I am a Slob. So things are new concepts for me. To make an disorganized person organize, is to have him use organization be the method to achieve his…
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2017-09-23
reflections
The Patience to Take the Time to Coordinate and Communicate
The theme of this range of experiences is Communication, Coordination and Patience. I realize why we are terrible making plans by just looking at how we coordinate in this family…
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2017-09-11
reflections
Monitoring is Awareness
in home and self care, I noticed that you dont need to be told what to do, how much to do something, or what to stop doing. Once I started…
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2017-08-28
reflections
Awareness of how I spend my time
Why is it I’m 38 and only now I have about a 20% grasp of how I spend my time? I guess it began with a disjointed attention and environment…
Read more →Fighting Futility
Studying Managerial Accounting. I had to make time to Studying Management Accounting in order to translate the costs of the Processes, Issues, and Problems into terms other people can understand.…
Read more →When Politics is your only Tool
If politics gets things done, then we are in the wrong business. (particularly using Smoothing or deflection; instead of addressing facts) If facts can’t get things done, then we are…
Read more →Why is this our Problem?
Today I had to really really listen and really be patient. More patient than anyone has ever been for me, with the exception of my mom (thats a long story…
Read more →Monitoring first
to validate if we created processes correctly it reminds me of birds regurgitating food to chicks. We predigest it for their consumption – we may cite it and/or the Wikipedia,…
Read more →Gaming and Productivity
Have you ever used someone else’ combo? Someone’s technique as to make your current technique look like shit? That’s my early experience when I used to GM and my younger…
Read more →Product Development Dept and Process Trainer
Product Development and Process Trainer. Two roles that are important in a Production Company when they Go Lean and are coming from the Hodgepodge systems of a Philippine Company who…
Read more →Perfect is the Enemy of Good or Progress.
Looking for feedback to improve this thesis. Any project of a man-week scale typically has too little resources or too many constraints to allow working from scratch. Thus whatever flaws…
Read more →Mechanics, Criteria, and Methodology.
Give me a model, a set of criteria, or a sequence of steps to follow. If its relevant to my interests I would most likely cut and paste it to…
Read more →Skill Template
My Skills Template I notice I’ve been improving my awareness of my skills and how I cultivate, improve on and measure them. Criteria – My skill Template have the following:…
Read more →Setting up Processing Space; Simplifying Life
5S is pretty much setting up a process space. The requirements of a process space are: Accessibility. Everything you need to perform the task are accessible in 2 sec or…
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2017-06-16
reflections
Complexity and Details; Bad Benchmarks
In the last Post I talked about how I use The 20 Rules of Formulating Knowledge as a criteria for books and knowledge in general. I wanted to talk about…
Read more →Just bought the ISO 9001:2015
It cost around 166CHF (which is supposed to be swiss franks), or 7,500php or around 150usd. Reasons I had to see for myself. So my training in Bureau Veritas gave us…
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