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Anyone Can Do It

27 points by bkudria 5y ago

simne 5y ago
Interest list. But from first look I see very important flaw - it is linear. - I think, knowledge space is multidimensional, and some parts are hierarchical, and in most cases, parts should have their weights. Mean, some things are magnitudes more weighted than others (unfortunately this differs depend on exact case, on geography, on legal things, etc, and even could significantly change in relatively short time, when for example, EU implements some new GDPR like thing).
- eternityforest 5y ago
  Author here! That definitely is a major flaw, that I unfortunately have no idea how to resolve, because some of these are even contradictory, or completely useless in some cases, and the list isn't really domain-specific enough to be properly structured(Aside from the math textbook subproject). I think a lot of the value is closer to the same purpose as the Oblique Strategies, and just as a general polemic, because a lot of people seem to just unquestioningly accept the "Stop trying to control things, live on the edge" idea. It's not really practical in the pure form, because the base assumption is that there is no task simple enough to assume everyone can do it reliably, so we should have a plan for everything, even counting to ten, because a kitchen knife accident can be just as deadly as a rock climbing one. A more focused approach is Crew Resource Management(Which I spent several days summarizing the basic outline of on Wikipedia, but that is apparently gone and replaced with some case studies). CRM is a lot more focused on generally competent and well trained people, and has a lot of super useful insight for life and engineering.
  - simne 5y ago
    Thank you for being here! This is very pleasant. And I have answers for large part of this question. 1. Very big paradigm for controlling of enterprise and/or development of products, relatively new - Goldratts Theory of Constraints. (ToC). 2. Magnitudes simpler approach, but idea basically same - critical path method from Project Management domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method 3. For very limited resources, excellent, relatively small source of ideas, how to win (in our case, how to deliver successful products to concurrent market), The Art of War Sun Tzu. But important to read few translations, because some incomplete, and others too hard to understand. Good luck!
    - eternityforest 5y ago
      The Art of War is fantastic and timeless. It's amazing how it applies even when you have no actually sentient enemy, or when you do, but you just want to get away from them. I haven't heard of Goldratt's theory beforeb that looks very interesting!

27 points by bkudria 5y ago

Interest list. But from first look I see very important flaw - it is linear. - I think, knowledge space is multidimensional, and some parts are hierarchical, and in most cases, parts should have their weights. Mean, some things are magnitudes more weighted than others (unfortunately this differs depend on exact case, on geography, on legal things, etc, and even could significantly change in relatively short time, when for example, EU implements some new GDPR like thing).

eternityforest 5y ago
Author here! That definitely is a major flaw, that I unfortunately have no idea how to resolve, because some of these are even contradictory, or completely useless in some cases, and the list isn't really domain-specific enough to be properly structured(Aside from the math textbook subproject). I think a lot of the value is closer to the same purpose as the Oblique Strategies, and just as a general polemic, because a lot of people seem to just unquestioningly accept the "Stop trying to control things, live on the edge" idea. It's not really practical in the pure form, because the base assumption is that there is no task simple enough to assume everyone can do it reliably, so we should have a plan for everything, even counting to ten, because a kitchen knife accident can be just as deadly as a rock climbing one. A more focused approach is Crew Resource Management(Which I spent several days summarizing the basic outline of on Wikipedia, but that is apparently gone and replaced with some case studies). CRM is a lot more focused on generally competent and well trained people, and has a lot of super useful insight for life and engineering.
- simne 5y ago
  Thank you for being here! This is very pleasant. And I have answers for large part of this question. 1. Very big paradigm for controlling of enterprise and/or development of products, relatively new - Goldratts Theory of Constraints. (ToC). 2. Magnitudes simpler approach, but idea basically same - critical path method from Project Management domain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method 3. For very limited resources, excellent, relatively small source of ideas, how to win (in our case, how to deliver successful products to concurrent market), The Art of War Sun Tzu. But important to read few translations, because some incomplete, and others too hard to understand. Good luck!
  - eternityforest 5y ago
    The Art of War is fantastic and timeless. It's amazing how it applies even when you have no actually sentient enemy, or when you do, but you just want to get away from them. I haven't heard of Goldratt's theory beforeb that looks very interesting!