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by asplake 5y ago
To be fair, you are about 60% water…
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Machu Picchu is older than previously thought(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by asplake 5y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 5y ago
In the case of the Phoenix project, you may be misattributing what were references to Goldratt’s The Goal (almost certainly if the book is outside the technology space). Really the reference is to the underlying model, Theory of Constraints
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by asplake 5y ago
Common, and it has both upsides and downsides. Some deviations are positive innovations. The challenge is to recognise and take responsibility for downward drift without squashing innovation.
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by asplake 5y ago
Less mysterious: “Immunity to change”, Kegan & Lahey (HBR, 2009)
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by asplake 5y ago
Historically a fan of Toyota and I loved the RAV4 hybrid I had until a couple of years ago. Saw the writing on the wall though when they started their “self-charging hybrid” nonsense, like we don’t all know a euphemism when we hear one
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by asplake 5y ago
That’s not a bad starting point. There’s more than one kind of feedback though! No matter how regularly you reflect on the process, if you’re ploughing through an unchanging backlog it’s still going to be a mediocre experience. Worse if the
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by asplake 5y ago
> [Works best in environments with] general agreement on the organization's overall goals, so that people can agree on how to choose among alternatives. Something I would add to the process is an early exploration of the organisatio
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by asplake 5y ago
Reader mode on Safari works ok, if that’s any help
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by asplake 5y ago
Websites are financed by people and organisations with all kinds of motivations and business models. Websites don’t all have to make a profit! It is totally unfair (not to mention nonsensical) to represent the above argument as leading to t
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by asplake 5y ago
I wouldn’t write off platforms such as Elastic Beanstalk and Heroku for web projects, smaller ones of bog-standard shape anyway
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How Not to Groupthink(timharford.com)
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by asplake 5y ago
Did you mean https://twitter.com/jhanikhil/status/1410713976695144450?s=2... perhaps?
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by asplake 5y ago
That’s not at all how I use HMW. For me it’s not a prompt but a way to re-frame answers as challenges when to solutionise would be premature. As the article acknowledges, HMW long predates Design Thinking. I have some links on Challenge Map
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by asplake 5y ago
2021: Tagging is overrated I remember enjoying this piece first time round. Not sure how well it has aged though. Tagging seems nowhere near as exciting as it did 16 years ago.
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by asplake 5y ago
Yes, though word is much broader in application than that. See for example generative design [1]. Pattern languages also, and the deliberate juxtaposition of things as a creative catalyst. Sort of in line with the article I have two metapho
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by asplake 5y ago
> Put another way: the conventional use of “emergent” has a rather passive flavour. What I'm talking about is a much more active imaginative stance, the kind of stance taken by people like Bret Victor or Satoshi or Picasso. "ge
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by asplake 5y ago
I wonder if it is yet possible to lease secondhand EVs? I’ve leased two Toyota hybrids (both new) and for me it’s the way to go. (But don’t get me started on Toyota’s “self-charging hybrid nonsense”)
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by asplake 5y ago
Plenty of posts critical of Agile. Personally I think that’s a shame but I fully get where they’re coming from. Scale it up and you tend to amplify the dysfunctions, especially when no-one asked for it to be done to them in the first place.
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by asplake 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories
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by asplake 5y ago
The ultimate subscription would be to the kind of car I need right now, just in time
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by asplake 5y ago
Just-in-time compilation
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by asplake 5y ago
The need to avoid overloading the system exists regardless of whether it’s public, private, or a mixture of the two. Just look at New York and India for examples from very different cultures and political systems. Edit: not to mention Italy
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by asplake 5y ago
Um, not sure I want to open that link. What does it do?
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by asplake 5y ago
Fact Check-COVID-19 vaccines are not ‘cytotoxic’ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/am...
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by asplake 5y ago
The cybernetics community was very aware of the limitations of command and control. If anything, ahead of its time on that philosophically as well as having the maths to prove it. Read some Stafford Beer (the father of Viable System Model).
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Sony Music writes off artists' decades-old debts(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by asplake 5y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 5y ago
Question: can herd immunity be achieved without vaccinating children?
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by asplake 5y ago
Along a lot of other good things, achieving the appropriate level of nuance is well covered in Adam Grant’s recent book Think Again. Highly recommended, and the author-narrated audiobook is excellent.
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by asplake 5y ago
I recognise a bit of Suresh (if that’s his real name) in myself but still agree with Steve’s advice. Suresh and his boss were already talking. “OK I’m on it and I’ll start sounding out some potential customers” would have done quite nicely

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