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by calinet6 11y ago
I was actually thinking just the same thing. It feels young and not quite mature, doesn't it? We have a long way to go. Same to you. Cheers.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Yes. Good feedback, thanks. Deming himself said that any company can grow in a favorable market, so it is difficult to argue for better when indeed even running a company in a mediocre fashion can be highly successful as compared to the bas
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by calinet6 11y ago
The idea that "taking responsibility" is how we prevent bugs is what's wrong in the first place. Quality is systemic, and has its roots across the organization.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Hey, I appreciate this response. It's easy to become jaded. I'm often jaded too, and it takes everything I can muster to keep trying to improve things. Some days it's all I can do just to do my job and shut up the systems thi
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by calinet6 11y ago
No, absolutely not. I'm talking about the system of a single company; its customers, inputs, processes and people, and finally outputs. What do you think is the scope any one company is responsible for? Is there something about the qua
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by calinet6 11y ago
Interesting sarcastic, insulting proposal. I'm tackling just that issue within my own company now, and it's incredibly difficult. I'll explain why. The main issue is that once you exceed a certain number of developers, the pr
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by calinet6 11y ago
Exactly. The resistance to change is stunning. It's an ingrained psychology of individuality continuing to dig our management hole for us. Ignore the system at your peril.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Not only software companies, but most companies in the US are indeed wrong about the prevailing methods and styles of management and leadership. Is this really that surprising to you? Do companies you work with appear chaotic yet surprising
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by calinet6 11y ago
Thank you. It is incredible how much resistance there is to the idea that quality is a positive feedback loop of value -- not simply a cost.
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by calinet6 11y ago
That's a highly simplistic and incorrect viewpoint—and the correctness of a model is not dependent on popular vote. When looking at increasing quality (essentially, scope) in isolation of systems and the environment in which that quali
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by calinet6 11y ago
I hope you don't have a manager, then...
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by calinet6 11y ago
This is simply false. True systemic quality will lower costs, speed production, and increase value all at once. The reason is that, beyond a certain organizational complexity, we fail at creating the systems necessary to create the positive
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by calinet6 11y ago
It does, in fact, exist. The experience of ephemerality is all that's necessary, and the experience is that you take a photo, it exists for 10 seconds for all intents and purposes users care about, and then disappears. Disappears here
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by calinet6 11y ago
The mistake is to assume that their main differentiator is secrecy or privacy. It isn't. It's convenience, immediacy, ephemerality and its effect on how you communicate, and one-to-one direct visual communication—in that order, in
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by calinet6 11y ago
Clearly you didn't read the sign: http://i.imgur.com/7fyY4rN.jpg
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by calinet6 11y ago
Ha ha, very funny (California native here, been living in Boston for 8 years—it's a fantastic city).
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by calinet6 11y ago
I've tried several flight hacks to get there, but they actually live in Charlotte so I'd have to bail on the second leg, which means booking two legs separately and still taking a chance on getting the return one-way cancelled o
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by calinet6 11y ago
I'm talking American to Charlotte, a huge US Airways hub. US Airways was just acquired by American making it the world's largest airline. It's simply demand in the holiday case, but it's still ridiculous. At other times,
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by calinet6 11y ago
Is there some world where demand for scheduled calls exceeds the market's capacity to execute them? And no one has the means or immediate liquidity to switch what they're doing to make a profit off that gap? I'm just thinking
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by calinet6 11y ago
Just in a generic sense, the tool has something to do with it. How clear is its purpose? How unambiguous is its design? The tool is part of the system of its own use.
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by calinet6 11y ago
> This contract creates a market which allows contracts to hire people to call them at the requested time. Does that mean that if 'market conditions' deteriorate or make it unfavorable to 'take the job' as it were, th
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by calinet6 11y ago
The grocery stores are agglomerating as well. Not to mention the airlines, and I just paid a month's rent to visit my parents for Thanksgiving, which I was forced to do because, you know, grandparents have an expiration date, and Thank
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by calinet6 11y ago
They change almost nothing. We had many TLDs before, we have many TLDs now. Any system not designed to be resilient to many TLDs and multiple ways of reaching an IP is the real problem.
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by calinet6 11y ago
The high price was an excellent sign that they were overly scarce (for an otherwise limitless resource), and that more were needed. I think the new gTLDs are great. Most of them aren't exorbitantly expensive, and generally speaking the
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by calinet6 11y ago
Literally the only question I wanted answered anywhere... can't find it.
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by calinet6 11y ago
This is really the wrong question. Offering the best customer experience should, looked at systemically (aka in the context of reality), be a return on investment. Looking at it any other way is simply incorrect.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Wow. So there's a possibility that they were, in fact, diagnosed properly with Alzheimer's, and accidentally treated properly. Amazing.
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by calinet6 11y ago
This doesn't apply as cleanly to research, however, where the whole point is to discover new facts.
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by calinet6 11y ago
That is how correlations may not work, though.
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by calinet6 11y ago
Really, I was hooked on the video as soon as he did the pen flourish 4 seconds in. Nailed it.

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