August 3, 2018

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Permanently Moved 🔊

Episode 17

Fragments, collaging. I’ve been doing some eclectic reading this week across a number of subjects. Some of it is presented here.

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Fragments

 The round idea model was developed by Walter Bossier as a convenient and entertaining tool for discussing the desirability of accepting half baked ideas as subjects for serious discussion. Striking directly at the traditional concept of placing the responsibility for communication solely on the communicator, the model suggests a joint responsibility of the participants in the dialogue.

In most situations, a high value is placed on complete ideas and concepts. Ideas with straight edges and square corners. That is, if a statement is immediately perceived as being linked to other accepted ideas, it is accepted as a building block, and the speaker is rewarded for having the idea. However, if the idea cannot be perceived as a building block, the originator is punished by having his idea ignored.

Many ideas and feelings are in this latter category. Boshir refers to them as round, ideas that roll away and are lost unless someone makes the effort to retain them. To the originator, round ideas seem to be important and relevant, although he or she has not been able to square them up into building blocks.

Boshir suggests that labeling these ideas as round can serve to shore them up and hold them in place while others examine them to see if they can be more fully developed. So then, ideas need to have straight edges and square corners to be immediately useful as building blocks. Some potential valuable ideas are seen as round, they have no immediate use as building blocks and are frequently rolled away.

By joint agreement of the participants, round ideas can be identified and temporarily shored up for detailed examination and further squaring. At the heart of the round idea model is the conviction that ideas have intrinsic value, although this value may not be perceived immediately. Understanding People, Models and Concepts, Boshir and Albrecht.

Chapter 3. p13, The Smart Growth Manual. Congestion pricing: Establish user fees to reflect the true cost of driving. London, UK. A congestion pricing program has reduced traffic in the city core by 20 percent and shortened average journey time by 14%. Of course, congestion pricing is most equitable when alternatives exist, such as public transit.

The manual’s psychomagic. Trudovsky. p59. How to beat morning sluggishness. Before going to bed, the consultant should drink two liters of water. The need to urinate will awaken the consultant early and force him out of bed. If laziness persists, the consultant should simply give himself permission to urinate in the bed. The discomfort this will cause will convince the consultant to get out of bed.

Extract from the Letters of Mormas. Sent to the St. James Chronicle for publication. 1777. No man of fortune is ever taught to live, and what it is called the art of living is truly a method of killing time. I accept anyone who may have risen to the capacity of gambling. If gaming be not a virtue Or an amusement, it requires talents and attention. We have therefore, not many people who game

Global games market intelligence firm Newzoo made its annual global games market report available to subscribers last week. According to the report, there are 2. 2 billion active gamers in the world.

And as an aside, I assume they are killing time too. Private correspondence. Gchat. The wolf that lays in bed disguised as your grandma has big ears. To better hear what you are really saying. Call center management has not changed much since the 1960s. Call centers back then were organized a lot like small factories.

They had 100 people on the phones organised into teams of about 20. Normally. Based in different specialities when one person on a team was on a break either for lunch or for a coffee break No one else could be on a break The reason was fairly straightforward if 20 people went on a break at lunch keeping up with demand would be impossible fast forwarding to today Now with thousands of employees modern call centers no longer necessarily have to choose between call load and team break times That’s just the way things have always been done for decades And there’s no real incentive to change.

Also, everyone has been led to believe people analytics, Ben Faber. So what does our world look like? Let me describe to you our power animals. Wolf carcasses bored through with rifle point. Wet piles of golden eagles and buzzards fed poisoned meat. Sharks long lined and finned by fishing fleets that have butchered through the tuna shoals that we have fed our plague of familiar cats.

Barn owls bleeding from their eyes and hemorrhaging their guts down ghost white plumage due to the warfarin in rat poison. Toads and amphibian life mutating into monstrous pain death whose gelatinous bones do not float back up the river. Rewilding Witchcraft, Peter Gray. The fragments of my week, the state of things.