The “Simple Case of A500” occurred 10 years ago. I’m currently coding the “Son of A500”. Completely different companies, completely different products, a decade apart. I’m the only common factor. And even I’m different. The...
A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. -Alfred Korzybski Recently I spent two weeks in Berkeley CA helping a client upgrade one of their control systems. I wasn’t...
On your blog of Thursday, September 01, 2005 “Giving up to get ahead” you talk about moving insurance agents. I’ve just been through the process of ‘firing’ my accountant of near 10 years. She hasn’t served me well for a number of...
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein. In my years in “da biddness”, I’ve seen people time, and time, and time again do the same thing, and wonder why it didn’t work. And when what...
We take in information from our environment in discrete steps. We abstract from the continuous data streams (aka “The Real World”) in the following order: Something happens (Event) We sense what happens (Object) We recognize what happens (Description) We...
“Communication is a system of interaction. In some sense communication is always flawed because it is impossible simply to put one’s thoughts and understandings directly into someone else’s head.” Bernard Mayer Two recent events reminded me...
