approach to optimizing product quality, cf quality control

approach to optimizing product quality, cf quality assurance

David Chapman: How To Think Real Good. Thinking about thinking: I enjoy thinking about thinking. That’s one reason I spent a dozen years in artificial intelligence research. To make a computer think, you’d need to understand how you think. So AI research is a way of thinking about thinking that forces you to be specific (more)

Sasha Chapin: Your Intelligent, Conscientious In-group Has Bad Social Norms Too. I’ve noticed that a significant number of my friends in the Rationalist and Effective Altruist communities seem to stumble into pits of despair, generally when they structure their lives too rigidly around the in-group’s principles. Like, the Rationalists become miserable by trying to govern their entire lives through nothing but rationality, and the EAs feel bad by holding themselves to an impossible standard of ethics. (more)

Cedric Chin: What To Think When Looking at a Chart. ...one question that I've had over the course of this series is: if understanding variation is so important and process behaviour charts are so good at helping you understand variation in your data, why aren't they more widely used? And I think I have a partial answer: (more)

Scott Alexander: A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures. David Chapman’s (2015-05-29) Chapman Geeks MOPs And Sociopaths In Subculture Evolution is rightfully a classic, but it doesn’t match my own experience. Either through good luck or poor observational skills, I’ve never seen a lot of sociopath takeovers. Instead, I’ve seen a gradual process of declining asabiyyah (more)

David Chapman on Countercultures: modernity’s last gasp. The countercultural mode of the 1960s-80s marked the final attempts to rescue the glory of systems from the maw of nihilistic collapse. It failed, and we live in its wreckage. (more)

Post-Rationalism, Post-Rationalist. (more)

Late modernity (or liquid modernity) is the characterization of today's highly developed global societies as the continuation (or development) of modernity rather than as an element of the succeeding era known as postmodernity, or the postmodern.[citation needed] Introduced as "liquid" modernity by the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, late modernity is marked by the global capitalist economies with their increasing privatization of services and by the information revolution.[1] Among its characteristics is that some traits, which in previous generations were assigned to individuals by the community, are instead self-assigned individually and can be changed at will.[2] As a result, people feel insecure about their identities and their places in society, and they feel anxious and distrustful about whether their self-proclaimed traits are being respected.[2] Society as a whole feels more chaotic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_modernity

Attitude expressed by Robert Anton Wilson. (more)

Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina, meaning "teaching, instruction") is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the essence of teachings in a given branch of knowledge or in a belief system. The etymological Greek analogue is "catechism".[1] Often the word doctrine specifically suggests a body of religious principles as promulgated by a church. Doctrine may also refer to a principle of law, in the common-law traditions, established through a history of past decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine framework? first principles? pattern language?

Venkatesh Rao suggets the "Milo Criterion" as a limiting factor in user acceptance of software change/disruption (products must mature no faster than the rate at which users can adapt) (Adoption Life Cycle). There is a saying that goes back to Milo of Croton: lift a calf everyday and when you grow up, you can lift a cow. He's Framing this as Slow Marketing, and contrasting it to Lean Startup theory. (more)

I’m the author of “Hearts over Diamonds” – the foundational and definitive book on Organizational Psychotherapy, the originator of Rightshifting and the creator of the Marshall Model (Dreyfus model for the organization), as well as Prod•gnosis, Emotioneering FlowChain – the enterprise-wide approach to developing software-intensive products and services, and more recently the Antimatter Principle and Flow•gnosis. https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/about/bio/

Loomio is decision-making software and web service designed to assist groups with collaborative, consensus-focused decision-making processes. It is a free software[3] web application, where users can initiate discussions and put up proposals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomio (more)

Matt Stoller: Congressional Republicans to Defund the Antitrust Division? Only, now there are a few problems. (more)

Stuck in place: How older adults end up trapped inside their own homes. Seven months ago, Betty Gray could climb the 11 inside steps leading to her Berkeley apartment, though it would take her about 15 minutes. (more)

Dialysis May Prolong Life for Older Patients. But Not by Much. ...a simulated trial involving records from more than 20,000 older patients (average age: about 78) in the Veterans Health Administration system. (simulated?) (more)

John Pavlovitz: Will White Christians Finally Elect Jesus' Way Over Their Whiteness? *The 45th President (Donald Trump) has been many things since arriving on our political landscape in 2015: a national embarrassment, a global punchline, an environmental disaster, a divider of people, a prolific murderer of the English language. (more)

Seniors, leaving the house daily may help you live longer. New research finds that older people who leave their homes every day are likelier to live longer than those who remain indoors, regardless of their health status or functional capacity. (more)

Richard Bartlett: The original Microsolidarity Proposal. Courage Before Hope: A Proposal to Weave Emotional and Economic Microsolidarity. Or: What To Do in the Last Decade of the Anthropocene (more)