Top-down is a plan of how the WHOLE is going to work Bottom-up is how you intend to EXECUTE various subparts By nature top subsumes the bottom, but it’s only at the bottom that you explore it in all practical nuance (i.e. literally execute). And only once you executed the constituent parts — do …
Tag: Organisation
Object Thinking vs RELATIONAL Thinking
We tend to consider reality in terms of FIXED OBJECTS, ENTITIES, E.g. dog, tree, you, me, Scotsman, Russia, etc. This of course runs into multiple problems, Entity you assume to be fixed — often eludes fixed boundaries, Which poisons your reasoning with category errors, E.g. judging entire race by the behaviour of some of …
Society Is Tribal, But Not Tractable
Society is tribal: -Learns mimetically -Optimises for consensus -Has instilled biases in favour of one’s group -etc But it’s also not a motionless solid, that once wrought a certain way, stays that way Nor one that is easily shaped and manipulated from outside, while having no volition or behaviour of it’s own What …
do it MEDIOCRE vs PROPER vs EXCELLENT
Let’s consider the stages from SHIT to EXCELLENCE: poorly, mediocre, properly, excellently (robustly), too well POORLY will fuck you up almost immediately -the wheels will fall off -you’ll be late by 3h -MULTIPLE things will magically go wrong -everything is of obvious poor quality visible to the naked eye -unpleasant in taste -really dangerous, …
What is Urgency, Actually?
What is urgency, actually? Is it desire? Desire to have something as soon as possible? Is it effort? Incurring dramatic effort, in order to get it done faster? Is it prioritisation? Pulling all resources into that single undertaking first? Is it stress? A necessary, painful token validating one’s seriousness? A chicken …
About Building Powerful Systems (And Not Ideologies)
System works best when there’s a number of options, fallbacks and safety measures It’s not only robust but also agile. It’s antifragile indeed System is appraised by how it works as a whole How it’s subcomponents work can meaningfully inform how the whole works — or can be profoundly misleading (non-ergodic systems) Competition, …
Only Stupid Problems Are “Problems”
It’s STUPID problems which are annoying, not “problems” “Problems” are opportunities Stupid problems are fucking problems Fundamentally “STUPID PROBLEMS” are FALSE problems = their ROOT CAUSE is UNDERNEATH, hinting to a DIFFERENT PROBLEM =ADDRESSING the UNDERLYING is the REAL aim And NOT treating symptoms Thus when solving STUPID problems, there’s a sense of …
About Reliability
There are 3 levels of RELIABILITY: -perfect reliability -solid reliability -and unreliability Unreliability is near useless Solid reliability is acceptable Perfect reliability is twice as good as “acceptable”… or 10 times as good, or 100 times The only reason one would ever compromise on reliability, OBVIOUSLY, is if: -there’s some other benefit e.g. …
Labels Contributing Nuance (And Not Destroying Nuance)
Labels can be viewed as a layers in ontology It’s a way of organising data into categories Organisation of data yields insights Insights contribute nuance — rather than take away Labels destroy nuance if you: -start with a label (rather than the data) -then pigeonhole the data into that label, that category -and you …
MISCOMMUNICATION IS CHEATING
Humans have many explicit AND IMPLICIT ways in which they communicate Likewise humans have different kinds of relationships (with closer relationships typically necessitating superior communication) The absolute fundamentals of communication are deeply wired: -you convey your feelings with your bearing -and others can feel how you feel -and human can always SENSE their place …