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... gets battered and is unsustainable. |
... events propagate quickly and universally (making them not long-tail for system as a whole), so little island of linearity/visibility |
@tastapod But that's a linear model that assumes high visibility. Perrow's argument might be that in a complex system, "long tail" |
@qualityfrog See, I think there's something more to it than short-term thinking. But what, I'm not sure. |
@mtnygard "M theory"? Possibly interested in collaboration, but not good at distant collboration. Want to drag more people in. Suggestions? |
@chris_mcmahon Tell me more. |
Conclusion: I might be able to work this into a good paper. Hmm |
Thought: it would be good to examine Agile, Lean, Kanban from these perspectives. |
Conclusion: "sustainable work" is under-emphasized. |
Item: Agile projects don't seem resilient. They seem to die easily. Are they operating on edge of failure? |
... "drive out waste" part of Lean. http://tinyurl.com/5a4g7a |
... the system becomes more complex than linear. This is a salable justification to my negative reaction to the |
Item: a poster child for efficiency is just-in-time manufacturing, removal of buffers. But we're seeing how fragile that is when |
Item: I agree that the quest for efficiency is part of the systemic problem in the global financial system. Efficiency has ruined resilience |
... Normal Accidents theory http://tinyurl.com/3ujpku |
Item: I've been skeptical of Boyd and the OODA loop http://tinyurl.com/73hfe8, but I'm starting to get glimpses of connections to |
Item: current global financial situation is well described by Perrow's "normal accidents" http://tinyurl.com/a988gd |
George Pelecanos' _The Turnaround_ is oddly... sweet, from a writer of detective fiction, writer on _The Wire_, who I have not read much. |
Jonathan Carroll's _The Ghost Who Loved Her_ continues his slump. Nice bits, last 20-30 pages improve, but many events unmotivated. |
@garybernhardt In aquamacs, I think you'll find C-x 5 2 (new frame) more useful than split-window. I bind M-C-x o to other-frame. |
