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Holy shite! Look at what my wordpress blog dashboard says today:
One thousand freakin’ published posts. BD00 is quite the bullsh*t l’artiste, no?
Alas, I’m still waiting for my….
A Succession Of Funerals
Science advances one funeral at a time. – Max (walk the freakin’) Planck
As implied by the quote above, new and more effective ideas/techniques/practices/methods take hold only when the old guard, which fiercely defends the status quo regardless of the consequences, “dies” off and a new generation takes over.
Frederick Winslow Taylor, who many people credit as the father of “theory X” management science (workers are lazy, greedy, and dumb), died in 1915. Even though it was almost 100 years ago, theory X management mindsets and processes are still deeply entrenched in almost all present day institutions – with no apparent end in sight.
Oh sure, many so-called enlightened companies sincerely profess to shun theory X and embrace theory Y (workers are self-motivated, responsible, and trustworthy), but when you look carefully under the covers, you’ll find that policies and procedures in big institutions are still rooted in absolute control, mistrust, and paternalism. Because, because, because…, that’s the way it has to be since a corollary to theory X thinking is that chaos and inefficiency would reign otherwise.
Alas, you don’t have to look or smell beneath the covers – and maybe you shouldn’t. You can just (bull)doze(r00) on off in blissful ignorance. If you actually do explore and observe theory X in action under a veneer of theory Y lip service, don’t be so hard on yourself or “them“: 1) there’s nothing you can do about it, 2) they’re sincerely trying their best, and 3) “they know not what they do“.
Order Imposition
When functioning correctly, the purpose of “rational thought” is to impose the illusion of order on chaos. As you well know by now, BD00, whose thoughts are dysfunctional, irrationally prefers chaos-squared over order. Actually, he doesn’t prefer it. It’s just the way it is. D’oh!
Yet Another Occupation
Since, at least for the moment, “occupying” something/anything seems to be the kool, pop-culture thing to do, BD00 has decided to temporarily change his signature graphic – until the next big meme comes along.
Lo and behold, the FAI deviation….
Of course, autographed copies of collector item T-shirts bearing this world-renowned graphic are available for a hefty price that’s affordable only to the top 1%.
BD00 is trying to build a personal “brand” and trying to sloooowly create a “tribe” since those seem to be the other two kool things to do these days. Sheesh, it sure is exhausting trying to keep up with change.
Volunteer Experience
Checkout this tidbit that I e-received from LinkedIn.com:
There are two ways to interpret the “why” of the importance of volunteer work to hiring managers:
- 4 out of 10 managers value compassionate and caring employees
- 4 out of 10 managers value employees who will work lots of unpaid overtime
Maybe its a 50-50 split between the two “whys“?
Biased At Initialization
In “Thinking, Fast and Slow“, Daniel Kahneman asserts:
The normal state of your mind is that you have intuitive feelings and opinions about almost everything that comes your way. You like or dislike people long before you know much about them; you trust or distrust strangers without knowing why; you feel that an enterprise is bound to succeed without analyzing it. Whether you state them or not, you often have answers to questions that you do not completely understand, relying on evidence that you can neither explain nor defend.
Sheesh. So much for initializing the “Bozo Bit” to the unjudgmental MBAB state and then consciously flippin’ it to one state or the other as evidence mounts over time. According to Dr. Dan, because of the lizard-like, “fast thinking” subsystem in our (bozo) brains, the Bozo Bit is biased at initialization to either IAB or INAB.
Tweet Spree!
While browsing through my online Amazon book notes, I decided to go on a short, hodgepodge tweet spree. What do you think of my spontaneous selections?
Thus, I’m a fickle, stupid, conscious (but paradoxically robotic) being living in a quantized universe who’s neither growing or developing and can’t maintain a coherent train of thought. D’oh!
Are you a member of this tribe too?
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Since it’s all about me…….
“Lighten Up Francis!” – LOL
Can’t And May
Amity and Enmity I
If you’re looking to tax your mind to the fullest and explore a novel and rigorous approach to sociological science, check out Dr. Rudolf Starkermann’s new web site, “Amity and Enmity”. The site was recently placed online by e-colleague Byron Davies and the wonderful story behind the site’s creation deserves its own separate, forthcoming blog post (Amity and Enmity II).
By syntegrating social concepts (e.g. willpower, consciousness, attitude, the unconscious, goal-seeking) with the concepts and mathematics from the engineering discipline of automatic control theory (e.g. amplification, error signal, feedback, transfer functions, stability, homeostasis, PID control), Dr. Starkermann models a living social “unit” as a self-realization seeking loop that is influenced by other social units via conscious observations/actions and subconscious “attitudes“. A social unit can represent a person, group, institution, or even a nation.
The first figure below shows a simplified first order model of the Starkermann social dualism. The second figure exposes the model’s intricately dense complexity. If you painstakingly trace out and count the number of loops in the socially coupled system, you’ll find that there are 12 of them. D’oh!
Did you have trouble finding the loops in the dualism? Well, don’t fret because here they are:
Double D’oh!
Even if you’re not an engineer who’s taken a course in automatic controls theory, you may get something out of “Amity And Enmity“. Dr. Starkermann valiantly tries to make his work accessible to the non-mathematical layman via many careful and empathic explanations throughout the treatise.
By fixing some parameters and varying others, Rudy has “calculated the behavior” of the dualism in a multitude of scenarios in order to discover what his models reveal about amity and enmity. Here’s a sample list of his “stark” conclusions:
- Nature favors enmity and sets amity second.
- Hostility is fast, consent is slow.
- The faster a “unit” thinks, acts, the larger its willpower can be before it runs into instability and the better and faster it reaches its goal.
- The probability is almost non-existent that a hate-relation changes into a friendship.
- Hostility is solid. Friendship is fragile.
While sloowly making my way through the dense thicket that is “Amity And Enmity“, the following quote keeps coming to mind:
All models are wrong, but some are useful – George Box
Why am I here?
WTF?
Meh!
D'oh!
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