Raw, unordered and unstructured. Let me know which one you want me to write about.

1 step forward 2 steps back

The illusion of progress

Saving the forest and Black Friday

The cloud doesn’t exist, there’s only other peoples computers

NL and EU leading digitisation

Digitalisation, NL, EU, analogous processes

In NL we are already used to the Digital only paradigm while probably a lot of our customers are have many analogue operational processes or parts of processes.

That is an important thing to realise when developing

Just enough structure

Team topologies Implicit leadership wegwerpstructuur

Optimise throughput

To not get blocked in decision making when sorting piles of stuff / ideas / crap, make 3 piles:

  1. Throw away
  2. Keep
  3. Doubt

Don’t let lack of choice block throughput, a tool to do that is above piles. Describe problem <> solution process

But that doesn’t always solve the problem

Sure and not so sure type people, how do they approach this?

Types of people vs choice matrix:

The tool comes with a mindset or approach, if that is lacking, the tool is useless

Tools provide most leverage to people with already proper mindset

Ladders of abstraction

Semantic hijacking

Devlid stickers

Each sticker is a story

Hacker camp

Kid prodigy with chaperone for social interaction CCC boycotting OHM SHA with kids Hacker Mindset

My mother was a feminist

But I didn’t know

I see persons, all of them idiots that I despise

Surprises

We don’t expect any surprises

Notes on the synthesis of form

Skills, experts & visionaries

Someone who made all mistakes in a certain field

Show the toolbox:

  1. skill = a filled toolbox
  2. expert = knowing which tool to pick
  3. visionary = knowing the tool is not there (yet) but will be some day

Heuristics table Decision tree flowchart

Vision is listening to your surroundings and be open for change Most visionaries are sending

Human creativity is the import and export of ideas via communication. Communication is imperfect evolution of ideas.

The perils of financialisation

https://twitter.com/mikesington/status/1608932204784287746?s=46&t=LQTAbXfaP18t78vrO4IM3w

Financialisation of HR, see HBR article

Japanese service level

JR refund story Matsumoto

EO services are foreign food

Looks tempting, definitely interesting, sometimes tasty, sometimes horrific but you only know if it’s for you when you taste it.

Early adopter paradigm trap

Don’t let early adopters catch you in the incumbent paradigm: they will forward requirements based on the context of their current paradigm; for example: desktop thinking where each file is local, discrete and a snapshot in time versus cloud where there is a remote, constantly updated data stream

Nobody wants insights

Blogify the Mollema presentation “No one wants pixels, they want insights” is wrong

Architecture elevator

A. Pushing buttons is lost knowledge

B. Writing (code) is potential knowledge

C. Architectured code is shared knowledge

Potential knowledge is useless

From potential knowledge to shared knowledge

Monitoring versus surveillance

Monitoring: continuously assess state of the system and its components

Surveillance (tracking): assess state of objects or subjects (persons) whithin or relative to a system or it’s surroundings.

Hidden work

Spillover The company on paper, the company in life The map and the territory

The role of companies in society

Neoliberal reductionism responsibility Long term thinking (Roman Krnaric)

State slaves (Orwell) vs Corporate slaves (2020)

Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine

Accumulation / centralisation is not good: wealth, information, access, knowledge,

Commoditisation of Carbon & Biodiversity

& nature Reductionism, NFT, web3, privatisation, Political role of companies Inverse tragedy of the commons Private companies donate / tax / fund institutions with electable boards? Executive institutions, policy making institutions, checking institutions Financialisation cost based accounting

Debt

Debt implies Capital, negative capital, borrowed. The interest is the problem, but only if it impedes growth (<– growth is a problematic term?)

  • Add to debt blog Financial Technical Organisational debt
  • Consultancy is aflossingsvrije hypotheek
  • we lack trust not urgency
  • Structure replaces trust
  • The more trust, the less structure is needed
  • Cultural capital Social capital
  • the organisation as part of society, not disconnected from society

Gradual

Appreciate the insignificant life changing moments Those moments are not announced by the trumpets of the apocalypse You have to recognise them to appreciate them Quote Pieter Bieri (??) nachttrein naar Lissabon Heb vertrouwen dat de toekomst zal brengen wat je ervan verwacht.

Errors are inevitable. Incrementalism makes it easier to correct them.

Incrementalism calls for ceaseless change: kaizen

The consultant effect

Description:New product in new market Higher is better Accuracy instead of consistency

Consultants writing RFPs

Paradox: refer to SVPG post about how McKinsey will block transformational change

Why misunderstandings are ok

  • The idea that you will understand a person is wrong
  • Energy spent on making your point is fruitless
  • Confidence & Trust