Notes from 2014.01.07
Deciding
Like insports like baseball:
- Know what success looks like (victory conditions)
- Understand your own strategy and method
- Undertand policies and rules (frameworks)
- Know who is expected or required to decide (who "has the ball")
You must ask to know 2 and 3. For 4, if no one's clear, you may call the option for yourself (if appropriate), or challenge and appropriate other person to take the decision
Engineering in Economics
E.F. Schumacher, Small is beautiful:
Methods and equipment must be (all three below)
- cheap enough for universal availability
- suitable for small-scale application
- compatible with human creativity
Aldous Huxley: Purpose of engineers and inventors:
To provide ordinary people with the means of
doing profitable and intrinsically significant work, of helping men and women to achieve independence from bosses, so that they may become their own employers, or members of a self-governing, cooperative working for subsistence and a local market... this differently oriented technological progress [would result in] a progressive decentralization of population, of accessibility of land, of ownership of the means of production, of political and economic power.
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Wisdomous - it's definitely a word.
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