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Re: The Divine Message Of The August Eclipse - UNSEALED - World News | Christian News | Prophecy Updates

Rotkapchen — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:31:46 -0000

One version I saw mapped 7 different cities named Salem in the 2017 path.

And for all the doubters, it's your funeral. 2024 will bring serious financial collapse. We're on the way now.

Re: <i>Trial & Error</i> fills its latest episodes with even more laughs than last week’s installments

Rotkapchen — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:15:08 -0000

The show is so uninteresting I've just had it on in the background for the last two weeks. I hadn't even noticed his name until tonight and immediately when I heard Henderson, images of Bigfoot flashed into my head!

Re: If SCOTUS Says No Way to Subsidies, How Bad Will It Be for Plans?

Rotkapchen — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 08:58:55 -0000

Suggesting that there would be too much confusion sounds like questioning the transition from 3 major television networks to cable network programming. Do we have less choices now? No. We now have Amazon putting out major programming.

This is only the beginning of a natural course of disintermediation.

Re: Design thinking thoughts

Rotkapchen — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 10:27:54 -0000

I think you've touched briefly on the critical differentiator of Design Thinking, but may not have gone far enough. It's real potential is it's recognition and even celebration of the 'unseen' -- of which science predominantly eschews and engineering only recognizes in the form of physical vibrations. In reality engineering is close because of the recognition of vibrations.

Here's the deal -- all life, everything, all life force, is a mass of pulsating vibrations. At least in the version of Design Thinking in my head, the real potential is to tap that energy and direct it in some direction for good.

Science and Engineering know nothing of emotion, but Design Thinking has to consider all the human elements of a solution -- emotion is a critical one.

I like to think of Design Thinking as the engineering of the kinetic potential of all things. In this case, the engineer is more like that of a railroad professional -- there are tracks in place and equipment with .limitations. Capitalizing on these limitations is key. That's where design comes in -- the science of constraints. Then you become both conductor and composer, creating a new symphony and playing it out.

Indeed we are problem solving, but we also have to reframe our perspective of problems as we often see them in negative terms. In music, the 'problems' being solved have to do with honoring the constraints of the vibrations -- knowing the rules of chords and dissonance and how to break them successfully, when relevant.

Design Thinking is not the tool of professional designers. Design Thinking is a mechanism for all disciplines. Any time there is a plan, or something to be coordinated, or an effort -- any time people or things are involved, Design Thinking is relevant.

I still insist that there is significance to using the pattern test for all of these things when considering the 'optimal' value of a solution/answer: have you embraced the relevant unseen elements (emotions, concerns, apathy, forces unknown -- all vibrations that can propel something forward or stifle it), have you capitalized on the human potential contribution, have you mechanized the repeatable with minimal variation or decision (where the human contribution holds minimal value), and have you automated with no variability those things that must be 'firm'? Have you created a relevant balance between these 4 dimensions that allows them to inform one another and adapt to changing conditions?

That's the true potential of Design Thinking.

Re: Zynga Releases Words With Friends For Android

Rotkapchen — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 23:19:18 -0000

Why the heck does it not work with 4G?

Re: Kate Middleton probably spent less on childbirth than the average American women - The Week

Rotkapchen — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:17:51 -0000

Indeed, the real travesty in our costs being 'out of control' IS insurance. It removes consumer interest to hold providers accountable for costs.

Re: Is HR interested in the Digital Workplace? | Chieftech's Blog

Rotkapchen — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:11:29 -0000

For all the years I've worked in corporations HR has never served as a champion on my behalf or any other employee (except when attempting to adhere to quotas). It is not part of their makeup -- which is mainly focused on administrivia. Which is why outsourcing HR is so 'easy' to do. One company uniquely positioned to capitalize on this is http://www.insperity.com/

We still then have the issue of where the energy or resources to truly pursue workplace collaboration can reside.

All circles back to my longer-than-a-decade rant about our organizational designs being sorely out of date.

Re: You have no idea

Rotkapchen — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:23:45 -0000

My stomach is turning. This immediately made me think of the entire Idea Management industry. What a bunch of charlatans and hucksters. The last thing a business needs is an idea management system.

Re: What Google, Harvard, and Other Organizations Discovering Design Can’t Afford to Miss

Rotkapchen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:41:11 -0000

And given the reality that design relies on 'constraints', where is it exactly that those 'constraints' are going to be discovered?

Re: What Google, Harvard, and Other Organizations Discovering Design Can’t Afford to Miss

Rotkapchen — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:39:44 -0000

"Design Thinking is just a new Buzzword" Spoken by the uninformed. It's an 'approach' that has more to do with UX than UX and has been coined since the 70s.

Re: Sublation

Rotkapchen — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:53:15 -0000

Can I raise you a soul? Our 'soul' is both body and spirit.

But I really love the geist connection (can't wait to tell scriptorian hubby). This further emphasizes the fact that historically the Catholic Church regularly referred to the Holy Ghost, but eventually deferred to Holy Spirit (as if it were more 'politically' correct --- hmmm, although the sign of the cross is made with reference to the Holy Ghost). The LDS Church still holds firm to predominant reference to the 3rd divine entity as the Holy Ghost - the means by which to receive pure knowledge, which touches our mind and our heart.

To cancel and to keep -- a great design paradox. It is a kata for renewing and shaping (growth).

Re: Natural birth for creativity

Rotkapchen — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:30:57 -0000

Love the concept. Oddly, there's another dimension to this and it has to do with physical posturing. While I never did get to try it, when I described the delivery problems I'd had with my 2 daughters a doola suggested that I should have been on my hands and knees rather than laying down because it would have changed the position of my pelvis which also might have been acting as a barrier. So now we've circled back to the normal things we should look for which is allowing for the natural flow of energy and embracing 'natural' constraints (working through them and 'with' them), but also looking for ways to eliminate 'unnatural' barriers (flaws). The main problem I always see is differentiating between the two. Normally the only way to consider the possibilities is simply to try it.

Re: How Big Companies Should Innovate

Rotkapchen — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:17:31 -0000

Have you jumped too quickly to a conclusion? There's another possibility here that would make Gerber's failure brilliant: if they learned something about the market that was not possible without going 'through' this failure.

A fundamental principle of Design Thinking is to 'fail often'. Are our filters for defining 'success' outmoded? Did you even check to find out what the result of this failure is inside of Gerber?

I'm not disagreeing with your fundamental premises of organizationally-limiting innovation, at all. The problem is, assessing for same goes way beyond the limits you've prescribed here. Innovation requires failure. The real story is in what Gerber learned from the failure, but that story is missing.

Re: Romney wins the first round

Rotkapchen — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:40:10 -0000

I'm still trying to figure out how many average households we made up for by taking a >$150K hit on our income. Preserve the middle class? Hell, Obama has cleanly thrown us into the 'hood' (a place he's never seen the inside of).

Re: The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning - Harvard Business Review

Rotkapchen — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:01:24 -0000

Brilliant stuff, well before its time.

From the opening: "True to the scientific management pioneered by Frederick Taylor, this one best way involved separating thinking from doing"This may be one of the single most relevant clues as to the significance of the need for design thinking today: to undo the damage imposed by Frederick Taylor -- recognizing that the goal is not to eliminate what Taylor recommends, but to bring it back to balance. Taylorism is the fundamental embodiment of the algorithm and binary code. The design thinking model adds back in mystery (the essences and spiritual nature of all things) and heuristics -- the human ability to adapt and respond to things that don't 'fit' the algorithms -- handling exceptions -- well, and honoring spiritual matters.

"Strategy making is not an isolated process. It does not happen just because a meeting is held with that label. To the contrary, strategy making is a process interwoven with all that it takes to manage an organization. Systems do not think, and when they are used for more than the facilitation of human thinking, they can prevent thinking."
We believe that design thinking would be one in the same with strategy making as described here -- it is an approach to achieve same.

Fundamentally, everything has a design.

Re: Taxonomy planning in SharePoint 2010

Rotkapchen — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:05:06 -0000

"Strict": If you're dealing with a 'strict' taxonomy, you're dead -- if it's too loose, ditto. A taxonomy must be living, but to do so, it must have 'living energy' breathed into it. It must adapt to the changing needs of the business.

If taxonomies were unchanging then dictionaries would be too. I realize that 'strict' does not mean unchanging, but it does imply inflexibility.

Re: Silver bullets in a world of business vampires

Rotkapchen — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:58:24 -0000

I am so intrigued by the 'what' that is behind all of this. It struck me most when you mentioned Nokia. It begs the question, what was it that 'enabled' them and what was it that 'disabled' them?

Re: FOX 10 News - Phoenix, AZ | KSAZ-TVEmployer defends Texas teen jailed for missing too much school

Rotkapchen — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:30:42 -0000

I have no idea why the judge actually had any right to wage the punishment on her. The truancy laws also provide for students to opt out of school at age 16. The Texas truancy law is not one for the rights of education, it is one for the protection of funding which requires 'butts in seats'.

Many parents are allowing (as we, as college graduates did) their children to opt out of Texas public education at the age of 16.

Re: Arlington Mayor tamps down on citizen speaking

Rotkapchen — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:00:14 -0000

Indeed, in a series of educational meetings I've been attending for finding better ways to improve Dallas city planning, the topic of dialog was discussed. That for the most part, such council reviews are a formality that are not intended to really 'hear' or consider comment. They're simply offered as a means of checking off an item from a list.
The 'noise' of dissonance that is happening in these meetings is a natural occurrence as the real needs find a way to 'break through' the existing system to create another.

The need for dialog is real. The ability to achieve it will be a struggle in the current model.

Re: Council plan calls for thousands of new apartments in Arlington

Rotkapchen — Sat, 12 May 2012 09:43:01 -0000

"
taking from others and being a DETRIMENT to society" "
Being poor does not give one license to be lazy and ignorant. "

Again more assumptions and accusations being waged on others (and yet rejects labels for self) -- being applied wontonly and in broad strokes -- not specific cases and specific examples, specific individuals and specific cases.

And thanks, I'm getting ready now to serve in a leadership volunteer role, as I do each week, even though I can't really afford the gas. It is a sacrifice I gladly make.

Perhaps you could go pick up the trash at your school, as I do in the grounds of my apartment each day as I walk, knowing that trash is a symptom of many other things, including a sense of worth and value of others -- something that must be extended in order to influence a change in others.

Whatever your goals, your methods are flawed for achieving the results you desire. It is time to rethink your approach.

Re: Council plan calls for thousands of new apartments in Arlington

Rotkapchen — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:39:39 -0000

What assumptions underlie terms like 'blight'? You're labeling human beings as blight. I live with that blight and among them are sweet, loving children who go to school to become contributing members of our society, just as many of their parents are -- hard working people.

Where I live (now in Dallas) most of the residents rely on walking and public transportation as their only means of getting around. And yes, I have a very good friend who lives in one of those 'blighted' units across the street from the new arena -- who walks everywhere he needs to go -- to church, to the doctor, to the grocery store, to the library.

What forms of elitism would deny citizens a place to live in order for them to contribute to our society or just to exist at all? Would you suggest that they live further from their jobs that they should then walk further?

As for the student housing, I lived blocks away from where the new ones are going in (and my daughter and her husband still do). A good portion of the newest ones ARE on school property. And a good many of the existing student housing units were existing private units bought by the university and transformed into more livable facilities -- improving the community.

As for the 'off campus' units that are across the street from campus, they replaced run-down homes that badly served the needs of a few students, wherein the same space hundreds more are served, with better results.

You appear to be missing a lot of 'facts'. Again, not responsible citizenry. Inflamed opinion formed by very obvious personal agendas fed by a very self-serving, not citizen-serving perspective.

I'm not seeing any defensible facts in your list: "those residents who owned homes"...I lived there, I was one of those residents -- I am refuting your claims. Indeed, most of my complaints came from the over-privileged, irresponsible students who lived in the more expensive townhomes that I lived in. They were the only residents I had problems with.

Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign

Rotkapchen — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:31:07 -0000

If on Twitter, please share @gmail alternatives for online email UI and tag it with #abandongmail

Re: Devdutt Pattanaik @devduttmyth at #indiasocial12 #video

Rotkapchen — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:38:24 -0000

Noted something for which I disagree: "If I can't measure something, I can't compare...contrast"

Ayn Rand suggests that you often have to arrive at what something 'is' by identifying what it is not. This can only be done by comparing/contrasting. We learn all things based on this fundamental principle: comparing attributes. As she notes, children learn to differentiate things that roll, from things that do not, things that are soft from things that are hard.

Perhaps there is something more fundamental here that goes back to the principle of what I am vs what I have. How do you differentiate "I" from having? Just by existing you have...attributes which distinguish you from another. If the fundamental meaning of measure applies to these things, then there is no difference between what I am and what I have.

If you don't 'have' attributes, you cease to exist.

Re: If You Think Your Team Makes Decisions, Think Again

Rotkapchen — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:43:17 -0000

Now let's ask a more important question: what happened after the decision was made? This evaluation is very conveniently over-simplified.

Indian mythology clearly teaches that leaders who make all the decisions for their people aren't leaders at all. Leaders surely need to influence decisions and sometimes pull out the stops to make a decision, but there are far more situations where individuals have to be part of any decision that requires them to act and support the decision. Otherwise we're not talking leadership, we're talking dictatorship.

It's a classic case of contextual relevance: it depends.

In either case, because you've chosen one answer over another -- makes you automatically wrong.

Re: Is change management becoming obsolete ?

Rotkapchen — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:23:42 -0000

Indeed.

The problem begins with 'management', similar to the issues with 'knowledge management'. What both of them need are as you suggested "improving agility and collective and individual resilience"

Therein begins the challenge.

The sad part is, as I was experiencing today looking at pictures from an old project and realizing there were people in the picture I'd forgotten existed at all -- I had no recollection of them and were it not for the photos, I might have sworn I'd never met them before -- but I'd worked with them (one guy I ate lunch with on the edge of a cliff -- and they say stuff like that is supposed to cement memories). The point being -- we forget. -- a lot.

Few start with the reality that to work on " improving agility and collective and individual resilience" one of the first things we have to provide is a collective, active memory. A means by which we can 'find' each other and each other's work, interests and aspirations. Half the time when I go back and read some of my old posts, I forgot that I wrote them at all. And as I've witnessed on a LinkedIn discussion group that I manage, the same questions keep coming up over and over again -- in one case a person who insisted he'd done a search and was 'new' to the group, indeed was to have been found to have asked the same question in the group 2 years prior.

The thing is, the closest we have to doing some of that -- creating additional versions of our own memories and existences/experiences -- are the social tools. LinkedIn reminds us of people we might know. Our browsers remind us of the things that are related to something we're looking for was we search. But they have a long way to go.

The point being we need these sorts of 'bots' (as we thought we were going to be calling them when we talked of them years ago), to help connect the dots and draw associations for us. We need the proverbial match-maker.

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