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Just in case you think i don't have boundaries for work, a skype chat from dawn
6:12 AM
colleague: Hi. Sorry to bug you first thing but I want to talk about [stuff]. is this the time to panic?
me: i haven't taken a sip of my tea yet. If this is a panic about the may install, i'd like to wait until 7:30 when i talk to [Sheffield colleague].
Of course, now i'm curious about the [stuff] but i still can focus on things like the xkcd comic that shows the depths of the planet, and some collecting of tweets where people admit to just finding out the Titanic was a real event and not a fictional story.
Meanwhile, i last night was technically unproductive (i'm looking at you, stuff all scattered across the floor, vacuum waiting by the dining table). I left work a bit early on the recognition that i'd been to a 7 am meeting and had slept poorly the night before. I ate the last of the carmel popcorn when i got home, and then I listened to hours of the Cadfael mystery The Pilgrim of Hate while continuing work on my little cardigan of laceweight alpaca.
post mortem: a process after something has happened to better understand the event and to take action based on the discoveries.
I switched to listening to a recording about post mortems at 7 pm. ("How many of you have been to a post mortem? ... How many of you have run a post mortem? ... How many of you have been yelled at during a post mortem? ...")
The post mortem talk was interesting and somewhat interesting, but not exactly useful. He described "fundamental surprises," where your world view is shocked into change, as being when a post mortem is useful (and then went to describe something that didn't seem to be a fundamental surprise at all).
( reflection )
The main thrust of the talk was to try and move folks away from thinking of a linear chain of technical events to a systems understanding. I am convinced that, indeed, the linear chain of causes is a poor way to understand how complicated systems behave, and i have no doubt that "emergent behavior" is the correct frame. Wikipedia's first quotation in describing the concept contrast emergence with resultant behavior. Resultant behavior is the sum of parts, a linear system. Emergent behavior is when the sum of parts is insufficient, a non-linear system, ie: mathematically chaotic.
So this speaker preached changing your frame from resultant (the kingdom was lost all for the want of a nail) to emergent (the kingdom was lost due to a complicated play of systems). What i didn't glean from the talk was particular tool kit for going forward, but i did bail out after an hour when Christine skyped me.
In other news, fried banana slices seem a reasonable way to consume overripe bananas. Christine left me with three bananas, all with black spots on the peel, and i prefer them on the green side to green. The caramelization seems to transmute the cloying taste of a ripe banana, and the warmth seems to make the mushiness acceptable to my palate.
I wonder about fried banana and egg.
Off to prepare for confronting the [stuff] and today's panic.
6:12 AM
colleague: Hi. Sorry to bug you first thing but I want to talk about [stuff]. is this the time to panic?
me: i haven't taken a sip of my tea yet. If this is a panic about the may install, i'd like to wait until 7:30 when i talk to [Sheffield colleague].
Of course, now i'm curious about the [stuff] but i still can focus on things like the xkcd comic that shows the depths of the planet, and some collecting of tweets where people admit to just finding out the Titanic was a real event and not a fictional story.
Meanwhile, i last night was technically unproductive (i'm looking at you, stuff all scattered across the floor, vacuum waiting by the dining table). I left work a bit early on the recognition that i'd been to a 7 am meeting and had slept poorly the night before. I ate the last of the carmel popcorn when i got home, and then I listened to hours of the Cadfael mystery The Pilgrim of Hate while continuing work on my little cardigan of laceweight alpaca.
post mortem: a process after something has happened to better understand the event and to take action based on the discoveries.
I switched to listening to a recording about post mortems at 7 pm. ("How many of you have been to a post mortem? ... How many of you have run a post mortem? ... How many of you have been yelled at during a post mortem? ...")
The post mortem talk was interesting and somewhat interesting, but not exactly useful. He described "fundamental surprises," where your world view is shocked into change, as being when a post mortem is useful (and then went to describe something that didn't seem to be a fundamental surprise at all).
( reflection )The main thrust of the talk was to try and move folks away from thinking of a linear chain of technical events to a systems understanding. I am convinced that, indeed, the linear chain of causes is a poor way to understand how complicated systems behave, and i have no doubt that "emergent behavior" is the correct frame. Wikipedia's first quotation in describing the concept contrast emergence with resultant behavior. Resultant behavior is the sum of parts, a linear system. Emergent behavior is when the sum of parts is insufficient, a non-linear system, ie: mathematically chaotic.
So this speaker preached changing your frame from resultant (the kingdom was lost all for the want of a nail) to emergent (the kingdom was lost due to a complicated play of systems). What i didn't glean from the talk was particular tool kit for going forward, but i did bail out after an hour when Christine skyped me.
In other news, fried banana slices seem a reasonable way to consume overripe bananas. Christine left me with three bananas, all with black spots on the peel, and i prefer them on the green side to green. The caramelization seems to transmute the cloying taste of a ripe banana, and the warmth seems to make the mushiness acceptable to my palate.
I wonder about fried banana and egg.
Off to prepare for confronting the [stuff] and today's panic.
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