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During a problem solving, an observation wa smade that a monitoring funciton had different behavior based on it being active or not. This was misleadign other stakeholders. On close look, there was a mistake found in setup. Before you take on the onservations as starting point, lead it back to the point where it is reasonable.

Mentioned by  Roam  founder Conor White-Sullivan.

Is there a name/thing for everything only because it changes something? For examle - temperature - so many things dont work above some temperature or below some temperature. if it was contant, then we wouldnt know of it or care about it? A thing defined as the absence of other - light/dark. sound/quiet

Safeware: System Safety and Computers 

solve problems no one has.  solutions for.

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career Reinventing your career in the time of coronavirus

How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs Of you are familiar with  Guy raz of How I built this , then this is not new to you. The stories inside the book bring alive the humans, their doubts, their trials and success. It has a memoir like quality to it.

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion                                       Image:semanticscholar Knowledge flow is in many tributaries.

Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking Into Breakthrough Growth Leaders - Do you have a clear vision for the post crisis future? Notable points from the HBR article: Inflections unfold faster Trendlines steeper Look beyond the dark horizon "They were guided — and guided their people in turn — by their vision for a better future, after those challenges had been overcome." FDR & Churchill and other leaders. "seeds of the next great growth industries are taking root now"

Physics from Finance: A gentle introduction to gauge theories, fundamental interactions and fiber bundles Jakob Schwichtenberg

Starling flocks are flying avalanches Other scale-free correlations are  Global ferromagmetism  activated by drop in temperature. ultracold atoms close in on stoner ferromagnetism modle proposed 90 years ago  - " In past experiments, it had been difficult to separate signals associated with ferromagnetic interactions from signals associated with the formation of molecular pairs."

False Dilemma  pits you in a binary situation. Yes or No.   Controlled Avalanches are done to ease the snow load .

The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving                                                      Image: stratechi

If you cant be home and have to feed fish. This is an automatic feeder, that dissolves and provides food for the fish for 14 days. It didnt work for all. great idea if it does. There are othr ones with timers and gizmos, but this has the nice "vacation" thing to it.

In the spirit of  thinking in different models , can you imagine this gobble-up food chain, pyramid as the square back. One way is formative/supporter/pillar/gobbled up direction, the other way is predator direction. For organizations, they have to keep moving up with time and heft, so as to avoid the fate of being in someones belly. Energy pyramid removes the guilt/virtue of the food chain pyramid. When it comes to organizations, see it as the Value pyramid.

Bill Knudsens business skills saved the US at the dawn of WWII

Creating popular products that people love with John fiorentino

The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from their Founding Entrepreneurs "A Must Read For Entreprenurs The Startup Playbook by David Kidder http://t.co/v9jQV19w3j #entrepreneur " — Money Mind Growth (@Mind_Mending) August 16, 2015

luggage is the worst hurt Away the-high-flying-travel-brand startup just furloughed half its employees pet care industry Sacks gloss  view of travel industry shows its networks like a individual variable diffrentiation making the others constant.

braces go subscription  ending in  caution

"The future of retail is omnichannel. Consumers don't live in isolation in any one medium" -  Scott Galloway Depending on various factors  customers are present on different channels for varying amounts of time.

Selling Naked: A Revolutionary Approach to Launching Your Brand Online Growth first companies get a leg up compared to traditional behemoths who have to deliver on earnings. Mastering digital marketing will show you things Hubble has learned like its better to have an actual picture of your product in social media that leads customers to your site than stock images. The book is around the frame of how to convince your boss to shift to selling naked. Companies covered -  Andie swim bathing suit Pair eyewear

Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life

Relentless Innovation: What Works, What Doesn’t--And What That Means For Your Business 

Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble identify three central challenges:  1. Forgetting yesterday's successful processes and practices;  2. Borrowing selected resources from the core business; and  3. Learning how the new business can succeed.

When a company shows you their numbers, you want to know the industry averages, so you can place them on the spectrum. Best Practices in Liability Management Loyalty points breakage

When you think of  a system, you think of all the inputs that can modify the behavior of the system. When you have such a picture, it gets very easy to see if the organization has the change elements you want to happen. If you dont find traces of it, then you know you have to make new pathways for the change to happen. Is it a parallel conduit that needs to be added?

Have you read Gift of the Magi  story? What happens in a Hobbesian world? Depends if the general mood is discord or harmony. Lets say Della has short hair to  begin with. She might grow her hair thinking Jim might buy her The Combs. If The Combs are really pretty, then you should want to grow your hair? You can fill the rest for Jim, but you get the idea. Making the models yours How do you make a Model yours? Whats your favorite model? Can one do the work of the other? For example if you have a linear flow A -->B--->C---> D Can you phrase it in the form of D<--C         ^         | A-->B In this format, will you be more inclined to think of the Pythogorus and see of you can jump from A to C directly? Can you reimagine your theory in a different model?  Maslow's hierarchy of needs Its like the icing is on the top of the cupcake. But everyone knows that the way to eat a...

Factorio is a game where you use automation to grow.

Collapse of Complex Societies 1ed (New Studies in Archaeology) by Dr Joseph Tainter complexity structure - uniform or differentiation organization needed? "complexity simplifies and regularises" What about the capability factor? Hitting the limits i.e Lets say huge section sof stadiums and restroom overflow. Is one section cordoned off from the other atleast by design. Like how it happens in the flights, where if you dont have one available, only then you go to the farther one. Rise Can rise be seen as  scale-free correlations  ," formations that most closely resemble  criticality  in their characteristics, this being the exact point at which systems stand on the brink of a radical transformation, such as water becoming ice or snow turning to avalanche. "

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn "If what you are working on is not important and not likely to lead to important things, then why are you working on it?" -Richard Hamming in one of my favorite passages from The Art and Science of Engineering: Learning to Learn pic.twitter.com/vFNZlWwCS9 — Sean DeLaney (@SeanDeLaney23) April 22, 2020

Airline subscription model

Connected Stadiums Giants revenue

shoe sales  peak over Thanskgicing, least at the beginning of the year. Next lower high is in August, right around back to school and Spring break?

Cicsco's revenues from alliance have been $5bn once. Partner or Perish

Another observation about a good shoe repair shop: their entire business model is based on keeping your shoes intact and looking good for as long as possible...NOT convincing you to buy something new. It might be the most purely pro-consumer industry still in existence. — Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) March 8, 2020 What are other industries that wont try to sell you new things? A Torrance baseball glove repair shop has custoemrs all over the country

Look no further than the most  fragmented industries . All the industries that follow social distancing drive-in movie theatre turned to church services. Consolidating bsiness - Watches,  Jewelry

Are you a fan of the  endless aisle ?

Consider a Spherical Cow: A course in environmental problem solving spherical cow

It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose The legacy of Herb Kelleher, cofounder of Southwest Airlines

How Nations Learn: Technological Learning, Industrial Policy, and Catch-up

The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market Operational Excellence Product Leader