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5th ties directly with the japanese 3 pwns — should I try to find a more STEMmy* way to rephrase them?

On 9C and 9D: the prussian model used to be that when taking strategic decisions, the most junior officers would make the first proposals, and then they'd go around the room and finish with the most senior officers. This has the advantage that it allows for early brainstorming, and trains the juniors to think in terms of bigger pictures than their direct responsibilities, yet doesn't lead to "vetoing" or "inversions" because everyone understands the early steps get things out on the table, the middle winnows down to the efficient frontier, and after the Old Man speaks, the decision has been made.

EDIT: eg, in "Dances With Wolves" most (all?) of the Sioux councils end with someone authoritative declaring "wašté"

* on my charitable-to-bigcorp-hires model of "founder mode", over the weekend I came up with a much more STEMmy description: the founder is probably used to early startup reports, who are high impedance low Lyapunov exponent (it takes a fair amount of effort to convince them what the right goal is, but after that you can leave them alone and they'll execute to that goal), but the bigcorp hire may well be low impedance high Lyapunov exponent (you can't leave them alone, but small nudges keep them on course). Does this make more sense than the livestock analogy?

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082349872349872OP1y ago

> Every member of a writing staff is on the hook for the education of the next person below them

speaks directly to development of Human Capital (as the rest of the Law speaks to the potential rapidity of its loss); oddly enough the showrunner agrees with the vice admiral: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41144977

(each on the hook for the education of the next is also a pattern in Jacobs' The Economy of Cities: when a city has added enough new export Know-how[0] to replace some of its old Know-how with imports, that is not only good for the city itself, but also provides the chance for some other, less developed[1], city to learn how to export these fresh imports — and so on down the line)

[0] forgive me for using the german word; it's three syllables shorter.

[1] we once had domestic textile factories; in my step-father's time we were exporting textile machinery to factories in the States; in my wife's student days the machines went to Turkey (as it was then) instead.

gradschoolfail1y ago

I wasnt sure if you’d agree with me that the ideology of meritocracy is at the heart of the issue.. K-H management may be the thread unifying Veblen vs Romer, but i dont think either has really nailed the (Midwestern postNietzsche “ascetic protestantism”) SIGINT aspect behind it all (veblen has stalked it with the evolutionary instincts tho, same for Orwell in 1984?)

(Thats how we get distracted from discussion of designori,strategy,tactics,DDJ,shamans?)

Lmk of any specific questions you might have

[PG is interesting as lowland scottish SIGINT is surprisingly far from the “norwegian” style of “rational inattention”, IMHO, with regards to secrecy esp.]

[one observes, not tangentially, of Veblen’s meandering elocution vs PG’s plain prose]

082349872349872OP1y ago

Meritocracy, in that founder:elect::hired help:preterite?

[TBV and PG are separated both by a century and by EMH]

Where does lowland scots come in? (I had thought this might refer to PG, due to "Bonnie Dundee", but ere Mons Meg and her marrows spake twa words or three, a few clicks leads to a background closer to the daffodil than the thistle: http://cdn.ans.org/about/presidents/docs/john-graham-nn-arti... )

EDIT: ah, there are ancestral links: mentions of kilts and an epigone "Ian Angus"...

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKoYT4febHM (2m50s)

EDIT2: heavily on one side of the ceremonial/instrumental spectrum, some very neo (2012) Edwardians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avuYx-rjXmk&t=34s (looks like the US Army got rid of "caissons", lyrically at least, in 1956, but here the RHA is still pulling them, in front of the limbers, in the XXI)

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0 points0823498723498721y ago0 comments

5th ties directly with the japanese 3 pwns — should I try to find a more STEMmy* way to rephrase them?

EDIT: eg, in "Dances With Wolves" most (all?) of the Sioux councils end with someone authoritative declaring "wašté"

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082349872349872OP1y ago

> Every member of a writing staff is on the hook for the education of the next person below them

[0] forgive me for using the german word; it's three syllables shorter.

gradschoolfail1y ago

(Thats how we get distracted from discussion of designori,strategy,tactics,DDJ,shamans?)

Lmk of any specific questions you might have

[PG is interesting as lowland scottish SIGINT is surprisingly far from the “norwegian” style of “rational inattention”, IMHO, with regards to secrecy esp.]

[one observes, not tangentially, of Veblen’s meandering elocution vs PG’s plain prose]

082349872349872OP1y ago

Meritocracy, in that founder:elect::hired help:preterite?

[TBV and PG are separated both by a century and by EMH]

EDIT: ah, there are ancestral links: mentions of kilts and an epigone "Ian Angus"...

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKoYT4febHM (2m50s)

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