Jesse Singal: When Children Say They’re Trans (Sex and Gender). Claire, who was 12 at the time, also felt uncomfortable in her body in a way she couldn’t quite describe. She acknowledged that part of it had to do with puberty, but she felt it was more than the usual preteen woes. “At first, I started eating less,” she said, “but that didn’t really help.” (more)

see Opportunity-Solution Tree

Today is my 20-Year WikiLog-iversary - going back to 2002-02-05-a. (more)

I have an ongoing interest in healthcare. (more)

another frame of Industrial Engineering, Systems Thinking; cf Engineering Management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_management

cf Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Cybernetics, Management Engineering, Systems Thinking

aka Operations Research (not exactly the same, but...) (another variety of Systems Thinking)

In politics, regulatory capture (also called agency capture) is a form of corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity, policymaker, or regulator is co-opted to serve the commercial, ideological, or political interests of a minor constituency, such as a particular geographic area, industry, profession, or ideological group.[1][2] When regulatory capture occurs, a special interest is prioritized over the general interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society. The theory of client politics is related to that of rent-seeking and political failure; client politics "occurs when most or all of the benefits of a program go to some single, reasonably small interest (e.g., industry, profession, or locality) but most or all of the costs will be borne by a large number of people (for example, all taxpayers)"... For public choice theoryists, regulatory capture occurs because groups or individuals with high-stakes interests in the outcome of policy or regulatory decisions can be expected to focus their resources and energies to gain the policy outcomes they prefer, while members of the public, each with only a tiny individual stake in the outcome, will ignore it altogether. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

like regulatory capture, but for journalists... (more)

Jason Cohen: The "Great" Product Manager, a.k.a. the Impossible Product Manager. According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No. But don’t worry, there’s a better answer. (more)

eater of meat and veggies - see Omnivore's Dilemma (more)

hosting service for WordPress, founded by Jason Cohen - https://wpengine.com/

All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful... sometimes (more)

The word model is used in various contexts meaning something (abstract or physical) that represents "the Real World". That entity may be anything from a single item or object (for example, a bolt) to a complete system of any size (for example, the Solar System). In general, a model is an object which we study, not for its intrinsic interest, but because it is a formalized or simplified representation of a class of phenomena which can be studied easily... Typically a model will contain only the significant features or aspects of the item in question, and two models of the same item may differ quite significantly. This may be due to differing requirements of the model's end user (one user may be interested in aspects of the item which are quite separate from those of another user) or, perhaps more simply, this may be due to the difference in perception of that item by the modeller and decisions made during the modelling process. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model (more)

My summer job for 4 years of college. https://www.flodynecontrols.com/ (more)

I worked NASA's Kennedy Space Center for a few months (roughly Sept84-Jan85), as a consultant employed by Science Management, working for the Center's logistics contractor (they ran the warehouses, security, fire stations, etc.). (more)

The Regulatory Cathedral and the Bazaar. Yochai Benkler ponders the death of the newspaper: Critics of online media raise concerns about the ease with which gossip and unsubstantiated claims can be propagated on the Net.... It was precisely this respect and authority that made The New York Times’ reporting on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so instrumental in legitimating the lies that the Bush administration used to lead this country to war. (more)

Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers. ..every spare hour has been poured into a venture I started providing event and ticket management services for comics. It’s been relatively successful with tens of thousands of tickets sold (more)

Electronic Music generated by computer algorithm: music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by a system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music (more)

The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters. How much do parents matter? (more)