David Chapman: What they don’t teach you at STEM school. What they do teach you at STEM school is how to think and act within rational systems. What they mostly don’t teach you is how to evaluate, choose, combine, modify, discover, or create systems. (systems thinking) (more)

Free tool/course from Cedric Chin for XmR charts. https://xmrit.com/ (more)

Donald J. Wheeler is an American author, statistician and expert in quality control.[1][2] Wheeler graduated from the University of Texas in 1966 and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Southern Methodist University. From 1970 to 1982 he taught in the Statistics Department at the University of Tennessee, where he was an associate professor. Since 1982 he has worked as a consultant. He is the author of 22 textbooks. His books have been translated into five languages and are in use in over 40 countries. He has been invited to contribute to two state-of-the-art anthologies, and has had articles published in 16 refereed journals. He is a fellow of both the American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality. He was awarded the 2010 Deming Medal by the American Society for Quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Wheeler

approach to optimizing product quality, cf quality control

approach to optimizing product quality, cf quality assurance

Sasha Chapin: Your Intelligent, Conscientious In-group Has Bad Social Norms Too. I’ve noticed that a significant number of my friends in the Rationalist and Effective Altruist communities seem to stumble into pits of despair, generally when they structure their lives too rigidly around the in-group’s principles. Like, the Rationalists become miserable by trying to govern their entire lives through nothing but rationality, and the EAs feel bad by holding themselves to an impossible standard of ethics. (more)

Cedric Chin: What To Think When Looking at a Chart. ...one question that I've had over the course of this series is: if understanding variation is so important and process behaviour charts are so good at helping you understand variation in your data, why aren't they more widely used? And I think I have a partial answer: (more)

Rival Voices: Fuck it, we ball: on rats, postrats, metarats, nrx what distinguishes and generated them. As some of you know I’ve recently (yesterday) had a small spat with the putanumonit guy. (more)

Cedric Chin: Process Behaviour Charts: More Than You Need To Know. This week’s Commoncog post is for members only; next week’s post will be free. Process Behaviour Charts: More Than You Need To Know (members only) — We last talked about process behaviour charts in Part Two of the Becoming Data Driven in Business Series. In that piece, I introduced the idea from Statistical Process Control (SPC) that the way to become data driven is to first understand variation, and the secret weapon that SPC practitioners have is the process behaviour chart (more)

David Chapman on Countercultures: modernity’s last gasp. The countercultural mode of the 1960s-80s marked the final attempts to rescue the glory of systems from the maw of nihilistic collapse. It failed, and we live in its wreckage. (more)

David Chapman: How To Think Real Good. Thinking about thinking: I enjoy thinking about thinking. That’s one reason I spent a dozen years in artificial intelligence research. To make a computer think, you’d need to understand how you think. So AI research is a way of thinking about thinking that forces you to be specific (more)

Scott Alexander: A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures. David Chapman’s (2015-05-29) Chapman Geeks MOPs And Sociopaths In Subculture Evolution is rightfully a classic, but it doesn’t match my own experience. Either through good luck or poor observational skills, I’ve never seen a lot of sociopath takeovers. Instead, I’ve seen a gradual process of declining asabiyyah (more)

Rival Voices Tweet: LessWrong is structurallly analytic, you see? It suffers from the same problems which is why it leads to meaninglessness. Now, TPOT is littered with post-rats, ex-rationalists from LessWrong, that reached stage 4.5 (more)

Post-Rationalism, Post-Rationalist. (more)

"Meaningness" https://meaningness.com/ and Fluid Mode writer

Late modernity (or liquid modernity) is the characterization of today's highly developed global societies as the continuation (or development) of modernity rather than as an element of the succeeding era known as postmodernity, or the postmodern.[citation needed] Introduced as "liquid" modernity by the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, late modernity is marked by the global capitalist economies with their increasing privatization of services and by the information revolution.[1] Among its characteristics is that some traits, which in previous generations were assigned to individuals by the community, are instead self-assigned individually and can be changed at will.[2] As a result, people feel insecure about their identities and their places in society, and they feel anxious and distrustful about whether their self-proclaimed traits are being respected.[2] Society as a whole feels more chaotic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_modernity

business strategy book by Richard Rumelt; followed by The Crux (more)

Attitude expressed by Robert Anton Wilson. (more)

Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina, meaning "teaching, instruction") is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the essence of teachings in a given branch of knowledge or in a belief system. The etymological Greek analogue is "catechism".[1] Often the word doctrine specifically suggests a body of religious principles as promulgated by a church. Doctrine may also refer to a principle of law, in the common-law traditions, established through a history of past decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine framework? first principles? pattern language?

A Wardley map is a map of the structure of a business or service, mapping the components needed to serve the customer or user. Wardley maps are named after Simon Wardley who claims that he created the technique at Fotango in 2005 having created the evolutionary framing the previous year.[1][third-party source needed][2] The technique was further developed within Canonical UK between 2008 and 2010[3][third-party source needed] and components of mapping can be found in the "Better For Less" paper published in 2010... Each component in a Wardley map is classified by the value it has to the customer or user and by the maturity of that component, ranging from custom-made to commodity. Components are drawn as nodes on a graph with value on the y-axis and commodity on the x-axis. A custom-made component with no direct value to the user would sit at the bottom-left of such a graph while a commodity component with high direct value to the user would sit at the top-right of such a graph. Components are connected on the graph with edges showing that they are linked... Much of the theory of Wardley mapping is set out in a series of nineteen blog posts written by Wardley[5] and a dedicated wiki called Wardleypedia.[6] As use of the technique has broadened to new institutions and been used to map new things the application of the technique in practice has drifted from the original vision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardley_map (more)