an air-purifying respirator, in which respirable air is obtained by filtering a contaminated atmosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirator (more)

Literate Programming is a phrase coined by Donald Knuth to describe the approach of developing (more)

Robert Horn's perspectives... (though his essays don't seem to follow his own guidelines...) This seems particular appropriate to Wiki and OutLining, plus other forms of HyperText. But note that his focus/Context is on relatively "stable" information, as opposed to the process of Writing/thinking collaboratively. (more)

(page was renamed from Why Keep A Notebook) (more)

Writing Dashboards | Documentation | Steampipe. A Steampipe dashboard uses a combination of HCL and SQL to visualize data in a variety of ways. This dashboards as code approach makes it easy to create and combine charts and tables, style them, and make them interactive. Use your favorite text editor, receive immediate feedback as you type, and manage your dashboards on GitHub with all your other code artifacts. (more)

category of writing artifact, typically about how to use a piece of software

problem-solving with multiple interrelated obstacles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_solving#Characteristics_of_complex_problems (or is that really "complicated" not necessarily "complex"? see Cynefin) (more)

messy but not complex? see Cynefin

The Cynefin framework (/kəˈnɛvɪn/ kuh-NEV-in)[1] is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making.[2] Created in 1999 by Dave Snowden when he worked for IBM Global Services, it has been described as a "sense-making device".[3][4] Cynefin is a Welsh word for habitat.[5] Cynefin offers five decision-making contexts or "domains"—'clear' (known as 'simple' until 2014, then 'obvious' until being recently renamed),[6] 'complicated', 'complex', 'chaotic', and 'confusion'—that help managers to identify how they perceive situations and make sense of their own and other people's behaviour.[a] The framework draws on research into systems theory, complexity theory, network theory and learning theorys.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin (more)

Jorge Aranda notes A critique from Alistair Cockburn on how the Agile Software Development movement is under attack from Taylorism led me to an essay by Dave West on the philosophical incompatibilities between Lean Development and agile techniques, and this in turn led me to finally give a read to Peter Naur’s 1985 text, “Programming as Theory Building.” (Naur Programming as Theory Building) Naur’s programmer’s theories are essentially Mental Models in the sense I (and many others before me) present them, and both he and I claim that the overarching goal of a software development organization is to build those models (or theories) during the life of the project. I could actually restate my thesis contributions as extensions to Naur’s sketch in two ways: first, I explore what I think is the main challenge that software team members find today: to build consistent mental models (or in the terms of the thesis, to develop a shared understanding (Shared Language)) of the world, among potentially large groups of people, in the face of abundant, shifting, and tacit information, and unclear or exploratory goals. Second, I outline some attributes of team interaction (Team Work) that make such a challenge easier to overcome. (more)

A general manifesto (Agile Manifesto) for "just-enough-process" Software Development methods. (more)

Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵), born Shinmen Takezō (新免 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645),[1] also known as Miyamoto Bennosuke and by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku,[2] was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai). Musashi is considered a kensei (sword saint) of Japan.[3] He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū, or Nito Ichi-ryū, style of swordsmanship, and in his final years authored The Book of Five Rings (五輪の書, Go Rin No Sho) and Dokkōdō (獨行道, The Path of Aloneness). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi

being held responsible of the lifecycle from Planning to Status Report (more)

phrase from Dan Davies' Unaccountability Machine: The communication between the decision-maker and the decided-upon has been broken – they have created a handy sink into which negative feedback can be poured without any danger of it affecting anything. Can lead to pathological organization?

The Unaccountability Machine — why do big systems make bad decisions? Waiting to board a flight recently... A fellow passenger had been refused boarding and was pleading with the airline attendant. The attendant was obviously sympathetic — but it was down to company policy. We were witnessing what Dan Davies calls an “accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates decision-making to a rule book rather than an identifiable individual. If something goes wrong, no one is held to account. (more)

Brad DeLong: A Return of "Management Cybernetics" as a Way Forward Out of Economics-Based Neoliberalism? I signed up to write an 800-word review of Dan Davies’s brand-new The Unaccountability Machine. (2024-07-04-DelongHowHumanityLostControl) (more)

Classic sci-fi author

Yiddish (ייִדיש‎, יידיש‎ or אידיש‎, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit. 'Jewish'; ייִדיש-טײַטש‎, historically also Yidish-Taytsh, lit. 'Judeo-German')[10] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews (Judaism). It originated in 9th century[11]: 2  Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages.[12][13][14] Yiddish has traditionally been written using the Hebrew alphabet. Prior to World War II, there were 11–13 million speakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish

book by Maggie Bullock ISBN:0063042649 about J. Crew (more)

MicroTask market (more)