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Alas,dair MacIntyre may have scared off some readers in the first few chapters of his After Virtue, with reason to not offend the simpletons, the dunces though addressed, as ‘they’. When after a while, the langauge becomes more simple, but the content no less valid. As in: It is of course that if social science … Continue reading “Some nuggets for social”
Quo vadis; society ..? This now has an answer: We’ll have a rehash of the 19-30s and -60s (/-70s) in one. When the 1%ers slash Military-Industrial Complex slash totalitarians claim to want unfettered market economies for all even when they pursue an absolute, complete Big Government / monopoly society, even pushing IoT for the purpose … Continue reading “The Sixties, rehashed ..?”
I.E., You Are Not In Control ! This, as a consequence of the ‘In Control’ definition. Where the controlling and ‘steering’ (what Steering Committees are about, if properly functioning … ) are the same. But as explained previously, such steering doesn’t happen (is impossible) already in a Mediocristan world its complexity, let alone the mix-in (to … Continue reading “You Don’t Call The Shots”
Is two distinct things, or a contradictio if taken as one. The ‘compliance’ thing is just rote checking of the implementation of all petty rules. The Certificate certification type. If I’d even need to say more… Some even claim that by repeated checks of implementation, ‘operating effectiveness’ would be established. Fools. The operating effectiveness can … Continue reading “"Compliance auditing"”
Once more reaching back to last Wednesday’s post: Opposing sides may have to recognise the very existence of the other one. When anti-bureaucracy force battle the eternal struggle against complacency et al., they better take into account that 60% of people (any mass), is of Type B, and hence will diligently work 9-to-5 and not … Continue reading “Cozy versus Anti-cozy”
Struck me while going through, near the finish, Graeber’s Utopia of Rules, that the fear for the Unknown What to be Feared that keeps so many captured in Bureaucratia and will defend it and stupidify themselves to such utter stooping levels just by being harrassed into Fear of Anything Else, is in the end a … Continue reading “Angst is not temporary”
This, re yesterday’s post that was in some vincinity (though with quite some distance to spare…) of ranting about bureaucratic stupidity being a pleonasm. By means of a pic, with: A Bureacrat certainly designed this. The ejection seat would to a bureaucrat mean the danger of you escaping from the post you were supposed to … Continue reading “Walking away from your desk”
When sports are considered to be character-forming for later (mostly assumed to be business-)life, either by having been trained to be competitive or have learned (really?) to cooperate in teams (really?), let’s see which versions there are: In which the You Against Natural science (No counter-actors other than nature, only personal performance counts, possibly measured … Continue reading “You sporting against all”
Because today is World Animal Day, let’s think of the Whale. Because this is the kind of disruption your brain needs. Today, and any day.Yes the clip is ‘Old’ — but still fresh; how’s that you Under-30-or-younger hunting faux headhunters that still, en masse (over 99,5% at least) hunt for dummies (car crashing kind) to … Continue reading “World Animal Day: a disruptive Whale”
[Warning: Longread] On the ails of the Basel-IV ORM proposals: 1. Unwarranted, certainly unscientific overreliance on ‘models’; 2. Modeling for prospective use in stead of hindsight understanding; 3. Too much top-down, not enough bottom-up; 4. No humans in the picture, hence the wrong and unactionable indicators. Introduction About all of the banking industry, and other financials in their wake, … Continue reading “ORM will not fly B-4 People are included”