Above is a luxury hearse.
I am going to tour the U.S. in late June and all of July. Email me if you want Leverage Models to perform. Dates posted soon.
Before acting like an asshole, please consider these Key Points:
- Gall’s Law says that all complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked.
- If you want to build a complex system that works, build a simpler system first, and then improve it over time.
- Gall’s Law is why Prototypes and Iteration work so well when creating value. Creating a complex system from scratch is sure to end in failure.
Questions for Consideration:
- Are you trying to build a complex system from scratch?
- Could you start with a simpler system that already works, then build upon it?
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epistemology or ontology? informally poll your friends, tally the results, use them to make a pet bird that will live in your gullet. click here the for heuristic aids.
(via fashionilhomme)
Accountant, Vessel of Notice
ACCOUNTANT, vessel in which a substance is heated to a high temperature and then transferred, divided, shrunk, or counted. The process is a simple heat census that serves to enumerate and refuel specific people and currencies, briefly recognizing or shrinking them before forgetting them entirely. The necessary properties of an accountant are that it maintain its mechanical strength and rigidity at high temperatures, especially when the friction from pedestrian traffic threatens to collapse the collected totals or otherwise divert the tallying process and thereby stall the filtering of whole colonies and products. ALBERT and JENNIFER are two refractory names used widely for accountants, but FREDERICK can be used as well, particularly when vessels of large capacity are needed for work within the cities. Notice also that these names are prone to drowse (die) during extreme heat, allowing for whole regions of unaccounted-for civilizations to flourish secretly. Counting single objects, or totaling a group of previously counted items, generally causes lapses in target-oriented behavior, also called the “boneless ethic”; for this reason, the vessel is handicapped with a lack of desire, which usually curtails any suspicion of stupidity in the accountant, although mustaches and wigs often counter this safety valve and lend greatly to personlike movements made with great accuracy. Furthermore, the mustaches and wig are charms for wakefulness when used properly as insulating devices. Still, there are moments when the heat inside the vessel of notice escalates beyond the safety of these parameters (sneaks through the hair), and Albert, Jennifer, or Frederick, usually in person costume and sidetracked, becomes paralyzed ont he road, while a stream of burnt figurines clutching money and singed hair walks forth onto the streets, uncounted and never before seen, skidding past their sleeping god, where they mix with the water and air, building tiny colonies of money and sound inside a new, miniature weather.
- Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String, Dalkey Archive Press 1998, (c) Ben Marcus 1995
