Category Archives: Strategy

21-Jump

Uphill

A man walks upright.

For him it is strenuous to climb a steep hill, because he has to keep pushing his own vertical mass upward and cannot gain any momentum.

The rabbit is better off. His forelegs support his horizontal body and the great back legs do the work. They are more than equal to thrusting uphill the light mass in front of them. Rabbits can go fast uphill. In fact, they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward, and sometimes, in flight down a steep place, they may actually go head over heels.

On the other hand, the man is five or six feet above the hillside and can see all round. To him the ground may be steep and rough but on the whole it is even, and he can pick his direction easily from the top of his moving, six-foot tower.

Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams

12-Pomo

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Kitchen Timer

STORY ELEMENTS

Character
Setting
Problem
Solution
Lesson

20-Tick

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Daylight

Change the clock twice a year, or else some places will need to adjust their operating hours.

Going back to permanent Standard Hours has been tried before, and failed after two years.

What is the issue about the light & night that we keep forgetting?

07-Lift

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Airborne

Never sleep when you can float
Never float when you can sit
Never sit when you can stand
Never stand when you can walk
Never walk when you can run
Never run when you can fly

Wink instead of nodding. Nod instead of whispering. Whisper instead of speaking. Speak instead of writing. Write instead of brain exploding.

06-Lyrs

Complexity

This image was once used to illustrate the subject areas for our WordPress-Cupertino Meetup group. Its many Layers of Complexity, before full-site editing (FSE), was introduced in version 5.

Now, knowledge of such complexity need not bother the minds of today. Intelligence has been made artificial.

04-Musk

SpaceX

Psychological safety is the enemy of urgency, progress, orbital velocity.
Musk’s preferred buzzword is hardcore.
Discomfort is a good thing, a weapon against the scourge of complacency.
Vacations, work-life balance, days of mental rest, are not his thing. Let that sink in.

No other natural substance has such a complex aroma associated with so many contradictory descriptions; however, it is usually described abstractly as animalistic, earthy and woody or something akin to the odor of baby’s skin.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk

23-Dice

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well.

They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness & power & beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier for them to see that something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow.

When the world was in darkness & wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it.

But when the world became bright with reason & riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.

Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they – this garden Earth, civilized & knowing, to be torn apart again that Man might hope again in wretched darkness.

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

18-Alim