The general idea I’m groping towards is connecting project management, OODA loops, network effects, and potential fields in a useful way to try and get at why project management both sucks as a task, and if done poorly ends up doing more harm than good.
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This is too unwieldy to write up as an essay. Might work better as a slide talk. 🤔
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Hard to tell if anyone besides me is interested in this particular headspace. People liking/RTing these threads don’t fall into any obvious pattern, so not sure where this belongs socially. Somewhere between potential theory, productivity, complex systems, conflict theory.
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Ah shit figured it out. I’ve basically been coming at the next chapter of my book from behind without realizing it). This *is* the anatomy of what I call the index level of a temporality. studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-clockles
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Ahhh, I've also been circling Andy Grove's line "first let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos" for a while on a parallel track. This is kinda the how-to thread sequence. First search hit is from 2016!
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"First let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos" (Andy Grove) applies to how you manage your own brain too.
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Then in 2017. Twitter search is great for doing detective work on your brain, it's better than therapy. It's like longitudinal protocol analysis.
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"First let chaos reign" [me]
[/me] "Rein in the chaos"
Been on the edge of chaos for almost a year now
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In May 2020, here I am actually declaring an intention to develop a management model based on the quote.
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Trying to develop a management model inspired by the internet
Andy Grove: First, let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos
Internet: First let chaos reign, then... ooh squirrel
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Passing mention in a thread on media of management that I'd forgotten I'd done
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None of the 3 vertices is stable. You kinda have to rotate through them. Generalization of Andy Grove line "first let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos." Just a 3-way version.
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And 5 days ago, I have a joke about it :D
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First let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos… THEN LET’S RAIN CHAOS!
How come Andy Grove didn’t think of the last part?
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Hmm. Should I call this whole theory Chaos Rain Theory? CRT?
Is the namespace collision with critical race theory, cathode ray tube etc. funny or distracting?
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