How truth depends on the subject coming before the object — meaning before measurement.
The Order of Truth: Why Subject Comes Before Object
Tag: Quality
Minnesota’s Environmental Amendment: Harming the System with Good Intentions
During the 2024 election, Minnesotans voted on a state constitutional amendment called the Minnesota Continue to Provide Lottery Revenue to Environment and Natural Resources Fund Amendment. Its purpose is to extend the dedication of at least 40 percent of state lottery proceeds to the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund through December 31, 2050. The … Continue reading Minnesota’s Environmental Amendment: Harming the System with Good Intentions
Know Your Freedoms: Responsibility in Complex Systems
Every module within a complex system has to have a responsibility. In order to fulfill its responsibility, the module needs to have the freedom to fulfill it. These freedoms are scoped to what is needed to accomplish its responsibility.
Debt in Complex Systems
Debt is a process of consuming resources (sacrifices) from a system that hinders the system from fulfilling its responsibilities. If not removed, the debt will lead to the destruction of the system.
Original Sin – Oppression And Subversion with Good Intentions
Due to Adam and Eve eating the apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, we humans will forever inherit a sin. One aspect of this sin is that, through our good intentions, we inadvertently use oppression and subversion to solve problems or help others.
The Flow of Sacrifice – Sacrifices in a Complex System
A sacrifice is when an entity converts and/or gives up time and energy for consumption in order to produce a new quality. This is fundamental to our reality and is happening everywhere around you and in you. This is why sacrifices were so important to our ancient ancestors and should still be important to us today.
Power to Life, Power to Death – Power in Complex Systems
Power is relative change within a complex system. There are two types of power: Influencing change through responsibilities or forcing change through the usurping of responsibilities. The first leads to new qualities while the other leads to destruction.
Tyranny in Software Code
Tyranny is forcing concepts or actions at the wrong hierarchy of dependencies in a complex system. We have seen this over and over again in complex social systems, but this also takes place in complex software systems. Tyranny should be avoided in any system if that system is to endure the test of time.
Goals – Aiming for Subjective Value
Goals should be quality based. Since quality can't be measured, one will have to use techniques like nomological networks and human judgement to gage if one is achieving their goal.
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