2023/11/15

11:10

Target setting

Managing value gap between null outcome and stretch goal

Target setting

Managing value gap between null outcome and stretch goal

Set target somewhere between these two

Manage uncertainty

Manage space between null and stretch

Paradox of stretch goals

Why plan?

Plan

From Moser

Organization of ram and work

Estimate

Commitments

Is a plan a map or the territory

Map, I think

At a startup, the plan is close to the territory

As the plan moves further away from the territory, you begin to need models

One way to think of it

A plan is a compression of the action

As you need to compress more and more, you lose fidelity

Another thought

This territory is over time and people

History

We can find optimal way to do a job

Knowledge is more important than manual skill

Focused on time

Time is the fundamental measure of a job

Gantt Chart

Focused on the handoffs rather than the tasks

Laws of harmony in management

Harmony of choice

Harmony of doing

Harmony of (missed)

Used to design the Empire State Building

Line of balance

Thought of it as a marching band

This might be related to category theory

About relations (handoffs)

Projects as networks

Use of Bayes’ Theorem techniques for forecasting in ww2

Graph theory

Usually they focus on schedule

Two representations

Activity on node

Activity on arc

Arrows are functions

Critical path method

17:27

Power of design forum MIT MIT/MAD

Antikythera

The concept of climate change is environmental computing

HAIID

Human AI interaction design

Philosophy of technology

High energy vs low energy consumption societies

Climate community collaborative

Has written about markets and pricing

Spatial and temporal markets

Solo founder, it seems

Dr Ehrlich

Feels like efforts for climate change are so all over the place, only a few of them will matter in the long run

The problem of urgency vs diligence

Are we all actually talking about decarbonization?

Feels like the discussion of climate change here breaks out of this scope