Navigating Fourth Industrial Talking Heads

Half-way through university, I ran out of money to go to university. So, I did what anyone in my position would do: parleyed my co-op job into a full-time job and started going to university part-time. The benefit of going to university part-time was that I got to leverage my Professors as consultants.

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDBq-OU1rHo

Anytime I’d have a challenge at work, I’d ask my Professors for the answer. Often times they didn’t know the answer, but maybe I think they didn’t know the answer because I didn’t have the ability to enact their advice!? :P

If people don’t do what you tell them, put a gun to their head. If they can do what you tell them after you threaten them, you have a motivation problem. If they can’t do what you tell them after you threaten them, you have a training problem1.

So here’s a crash course in business so you can separate language from thoughts like Wittgenstein.

Leveraging The Difference between What You Can Control vs. What You Can’t ControlLeveraging The Difference between What You Can Control vs. What You Can’t Control


Scan these and ask your heart if they are sound.

How Might We Determine Optimal Gameplay?

The Netflix Map by Simon Wardley

The Iron Triangle of Project Management

Patterns of Conflict (Boyd)

📎 The Source of Value

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This is a thought experiment.