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25 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Why do I automatically think ... "I bet in the UK we've spent £100M buying ten world class versions from some minister's chum that were never delivered" ->
X : Apollo 13?
Me : Ah, that'll be the logic. An all expenses trip into space for some very expensive management consultants to manufacture ten of them based upon ... "we saw it in this film called Apollo" ... hence also the need to cut £20 from the poorest and universal credit.
I sometimes feel like I'm living in a live episode of only fools and horses in which Del Boy is now Prime Minister, Rodney's in charge of the treasury and Boycie manages procurement.
Boris "Del Boy" Johnson
Rishi "Rodders" Sunak
Gavin "Trigger" Williamson
Priti "Marlene" Patel
Michael "Boycie" Gove
Grant "Denzil" Shapps
Elizabeth "Mickey" Truss
Rees "Grandad" Mogg

... oh, it all makes sense now.

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26 Jan
X : Are you interested in container technology?
Me : No. I'm interested in the practices that emerge from industrialiation of technology. It's the practice that actually define the future, not the technology.
X : So, what are you interesting in?
Me : ... long list ...
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2. DISTRIBUTED AND INDIRECT LEARNING

3. DISTRIBUTION OF PROVISION (not power but provision)

4. ACCEPTANCE OF STANDARDS (identification and adoption of)

5. INCENTIVES & FUNDING MODELS (worth based / outcome based models)
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8. FOCUS ON PRINCIPLES (over beliefs)

9. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

10. IMMERSION
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26 Jan
To gauge the maturity of an organisation, use the doctrine table Image
To gauge how evolved a component is within the value chain, use the cheat sheet Image
Obviously, the cheat sheet isn't relevant to organisations that haven't matured enough to understand their users, user needs, the details (value chain) nor understand what is being considered (how evolved the components are) i.e. all those phase I basics of doctrine.
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X ; Do you think the US can compete with China?
Me : It can outcompete but it's a long path.
X : Have you written that playbook?
Me : In notes, I need to find time to write it all out. I'm a bit busy. I'll tell you where to start though - social inequality at home.
X : How are those connected?
Me : In many ways but it'll take me time to write out the path because I have to explain some basics. It'll become clear then, just wait.
X : How long?
Me : Four or five months? It's a long path, so there's no rush and as I said I'm a bit busy.
X : What do you think Biden should do?
Me : It is irrelevant what I think. They will do whatever they've planned to do, this would have been decided many months ago. We will get to see their plans over the next 100 days.
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The party of Trump (formerly known as GOP) is caught in the symbolism, mythology, rituals and rites of passage of a Cult. It will need to be demolished if GOP (rather than the cult) can ever rise again.
However, along with that, you will need to create support structures. You are also talking about people who are victims of the largest cult the US has ever faced, who don't even realise they are trapped by this.
Think ... "people in cults are not crazy but are the same intelligent, creative and interesting individuals they were before. As with falling in love they are just crazy about the group, its amazing leader and its great potential to change the world and them with it" ...
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24 Jan
Interesting, the idea of different roles in managing the decline ->
My only comment is that the Town Planners should either be turning it into a utility or outsourcing it to someone else who provides it as a utility. So, I see this as potentially different i.e. "what to do if you've failed to manage it" ... let me modify @KateRaworth cycle.
Now, I know that path, the path of failing to manage evolution is very common and many companies are caught with that.
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X : Why do you keep on saying learn from China?
Me : They use much more context aware techniques when it comes to the economy.
X : No, over covid.
Me : You're kidding? Ok ...
... China has used test, test, test and isolate to co-orindate lockdowns and used tried and tested techniques to build vaccines which attack multiple targets?
X : And?
Me : We've fskced up, no effective test and isolate and we're using experimental vaccines.
X : This is because they can, being an authoritarian state.
Me : You mean "This is because they can, being a competent state". The issues are competence and leadership. China is cheating by having some.
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