X : Are there more stages of evolution on a map?
Me : Not that I found. It took six months of solid work, over 9k publications collect to find the four. This is what went into the cheat sheet. Why?
X : I think there are more.
Me : There might be.
X : What do you think to ...
Me : ... what do I think to? You're not going to just tell me you've named five? Can I repeat the bit about spending six months, working day and night, to build a case for four? Do you have any idea how much effort went into finding these labels?
Me : The collection of publications, the failed experiments with diffusion curves and other models, the frequency analysis of weak signals, the building of the graph between ubiquity and certainty?
X : Touchy?
Me : Well, at least try and put a bit more effort and justification into it. Go beyond the "I think there are more stages and here are some labels I made"
X : Well, I think there is a fifth stage where things die off.
Me : You do realise that vastly more things die off in genesis than ever make it to commodity? What tends to happen in commodity is things become abstracted away, they become invisible, hidden in other things.
X : Commodity is where the laggards are.
Me : Ok, now you're confusing diffusion with evolution. Viruses diffuse, they also evolve. It's not the same. Cloud is a more commodity form of compute than servers, back in 2006 the early adopters were using the more commodity form.

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24 Nov
X : What's the most important thing to do with mapping.
Me : Practice i.e. practice putting your assumptions down, sharing with others and listening to challenge.
X : There must be some theory on how to ...
Me : Theory? Maps is all practice, observation and patterns ...
Me : ... it was born from practice, observation and patterns and it still remains as such today. We're a long long way from a theory of maps.
X : Some maps look quite theoretical.
Me : "theoretical" in the sense that "this map is being used to show a pattern I don't like and hence I'm not going to listen nor accept the challenge but instead dismiss this observation based upon my belief" ... you need to practice more.
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22 Nov
X : Is there an official place to learn Wardley Mapping?
Me : No. There are different "dojos" i.e. GCATI dojo, Learn Wardley Mapping dojo ... etc. There is no "official" school or singular point that defines proficiency and nor should there ever be.
X : But GCATI does certification.
Me : Yes, it does. Certificates in the GCATI way of doing Wardley Mapping. Others might also produce certificates (consider them like belts) in their way of doing Wardley Mapping.
X : How do you ensure consistency?
Me : As the field develops people will move (and along with them knowledge) between different schools. The only measure of consistency is through competitions, things like battle camp.
X : So, which one do you bless?
Me : None and all. I have no interest in creating a cult.
Read 4 tweets
19 Nov
Oh dear, a black dog day. Where did that come from?

Waves of self pitying loathing, questioning self worth ... how I've wasted my life, done nothing, achieved nothing ... time to go chop logs with force.

The slog of unpicking irrational thoughts with rational observations ...
... the same mechanism which drives my questioning that I find so useful in day to day life occassionally goes into an irrational overdrive for no reason I have ever been able to discern. I just calm myself with awareness that it is doing this and treat it as some form of reset.
The process of reset ... that mix of physical exercise, the use of quiet observation and reflection to challenge this emergent inner self that is the worst of conspiracy theorists ... a familiar path. For now ...
Read 5 tweets
18 Nov
China's Baidu is Now the World's Largest Robotaxi Operator After Completing 115,000 Fully-Autonomous Rides in Q3 - futurecar.com/5008/Chinas-Ba…
Meanwhile in the UK -> HS2 rail extension to Leeds scrapped amid promise to transform rail - bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
X : I don't get the connection?
Me : China has 38k+ km of high speed rail in operation (with 37k km in construction) at speeds of upto 350 km/h ... we are ... behind, even on a per capita basis.

See also AI, Space, Robotics, Genetics ... long list.
Read 7 tweets
16 Nov
X : Have you heard what is happening in cricket?
Me : Riddled with racism?
X : Yes
Me : ... and sexism, homophobia, islamaphobia, nationalism?
X : ...
Me : I don't have any interest in watching private schoolboys pretending they are superior to everyone. They should just ban it.
We already have a national sport in football, one that we can be proud of where people stand up for what is right and take the knee when it matters.
X : You don't like cricket?
Me : English cricket? No. I don't like it.
X : Rugby?
Me : It's less class ridden than it used to be which means you get a better quality of supporter and player.
X : You really don't like private schools?
Me : I find them offensive.
Read 6 tweets
31 Oct
X : Did you see ...
Me : ... is this a COP26 thing?
X : Yes.
Me : I don't worry about climate change.
X : Do nothing?
Me : Quite the opposite. I think we should be having those discussions on who we can save.
X : You've lost me.
Me : My 2013 post - blog.gardeviance.org/2013/04/why-i-…
X : You don't think the 1.5 degree ...
Me : ... no hope. There will be lots of nice words, as Greta said - "blah, blah, blah" ... but we're not going to take the actions we need, we're not even going to discuss limiting consumption. I'd rather discuss future plans, who to save.
X : I suppose you have views on that?
Me : Of course, we need some form of lottery system but we also need to exclude the wealthiest 1% ... they caused most of the problems, we need to cut off their escape routes.
X : That'll never happen.
Me : Not in the West. But China might.
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