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18 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
X : What machine do you use?
Me : For what?
X : PC?
Me : Fairly bog standard ... tower case, i9-10900K, 32Gb RAM, 1TB SSD, RTX 3070ti, liquid cooled, dual nics etc. It does everything I need it to. I like fiddling with machines so I build myself a new rig every few years.
X : So you built it?
Me : Bizarrely, this was a base unit that I just upgraded a few things on. I didn't have much time, I needed to build the wee lad a gaming machine.
X : What's the specs on that?
Me : Stonking. It's a beast.
X : Any advice on building a PC?
Me : Don't. Especially not now ... components can be difficult to get.
X : What's the performance like?
Me : On what? My machine. Well, right now I have a few apps open and the browser ... so I'm barely using anything. It's a good enough machine. Image
X : How do you get components?
Me : I was lucky. Right now, I can't imagine it will be easy. Seriously, I would wait for a bit.

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20 Dec
X : What is web 3.0?
Me : A set of worthwhile experiments being tightly coupled to specific forms of crypto for reasons of greed leading to a dystopian society of excessive control and inequality through decentralisation and "choice" that most will be excluded from.
X : I thought Web 3.0 was semantic web?
Me : Did you really expect it to be called "More economic slavery for the masses","Neoliberalism a gogo" or "Our next business model is your children"? Web 3.0 gives it more "legitimacy". Tim BL talked about Web 3.0 and so it must be good.
X : The term has been co-opted?
Me : Yep and bundled with a healthy dose of crypto and greed. I would consider the term toxic despite any worthwhile experiments and noble intentions.
X : Will it succeed though?
Me : Will the pursuit of greed lead society along horrendous paths?
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20 Dec
Tree is up and decorated, presents bought and wrapped, logs chopped, ... all the basics done. Today, some "me" time - hmmm, modding Skyrim. Oh, look a new update AE ... OMG, WTF, are they trying to kill off the modding community again just to force some creation club content?
One of these days, there will be a gaming company that doesn't try to regularly kill off its modding community in order to peddle some crap for a bit of extra cash but instead takes a radical approach of working with the community to improve the game ... I know, it's too radical.
But could you imagine what Skyrim could have become if Bethesda had actively worked with the community ... and yes, Bethesda is probably the best example of a company working with a community.
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18 Dec
X : You said you stopped researching on organisational structure ...
Me : ... I stopped experimenting (i.e. running organisations) in 2007. PST is where I got to. If you want to go beyond pioneer - settler - town planner then you'll need to find some experimenting in that space.
X : But you research on leadership?
Me : No, I more observe using population studies how organisations behaviour is changing. Hence - leadingedgeforum.turtl.co/story/on-indus… Image
X : So, surveying CEOs?
Me : No. Simpson's paradox. Take something like cloud, if you summarise the majority view they will tell you the wrong future i.e. the future is hybrid including on premise versus serverless in 2015 ... Image
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16 Dec
On pioneer, settler and town planner ... ok, first apologies for the awful naming. When I used the model fifteen years ago, I was thinking of more Viking settlers in Greenland and not the genocidal varieties. Still need to find better names ...
... there are some really important basics with this model.

1) Everyone is brilliant - blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pio…

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2) Everyone gets to choose and to change. This is about attitudes required for a particular component / project. People change ... often. Allow them to choose and change their attitude as much as they need to. FFS don't tell someone what they are, ask them and let them change.
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15 Dec
I do learn new and interesting terms from the wee lad. Apparently on the school ground today, "based" is a term used by fascists to describe someone with offensive views as being cool. I'm not sure what context I'd ever use that in but still ... language is always evolving.
Still, it's interesting to note that quite a bit of slang is used to communicate identity and membership of a group rather than to impart some other meaning and that children are becoming so aware of this. Maybe this has always been the case.
X : In what context was it used?
Me : As in ... "No-one likes [xyz], he calls things based" ... to which I had to ask what "based" meant.
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15 Dec
X : Will AI do research?
Me : Odd question. AI is already involved in research - from literature searches to finding correlations to even creating hypothesis. It's quite far from the general purpose intelligence you need for causation but maybe in fifty years or so. Why?
X : How do you industrialise research?
Me : Well, you can industrialise components around research but if you're talking about genuine core research then it's in that genesis phase. You literally can't industrialise it.
X : What bits can you industrialise?
Me : Any surrounding components that use defined / known models i.e. publishing, finance, marketing, legal (contracts to patents), HR, admin ... even things like sales. Those would seem like obvious targets. You'd have to map it.
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