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DIARY: February 21, 2000 04:18 AM Monday; Rod Welch

Dick Karpinski comments on SDS and POIMS.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Open Source Expresses Love of Mankind - Did It Help Prometheus?
3...Intelligence Turns Fear of Accountability into Opportunity for Credit
4...SDS Requires Experience to Understand Methodlogy Overcome Ignorance
......Dick's Vision - Alphabet Technology Powerful Public Utility
......Germinating Next Generation on POIMS Compelling Formula
......Marketing Options - Not All or Nothing
......Manual Published on Web Enables Others to Replicate SDS
5...Scenario of SDS Typical Day Illustrates Application
6...SDS Supports Analysis So Less Effort Yields Better Understanding
7...SDS Project Based on PEARL, Needs Manual


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Computer Generalist                                                                                                                                                O-00000749 0101
020101 - Mr. Richard Karpinski                                                                                                                                            O-00000749 0101

SUBJECTS
Customer Requests for Information
Karpinski, Dick, 000218

0404 -
0404 -    ..
0405 - Summary/Objective
0406 -
040601 - Follow up ref SDS 90 0000, ref SDS 89 0000.
040602 -
040603 - Dick sent three letters today.  He asks for my letter on the meeting
040604 - last Friday; his second letter asks if I have received his first
040605 - letter, and reports having received my letter on the meeting, and asks
040606 - about training materials.  Dick's third letter corrects the address
040607 - taken from his business card.
040609 -  ..
040610 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 linked to this record, and to the typical day
040611 - scenario using SDS. ref OF 5 0001
040612 -
040613 -       [On 000222 Dick reported SDS scenario helpful. ref SDS 92 6120]
040614 -
040615 -
040616 -
040618 -  ..
0407 -
0408 -
0409 - Progress
0410 -
041001 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Dick Karpinski asking about progress on
041002 - the letter covering our meeting on 000218.
041004 -  ..
041005 - There was a delay getting the letter submitted because of problems
041006 - with the ISP on 000219. ref SDS 91 0001
041008 -  ..
041009 - Eventually, submitted ref DIP 1 0001 linked to the record of the
041010 - meeting on 000218. ref SDS 90 0001
041012 -  ..
041013 - Received a second letter from Dick, ref DRT 2 0001, asking if I
041014 - received his first letter, and noting having received my letter,
041015 - ref DIP 1 0001, prepared for the meeting on 000218. ref SDS 90 0001
041017 -  ..
041018 - Received a third letter correcting Dick's address.
041019 -
041020 -
041021 -
041022 -
0411 -

SUBJECTS
Open Source Produces Experience Needed for Understanding SDS
Internet, Business Intelligence
Open Source Distribution on Intenet
Program Guide for SDS
Karpinski, Dick, 000218
Civilization Improved,
Market Created by Others
Consulting in New SDS Market
Compete in New SDS Market
Dilemma Industry Doesn't Know How to Design KM

1612 -
161301 -  ..
161302 - Open Source Expresses Love of Mankind - Did It Help Prometheus?
161303 - Intelligence Turns Fear of Accountability into Opportunity for Credit
161304 - SDS Requires Experience to Understand Methodlogy Overcome Ignorance
161305 -
161306 - Dick notes in his letter today that helping people understand SDS is
161307 - "tricky."
161308 -
161309 - He further observes denial is a way of life, and so confrontation with
161310 - the truth is not often welcomed. ref DRT 1 2914
161311 -
161312 -     [On 000315 Colloquium at Stanford frustrated by resistance to DKR
161313 -     acceptance. ref SDS 93 1914
161315 -  ..
161316 - Dick's analysis aligns with the record showing...
161317 -
161318 -     1.  Fear of accountability reviewed on 980405. ref SDS 41 5065
161319 -
161320 -     2.  Fear of responsibility for knowledge, reviewed on 991014.
161321 -         ref SDS 69 3066
161323 -          ..
161324 -         Legend of Prometheus on 991108. ref SDS 70 5810
161326 -  ..
161327 - Dick says the way to help people see the advantages of SDS, POIMS and
161328 - Communication Metrics is to love them enough to provide them with a
161329 - real opportunity to experience capability free of charge.  He feels
161330 - open source removes barriers to using the best known practices.
161331 - ref DRT 1 9180
161333 -  ..
161334 - Dick seems to cite the Welch experience creating and using SDS that
161335 - demonstrates value every day. ref DRT 1 1352
161336 -
161337 - ..
161338 - Dick proposes letting people try SDS over the web to become
161339 - addicted, and suggests that Welch will be an obvious candidate to
161340 - satisfy their appetite and competition for your attention will drive
161341 - up the demand for and price of your services, whatever way you would
161342 - choose to offer them. ref DRT 1 2960,
161344 -       ..
161345 -      Dick's Vision - Alphabet Technology Powerful Public Utility
161346 -      Germinating Next Generation on POIMS Compelling Formula
161347 -
161348 -      Dick proposes that if there is a chunk of valuable thought in
161349 -      POIMS, perhaps a symphony of great ideas, all working together,
161350 -      in cooperation with an active participating person, let's not
161351 -      lose it. Perhaps the varient fated to catch the wave and change
161352 -      our culture forever is something a 14 year old in Finland will do
161353 -      with the system that you put out into the open source community.
161354 -      ref DRT 1 0720
161356 -       ..
161357 -      The alphabet is an open source, public utility, reviewed with
161358 -      Morris on 970116. ref SDS 32 0002
161360 -       ..
161361 -      On 991021 plan to use Internet to expose market to advantages of
161362 -
161363 -
161364 -                        Anytime, anywhere Intelligence
161365 -
161366 -
161367 -      ...ref SDS 36 3636  Some of this has worked, as reported on
161368 -      981104. ref SDS 45 4320  On 990907 Dave Vannier at Intel noted
161369 -      that Com Metrics on the web demonstrates added value. ref SDS 66
161370 -      0149
161372 -       ..
161373 -      Efforts have been made to enjoin the younger generation in the
161374 -      mission of POIMS and Com Metrics, for example on 981108.
161375 -      ref SDS 70 0001  More recently on 000105 submitted letter to
161376 -      Stephanie Buck. ref SDS 74 0001
161378 -       ..
161379 -      Dick's strong point is that really big changes are hard to
161380 -      assimilate and so require wide exposure in order increase the
161381 -      chances of getting a few hits that may flower.
161382 -
161384 -       ..
161385 -      Marketing Options - Not All or Nothing
161386 -      Manual Published on Web Enables Others to Replicate SDS
161387 -
161388 -      Dick advises that publishing a manual would enable a competent
161389 -      programming team to build software that looks like SDS.  That
161390 -      means that it's not a great barrier to entry of some other
161391 -      competitor. ref DRT 1 3190
161393 -       ..
161394 -      He proposes relying on ability to recognize valuable improvements
161395 -      and innovations, to stay ahead of competition. ref DRT 1 5400
161396 -      ..
161397 -      Where is the reward for showing the way?  Is this another
161398 -      Prometheus endeavor, reported on 981108? ref SDS 70 5810
161400 -       ..
161401 -      Another marketing model is to present capability in segments.
161402 -      Disclose enough initially for major players to participate in
161403 -      forming a viable market, then lead the market with key
161404 -      innovations.
161405 -      ..
161406 -      Availability of a manual may lead to the outcome Dick
161407 -      anticiaptes of other programmers creating workable applications
161408 -      of POIMS and SDS.  Morris reviewed a fairly detailed manual,
161409 -      about 400 pages, and found SDS difficult to use, reported on
161410 -      890809. ref SDS 3 0005  He reported on 980722 that SDS is hard to
161411 -      code. ref SDS 43 3280
161412 -
161413 -         [On 000222 Dick requests the 400 page manual. ref SDS 92 8955]
161415 -          ..
161416 -         [On 000326 Dick wants more information on SDS. ref SDS 94 1617
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SUBJECTS
Web Site Demo SDS
Ambasadors for Change
Experience with SDS Records Illustrates Intelligence
Scenario Typical Day Using SDS

2006 -
200701 -  ..
200702 - Scenario of SDS Typical Day Illustrates Application
200703 - SDS Supports Analysis So Less Effort Yields Better Understanding
200704 -
200705 - Dick says...
200706 -
200707 -      One part of the process amounts to meditation. You deliberately
200708 -      put yourself in a state where you are not immediately concerned
200709 -      with your welfare or any other mundane truth. Instead you focus
200710 -      on understanding the meaning, and import, and facts of things
200711 -      just discovered and the specifics and implications of what
200712 -      happened as a result of the thing you did because you had
200713 -      scheduled it. Your tool permits you to record and annotate what
200714 -      happened conveniently, creating and filing away just the right
200715 -      consequential new node or lines of text in the right places,
200716 -      whatever you call them. ref DRT 1 2074
200718 -  ..
200719 - This is a good explanation of analysis, called out by Drucker as an
200720 - important task and responsibility of leadership and management,
200721 - reviewed on 931130. ref SDS 12 7911
200722 -
200723 -     Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 providing the SDS typical day scenario to
200724 -     help him see how it is used. ref OF 5 0001
200726 -      ..
200727 -     [On 000222 Dick reports SDS scenario is helpful. ref SDS 92 6120]
200729 -  ..
200730 - Using SDS contributes to understanding by providing a reservoir of
200731 - knowledge to enrich information, as for example the record on 950204
200732 - providing a similar explanation to Dick's narrative today. ref SDS 16
200733 - 4365
200735 -  ..
200736 - When people see a record like this, they think of the hours and days
200737 - it would take them to create it.  Whereas, what we want them to
200738 - realize is that SDS technology reduces the time to minutes.
200739 -
200740 -
200741 -
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SUBJECTS
SDS Windows Project, PEARL
Manual

2204 -
220501 -  ..
220502 - SDS Project Based on PEARL, Needs Manual
220503 -
220504 - Dick wants to see the SDS manual, also cited above. ref SDS 0 2800
220505 -
220506 - He discusses recreating SDS using Perl, in a tenth of the lines of
220507 - code and a lot less time and effort. ref DRT 1 3900
220509 -  ..
220510 - Dick confirms in a second letter the need for a manual, and asks for
220511 - instructional examples. ref DRT 2 2665
220512 -
220513 -     The manual is now the SDS online Help system.
220514 -
220515 -         [On 000222 Dick requests 400 page manual. ref SDS 92 8955]
220517 -      ..
220518 -     A scenario explains how SDS is used, ref OF 5 0001, on 950514.
220519 -     ref SDS 19 0001
220521 -      ..
220522 -     Need preliminary feasiblity outline on PEARL project for review
220523 -     with Morris, per analysis on 000218. ref SDS 90 1680
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