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DIARY: June 1, 2000 01:00 PM Thursday; Rod Welch

Received letter from Joe Williams about contributing to SDS, POIMS.

1...Summary/Objective


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0404 - Summary/Objective
0405 -
040501 - Follow up ref SDS 9 0000, ref SDS 4 0000.
040502 -
040503 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Joe Williams, a contributor to Doug's
040504 - DKR team meeting at SRI.
040505 -
040506 - Joe cites an excerpt from Mary Keeler's paper on Charles Peirce's
040507 - philosophy, which was reviewed on 000515, ref SDS 2 0005, and cited
040508 - in the record of the meeting on 000518 at SRI, ref SDS 5 8439,
040509 - although not the specific part Joe cites today...
040510 -
040511 -    Self-criticism can never be perfectly thorough for the last act of
040512 -    criticism is always itself open to criticism.  But as long as we
040513 -    remain disposed to self-criticism and to further inquiry, we have
040514 -    in this disposition an assurance that if the truth of any question
040515 -    can ever be got at, we shall eventually get at it. ref OF 1 0837
040516 -
040517 - Joe reports review of SDS record on the Internet, and seems to concur
040518 - with Welch analysis on the cause of poor management performance,
040519 - noting that adding structure to information improves collaboration.
040520 - ref DRT 1 0864
040521 -
040522 - Joe says usable repositories like SDS, and the grander system Doug's
040523 - DKR team is thinking about, will add tools and techniques for scaling
040524 - best practices to the specific job. ref DRT 1 3410
040525 -
040526 -     It would help to get examples of a "best practice" people have in
040527 -     mind for scaling to specific jobs?
040528 -
040529 -     Experience seems to show that engineers, mechanics, doctors,
040530 -     scientists, educators, politicians, people in every field have a
040531 -     common problem of not being able to align communication for more
040532 -     than a minute, i.e., they lack command and control of their
040533 -     thoughts and ideas.
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040535 - Joe offers to discuss some detail of processing, storage, or reference
040536 - problem to improve in SDS, and to try and make a suggestion.
040537 - ref DRT 1 2940
040538 -
040539 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Joe responding to his letter, suggesting
040540 - we review Doug's progress on developing a budget and schedule for
040541 - moving ahead with DKR.
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