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SUBJECTS
Giving Up Links Transform People into Pods Rather than Information in
Pods People Giving Up Transformed by Links Rather than Transform Info
Overwhelmed by Complexity Links Cause People to Give Up Transform Peo
Attitudes Change Pod Movie People Give Up Disillusioned Discouraged C
Driving Truck with Pods People Transformed by Links Rather than Tran
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4808 - Summary/Objective
4809 -
480901 - Follow up ref SDS 47 0000. ref SDS 45 0000.
480902 -
480903 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 to Ross this morning asking for input on deal
480904 - shaping up with Jerry Nord at CSG, and saying...
480905 -
480906 - 1. There is a call planned for this afternoon from Jerry Nord at
480907 - CSG offering to participate in the SDS effort, and it may lead
480908 - to the kind of scenario you and I discussed on 030406.
480909 - ref SDS 35 PS6I
480911 - ..
480912 - 2. At that time we considered how to locate a channel within IBM to
480913 - consider SDS for selling a "solution," etc. That effort died,
480914 - but recently Jerry has offered ideas that deserve some
480915 - attention. ref DIT 1 RB6J After talking to Jerry on 030602, I
480916 - called you to get some input. ref SDS 43 0001
480918 - ..
480919 - 3. You planned to call back in 10 minutes, then got distracted.
480920 - Since this is the second or third time this has occurred, I
480921 - guess some kind of an issue has developed that impedes
480922 - communication. ref DIT 1 Z97G There was a hint in your letter
480923 - on 030428 saying something about don't send a link to explain
480924 - background on Snowden. ref SDS 37 916L
480925 -
480926 - [...below, Ross recalls forgetting to call back. ref SDS 0
480927 - UI9K
480929 - ..
480930 - 4. A science fiction movie released in the 1950s continues to be
480931 - broadcast from time-to-time on television, perhaps because there
480932 - is a larger point, much like children's nursery rhymes, e.g.,
480933 - genie in the bottle, Hansel and Gretle, ant and the grasshopper,
480934 - humpty dumpty. Won't bother here to go into lessons for adults
480935 - from children's nursery rhymes, but the 1950s science fiction
480936 - movie may be of interest -- see if you remember. ref DIT 1 C48F
480938 - ..
480939 - 5. Space ship lands, but rather than blow things up, they take over
480940 - by growing oversized pea "pods" that replace people. Everybody
480941 - looks the same, talks the same, they continue in there jobs
480942 - doing and saying the same things, but now they are a vegetable
480943 - so the spark is gone from their life, maybe because sex is no
480944 - longer in the picture. Everyone in the audience is really
480945 - scared, even though there is no hint of violence in the movie.
480946 - At that time, I would have been between 10 and 15, depending
480947 - upon when the movie was released, and I remember being quite
480948 - disturbed, along with everyone else, seeing a family carry a pod
480949 - into their child's room, because the story had shown that when
480950 - someone goes to sleep, they simply wake up as an alien pod
480951 - person, with their humanity gone. ref DIT 1 K48O
480953 - ..
480954 - 6. The movie ends, with a guy escaping from town to warn the
480955 - authorities, but they are looking at each other in disbelief,
480956 - thinking this guy is a nut. Then a call comes into headquarters
480957 - from an exasperated police officer saying "Man you won't believe
480958 - this, but there is an awful accident on the highway involving a
480959 - lot of cars and a big truck full of huge pea "pods. What should
480960 - we do?" The movie ends with the suggestion that this threat was
480961 - taken seriously and so got solved. ref DIT 1 S44J
480962 -
480963 - [...below, Ross was driving the truck. ref SDS 0 BL9L
480965 - ..
480966 - 7. The past few years I have been reminded of this movie observing
480967 - over and over people, who have championed using computers to
480968 - think, remember and communicate, along the lines of SDS, but
480969 - then give up, because they won't click links, nor get help to
480970 - experience benefits of converting information into knowledge, as
480971 - listed on 000812. ref SDS 25 659F Last week or the week before
480972 - I had a meeting with Pat Lincoln at SRI in Menlo Park. The gist
480973 - of the discussion was that Pat has expended his energy chasing
480974 - money to support a project like SDS, which at SRI they call
480975 - OHS/DKR, per launch meeting on 000324. ref SDS 5 5880 I have
480976 - been after Pat to garner support at SRI for a Knowledge
480977 - Management Lab, because experience seems to be showing that KM
480978 - is more of a research effort for overcoming resistance to saving
480979 - time and money, by growing a culture of knowledge, blah, blah,
480980 - blah. ref DIT 1 T55I Pat has supported SDS, since a meeting on
480981 - 000725. ref SDS 7 0050 an example is his letter on 010111,
480982 - ref SDS 11 3X4I, and later he sponsored a meeting with the CEO
480983 - on 010122. ref SDS 12 LX6H
480985 - ..
480986 - 8. Moreover, the purpose of the recent meeting two weeks ago was to
480987 - review a draft endorsement for SDS dated 030417, strengthening
480988 - the letter Pat issued last year on 020729; so, nominally, Pat is
480989 - a strong advocate for SDS and more generally of KM, ref DIT 1
480990 - 6F3J, as shown by the draft endorsement. ref OF 1 0001
480992 - ..
480993 - 9. Of interest here are Pat's comments, during the meeting, that,
480994 - in effect he has given up on advancing KM. In other words, the
480995 - problem set out in the draft endorsement that delays progress,
480996 - and which the endorsement strives to solve, has engulfed Pat, as
480997 - reported on 030527, ref SDS 41 XX6M, i.e., he went to sleep and
480998 - woke up a "pod" person. ref DIT 1 AH4I I am saying this with
480999 - some humor, because later in the discussion, Pat raked me over
481000 - the coals for not having installed SDS on his computer last
481001 - year, when we discussed him doing a pilot test. ref SDS 41 YR5M
481002 - He indicated during the meeting that he wants to become the Com
481003 - Manager for SRI's CEO, relating that Curt gets mad when people
481004 - don't remember what happens in meetings, and so presumably
481005 - people are not taking the follow up action Curt thinks he has in
481006 - mind. Pat feels that using SDS will let him solve the problem,
481007 - and was only concerned about how to maintain confidentiality of
481008 - the record. ref SDS 41 QE9O Curt had put the kibosh on an
481009 - initiative in 2001 when Pat recommended that SRI hire me to do
481010 - Com Metrics for SRI executive meetings. Curt told Pat at that
481011 - time, according to Pat, that the executive team would rebel if
481012 - Curt approved using SDS. ref SDS 15 E688 So, what concerned Pat
481013 - last week is how to give Curt control over what is published on
481014 - the Internet. It turns out that "control" is a core component
481015 - of SDS support for "command and control" of the record, as
481016 - explained in POIMS. ref OF 6 1113 I explained that nothing needs
481017 - to be published on the Internet. We used SDS for years before
481018 - the Internet came along, and only added capability for the
481019 - Internet in 1998.
481021 - ..
481022 - 10. This record suggests a mere misperception turned people, anxious
481023 - to benefit from good management, into "pods" who fear the light
481024 - of knowledge more than the darkness of ignorance, as foretold by
481025 - the Legend of Prometheus, which you and Hutch reviewed for a
481026 - school project, reported on 991108. ref SDS 4 4355 Curt and Pat
481027 - both thought that SDS records are created on the Internet and
481028 - are a creature of the Internet, and so Curt naturally worried
481029 - about public disclosure of everything said in an executive
481030 - meeting, as Pat reported on 010522. ref SDS 15 E688 This
481031 - perception was not apparent to me, because creating content on
481032 - the Internet for daily management is not a good idea.
481033 - Never-the-less it was the dominant idea in Curt's mind and
481034 - evidently in Pat's mind, too, perhaps because the only SDS
481035 - content they had seen was on the Internet, and perhaps, as well,
481036 - because everyone else trying to develop Knowledge Management
481037 - these days has wrapped their arms around the notion of
481038 - "collaboration" and this is translated into technologies for
481039 - creating content to share on the Internet, as explained in
481040 - POIMS. ref OF 3 X16L Pat noted during our meeting last week
481041 - that he knows I can write a public record for private meetings
481042 - that is useful without disclosing sensitive information, but
481043 - Curt doesn't know this because he has no experience. So we
481044 - wasted 2 years because of a mistaken perception that SDS is like
481045 - the tools other people are trying to create. ref DIT 1 6A6M
481047 - ..
481048 - 11. The long and short of this is that Pat seems interested in using
481049 - SDS, but is discouraged about promoting KM, per se, at this
481050 - time. So I am working to help him get started gaining
481051 - experience using SDS at SRI, as we did with Gary at
481052 - Aerospace company. In fact the Aerospace company experience gave Pat confidence that
481053 - he can learn to use SDS. ref DIT 1 FG9I
481055 - ..
481056 - 12. This brings me to you. One of the most frequent complaints
481057 - about using SDS work product is links. Won't bother to give you
481058 - a link on this, an example is Dave Snowden's letter on 020920,
481059 - ref SDS 28 5Y8I, but you can imagine when I got your letter the
481060 - other day on 030428 saying don't send a link, ref SDS 37 916L,
481061 - this made me wonder about another "pod" problem. ref DIT 1 HG4F
481063 - ..
481064 - 13. I would love to have a discussion on using links for a resource
481065 - to expand span of attention, checking accuracy and understanding
481066 - context, when helpful. This powerful new asset of added help
481067 - does not impose a liability, requirement, nor a duty to open
481068 - links. ref OF 6 4079 The opportunity to drive a car does not
481069 - impede those who like exercise and have plenty of time from
481070 - walking to the store. So, too, a car that permits driving 60,
481071 - 70, 80, 90, MPH does not force people to drive at full speed;
481072 - but, rather permits exercising judgement to drive according to
481073 - conditions. Openning SDS links, similarly requires "judicious
481074 - review" to decide on openning links based on conditions, as
481075 - related on 990419. ref SDS 2 FY6F and ref SDS 2 0M3L However,
481076 - this discussion has been deferred due to your heavy schedule.
481077 - ref DIT 1 1H4M
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SUBJECTS
Business Expertise Support Manage and Own SDS
Driving the Truck Full of Pods Giving Up on Links Causing Some Issues
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520502 - Proposal Review Jerry Nord Proposal
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520504 - 14. More importantly, want to engage your expertise on issues of
520505 - business development in relation to ideas presented the other
520506 - day by Jerry Nord at CSG on supporting SDS development. This
520507 - would not be an IBM level effort, but it is a start, and the
520508 - issue I am wondering about what terms and conditions to impose
520509 - to protect IP. My sense is that you may have helpful input on
520510 - these issues, but if you are mad or otherwise have given up on
520511 - the whole exercise, then we cannot make progress. ref DIT 1 4H5I
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520513 - [...below, Ross asks about the time of the call today,
520514 - ref SDS 0 2J4F,
520516 - ..
520517 - 15. Most importantly, don't want fussing around about SDS to get in
520518 - the way of family. Maybe there is something else completely
520519 - apart from SDS that has created a big issue. In any case, can
520520 - understand that this is heavy lifting, and won't bother you
520521 - again if you choose to let this go. ref DIT 1 JH6I
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520901 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Ross saying....
520903 - ..
520904 - 1. I was driving the truck full of pods that slid out of control on
520905 - the highway!!! ref DRT 1 0001
520907 - ..
520908 - 2. Sorry not to have called you back. You are right, I was pulled
520909 - into another meeting and had to run to a baseball game as soon
520910 - as that ended. ref DRT 1 ZI5M
520912 - ..
520913 - 3. What time is the call with Jerry? ref DRT 1 PI6G
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520916 - ..
520917 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 responding to Ross' letter and saying...
520918 -
520919 - 1. Not to worry, there is an antidote for pods when driving.
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520921 - 2. Jerry says in his letter below my long exegesis that he plans to
520922 - call this afternoon at 1p pacific time. His letter offering to
520923 - participate in SDS effort is at the bottom, and analysis is
520924 - reported on 030604. ref SDS 45 0001
520926 - ..
520927 - 3. You can avoid the link by looking at Jerry's letter at the
520928 - bottom of this letter.
520930 - ..
520931 - 4. To cut to the chase, would like some feedback on using terms and
520932 - conditions set up with Gary at Aerospace company on 030126.
520933 - ref SDS 31 KG9L
520935 - ..
520936 - 5. Am just wondering if there is anything you would add to analysis
520937 - of a few para on 030604. ref SDS 45 PPUQ
520939 - ..
520940 - 6. Again, sorry about the links. Sometimes links help and
520941 - sometimes they are confusing like using "skill based routing,"
520942 - which entails guessing which button to press on the telephone to
520943 - get support. Unlike using pressing buttons on the telephone, If
520944 - you get lost in SDS links, call and we can step through stuff to
520945 - aid orientation. When a record seems confusing, it can mean the
520946 - writer did a poor job, and so signals to steer clear of the
520947 - effort. It can also mean the issues are complex and so require
520948 - greater attention, what Grove calls "study," in his book on
520949 - managing Intel, reviewed on 980307. ref SDS 1 5794 Links are
520950 - supposed to convert information into knowledge, not people into
520951 - pods, but in life, there are no guarantees. Hopefully, we can
520952 - pioneer a path to a better future. Not perfect, just much
520953 - better.
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520956 - 7. Who won the game?
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520958 - [...refers to Ross attending a baseball game, per above.
520959 - ref SDS 0 UI9K
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