CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Comments on usefulness
Thinking Through Writing
Industry Contacts
Sales discussions

0706 -    ..
0707 - Summary/Objective
0708 -
070801 - Followed up work at ref SDS 7 line 23.  Drove from Portland to
070802 - Everett, Wa, about 300 Mi.
070803 -
070804 - Visited with Kathleen.  She and Millie went for a drive.  Bob and I
070805 - watched a variety of football games.
070806 -
070807 - Patty and Mike came over for dinner about 2000.
070808 -
070809 - Mike was successful in raquet ball as teenager, then gave it up due to
070810 - the pressure of success and commercial interests.  He was the highest
070811 - ranked person in Washington and Oregon.  He has shoulder and knee
070812 - problems from that experience.
070813 -
070814 -
070815 - Explained SDS to Mike.  He sells fish.  His Dad is in the real estate
070816 - business.  Mike works with him occassionally and feels the amount and
070817 - range of information needed to perform the work for customers, banks,
070818 - title companies and government agencies, makes it difficult to work
070819 - effectively.  His Dad's filing system has a lot of documents, but Mike
070820 - is unable to find the information needed in time.  His Dad "knows"
070821 - where everything is, but is thinking about using computers, because he
070822 - feels computers should be able to organize information and retrieve it
070823 - quickly when needed.
070824 -
070825 - Mike said his Dad bought or acquired a computer as a result of a
070826 - contract foreclosure.  He wanted Patty to develop a configuration to
070827 - accomplish his objectives for automated management.  However, the
070828 - machine has only 240K or RAM and 10 MB of disk space, and an 8088
070829 - processor.  His Dad feels that since he has a computer, it should be
070830 - able to use the programs he hears about that are used by businesses.
070831 -
070832 - I said a lot of older managers have difficulty accepting that a
070833 - modern Personal Computer (PC) is needed to run modern software.
070834 -
070835 - Mike would like to use the computer to show the status of company
070836 - sales.  I said a spreadsheet like Lotus 123 or Excel can do this, and
070837 - there are likely specific real estate programs that can do what he
070838 - wants.  But they need to spend about $2K - $3K to get an adequate
070839 - computer.  The computer Patty has borrowed from me can do what he has
070840 - in mind.
070841 -
070842 - I said SDS is a new kine of software tool to make computers valuable
070843 - to the management function, see for example the analysis of the work
070844 - at Discovery College, ref SDS 1 line 199.  SDS is installed on the
070845 - computer Patty has. Kathleen can show Patty and Mike how to use SDS,
070846 - but he should not expect immediate results.
070847 -
070848 - Mike said she and Patty ran into the person who introduced me to
070849 - Discovery College, and that person asked Patty about the status of
070850 - SDS.  [Think this was Buck Olsen, per ref SDS 2 line 37.]  I said that
070851 - relationship did not work out because the project was under- financed.
070852 - I felt the owner of Discovery College was a hard working, dedicated
070853 - educator.
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SUBJECTS
Comments on usefulness
Thinking Through Writing

0905 - Summary/Objective
0906 -
090601 - Kathleen's comments on SDS.
090602 -
090603 - The program has become my 'alter ego'.  I write my responses to
090604 - newspaper editorials, magazine articles, movies and books (etc.), then
090605 - analyze my thinking.  I also have an area that is conversation with
090606 - God.  There is an area where I have written about various jobs I have
090607 - held and what I really believe - not what is the public view but how
090608 - things really are.  There are times I will intentionally write
090609 - something that is contrary to what I really think/feel because it is
090610 - possible that someone else could read my thoughts and think that the
090611 - words/syntax describe who I really am and this is no one's business.
090612 -
090613 - I have written poetry, essays and correspondence because it is a
090614 - wonderful sense of freedom and these things are under the subject
090615 - index ' personal and confidential' because if anyone were to read this
090616 - information, without my permission, then they could not repeat it.
090617 - But, then, I am just a simple minded person who constantly contradicts
090618 - myself and calls up personal experiences when I relate to objective
090619 - material.
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