From Society to Collectivism
Originally from Latin societas and socius indicating ally, partner and companion. Arrived in English through the French and formalized in some senses as “societies” for purpose (clubs, and organizations of generally voluntary actors). Societies need to communicate, they select for communicative terminology that facilitates the society’s members being able to harmonize their activities or censure…
Readings into Agile Heresy
This is just sort of a collection of readings I picked up digging through the internet for other critiques of the Grand Agile Orthodoxy. I could easily have seen myself writing this if I had the gumption and was pressed into an Agile orthodoxy earlier in my career (and I were a better writer of…
Agile Angst
I hadn’t experienced anything approaching unfiltered “Agile” directly until recently. I worked in software before the Internet explosion, which is before the social-media twit stream outpouring with the metric of “likes” and “followers” (i.e., eyeballs). I had experience building projects and products for specific purpose, with known human resources of established and neophyte talent. In…
Oh, for the Love of Wisdom…
In a previous post, I wrote about the term philosophy (love of wisdom) and emphasized the word love, but spent most of the post describing the conceptions of wisdom, knowledge and other such incomplete mini-models about the human action of thinking. In that post I did introduce “value hierarchy” fairly early, and ended up scattering…
Pursuing Knowledge
The term philosophy, from its Greek roots, it is the love of wisdom. Since I often ponder with a little decompositional analysis, philosophy stands on two legs. The first, that usually (probably?) gets the most attention is wisdom. The second, that usually gets the short end of the semantic relationship, is love; and how “love”…
Naive about Set Theory
A few months back I started putting together a page about systems to provide some foundations (framing, schema?) to communicate further expressions about value-systems, their nature, and evaluating their efficacy and ultimately “value” across a variety of value-assessing criteria (and as one might guess, explain criteria for evaluating any criteria making up an identifiable value…
Pursuing Value
I’ve owned this domain for quite some time, intending to use it to project myself in the way I want to express myself. I’ve never really found the time to plan and develop what that means. I don’t want to really “go public” and collect followers while doing those things that bloggers do; whatever that…
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