Arv' Musings

Most of this "problem solving" is simply a matter of selfishness, of wanting to get your way. You want people to behave in a way you'd like. Since they are not, you'd like to help them with their problem so they will behave better.

The product is what your customer feels as he walks out of your business.

The truth is no one knows what's going on and all of us are winging it. Some pretend well, some don't. Some are scoring a lot of points while winging it and that makes us assume they are experts.

Everyone around you sees you only through a rather small window, and through their lens. So, take what they say with that in mind. And the people who are much further out, who don't even know you through that window - how much attention should you be paying them?

unbounded growth cannot be sustained without having either infinite resources or inducing major paradigm shifts that "reset" the clock before potential collapse occurs.

A point of view is that quintessential human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum.