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Purpose, Principles, Process ... Progress

Thanks to @Nurturegirl for listening, inspiration and prodding to write this up.

Writing procedures for a preferably lean management system is like writing lean code, only it is not to instruct computers. Procedures instruct people, or better help them to follow a defined, proven process to achieve some of the purposes of the organization more efficiently. Of course, people can do so much more than computers, they can improve instructions and reject faulty ones, where a computer would just bug out.

 

Aha! moment regarding site visitor survey

Giorgio shared his insightful blog post The Aha! Moment – The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight and on it was a video I clicked,

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Radiation risk: what about ground or food contamination?

Relative radiation risk... Recently, we get a lot of radiation values in our news streams and very few have comparison data to estimate: is this normal, elevated, severe or hazardous? Distrust and panic may result. Here, I aim to provide a bit of grounding.

Most simple Geiger counters, as used on this site and in many places, are good for a warning to stay indoors in case of black rain from nuclear fallout. Sensitive as they may be, they are hardly sensitive enough to quickly and reliably detect the small additional activity within the normal background radiation to isolate the contribution from a ground or food sample. It usually takes heavy shielding and good spectrometry to tell that story truthfully.