... a beginner at something

One year solar, 4455kWh, great harvest

 

Reading: 4455kWh

One year ago, we connected our solar inverter to the grid. It had been repaired under warranty for noise, it is still not within specification, far from it, but for power the system does perform. If all years are as good as this first year, when we sold 2757kWh and consumed the rest we will reach payback break-even in 11 years, not in 13 years as we initially expected.

 

So, how was life with solar?

The Culture Game

Daniel Mezick's new book for the agile manager due out in March. He was so kind to offer me a preview, from which I quote.

 

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Everything is changing, and changing more rapidly than ever before. The rate of this change is increasing like never before.

In 1978, Chris Argyris & Donald Schön published Organizational Learning.

In 1990, Peter Senge published The Fifth Discipline.

In 2001, a tribe of pioneering people in software wrote The Agile Manifesto.

In 2008, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright wrote Tribal Leadership.

Community of practice and trust building

A few days ago I shared my crude model how we go from words to trust. I strung it along: word, definition, context, grammar, meaning, concept, understanding, salience, insight, trust, reputation. I believe each prior step must be present and perceived by both partners in an interaction before the next step gets good traction.

 

Being in the people business of establishing technical trust - as I am - is an interesting combination of challenges: engineering, salesmanship, diplomacy, organization and administration, combined with awareness for the needs of future users of what we test and certify, and the needs and expectations of society.

 

Seeking a competitive edge in this usually means working without a model, or just making one up and test it, see what sticks and build on that. We might see whether we get closer to the goal. That matters. Insight into what's best comes with routine, where do we have that at the edge?

Everyone is a beginner - at something

Together with fail faster, this sounds to me like a license to get shift done. I hope this invites experimentation. That is why I shifted the title of this blog a little.

From:  

Purple Pointr (selected to be just short and unique)
cope, connect, cocreate

How to get from words to trust

For easier grasp of big ideas, I find it helpful to arrange its keywords along a progressing scale. For example, the DIKW model of innovation, well explained by Richard Gayle.

 

Data simply exists. It gains context to become

Information by human interaction, which itself becomes

Knowledge by interconversion of different forms of information.

Wisdom comes from repetition of the DIK cycle.

 

Monica Anderson is another deep thinker and inspired us by suggesting AI filtering to curate the unrelenting news stream. At least add commentary to say why you share. Prior work of hers seeded my understanding of reductionist and holistic ways of thinking. Today I share following spectrum because I believe it reflects a way of thinking along a progressing scale.