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The Bureau of Communication - Fill-in-the-blank Correspondence
What's the middle ground between "F.U!" and "Welcome!"? | Ask MetaFilter
Answer to a question asking how to say no to someone asking to stay over a few nights at one's house: "This is a classic case of Ask Culture meets Guess Culture. In some families, you grow up with the expectation that it's OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. This is Ask Culture. In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes."
Real World Technologies - Forums
"And the best way to avoid communication is to have some "culture" - which is just another way to say "collection of rules that don't even need to be written down/spoken, since people are aware of it". Sure, we obviously have a lot of documentation about how things are supposed to be done, but exactly as with any regular human culture, documentation is kind of secondary. (Put another way: there are lots of books about culture, and you can get a PhD in anthropology and spend all your life just studying it - but for 99% of all people, you don't read a book about your culture, you learn it by being part of the community)."
Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets - July 2009 - Armed Forces Journal - Military Strategy, Global Defense Strategy
"Compounding the problem, the briefer often reads these slides aloud while the audience is trying to read the other information on the slide. Since most people read at least twice as fast as most people can talk, he is wasting half of his listeners’ time and simultaneously reducing comprehension of the material." Thoughtful piece on PowerPoint--the author dislikes them, particular when they form part of "decision briefs," not "information briefs." (I think most tech uses of slides are essentially "information briefs.")
Paxos algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Paxos is a family of protocols for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processors"
A Little Less Conversation
"And on every project, assign one person to make sure that communication happens -- but only the right communication. Otherwise the team will just start having long meetings with everyone there and, frankly, people will socialize, and bloviate, and speechify, and argue about things they don't really care about just to hear their own voices." One of the rules in Roberts Rules of Order is that everyone gets a chance to speak once, before anyone speaks twice. That might help as well.
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