Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hannson in their new Rework published by Crown Business advise going against most of what we’ve come to accept as sacred business truths. Having worked with federal funded programs from education to drug and alcohol prevention, I know their proclivity toward forcing recipients to use business ways. So I am [...]
“Joinery” refers both to the craft of a joiner, someone who makes things by joining together pieces of wood, and to the premises from which the craft is practiced.
Prevention
Planning not always effective for changing social complex systems
Is governmental agencies insistence on upfront planning undermining efforts to really improve education and preventing substance abuse in our communities? I came across a passage today in a 2005 publication of the Institute for Defense Analyses, Learning to adapt to asymmetric threats. A slew of retired Army, Navy and Air Force officers are credited with [...]
“HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials”: From yesterday’s slashdot discussions
An anonymous reader writes “An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Ontario has [0]applied for Phase 1 human trials. Safety and immunogenicity studies of the vaccine, dubbed SAV001-H, have already been completed on animals. Phase 1 human trials will check the safety of the vaccine on HIV positive volunteers. Phase 2 will then test immunogenicity.”
from the soon-enough-mandatory-like-gardasil [...]
I find complex adaptive systems a conundrum for evaluators, Part One
As you can tell I’ve become fascinated with the new attention and use of complex adaptive systems (CAS), particularly in the line of human CAS (not ants or bacteria). I believe complexity will give me a new angle, a new perspective for reporting and evaluation.
Maybe I should add, “it is new to me since the [...]