Which probably broke more things.

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As part of the shift back to our goals here at The Manasclerk Company, I’ve been looking at what the web has to say (popularly) about “adult underachievers”. Today I found the “advocate for extremely bright children”, Stephanie S. Tolan. Her brief article, “Discovering the Gifted Ex-Child“, describes the trajectory issues that Elliott Jaques & [...]

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Warren Kinston needed to take the company in a direction that, at least for the next year or so, would preclude the work I had joined with him to do. We have therefore parted ways, and I wish him the best in getting his taxonomy into online products. Any questions about the future of the [...]

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From Kinston, Warren. 1988. “A total framework for inquiry”. Systems Research, 5(1): 9-25.

The inherent dangers in the Level VII' [the contemplative] inquiry include fixation on an incorrect idea and inappropriate messianism. Speculative ideas are not practically usable until they have been socially shared with the relevant community….
Scientific process occurs at this level through holistic syntheses [...]

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Klein, Gary. 1997. Making Decisions in Natural Environments. Alexandria, VA: Research and Advanced Concepts Office, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
The article is a great introduction (albeit not his best writing) of Naturalistic Decision Making, and since it was produced for the US Army, it’s free. At least to me. Maybe [...]

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You might have noticed a subtle change on the name. It’s a harbinger of coming changes.
Over the next month, everything at The Manasclerk Company will be undergoing a major (and much needed) overhaul to bring us inline with our original vision. I’ve let the company drift away from what the vision I originally had. Some [...]

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I’ve been evaluating several technologies for a small web project I’m working. One of the things that I’ve seen lately are these popup windows that display on top of the original page, graying out the original and “floating” on top of it. There are several neat implementations of this for images but I needed to [...]

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