UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SHOULD WARRANTY THEIR PRODUCTS, AND WE SHOULD SUE THEM FOR THE FAILURE OF THEIR PRODUCTS TO PERFORM. [T]he state gives the universities protection from suits. For selling non-performing products. (But then, the government is a monopoly that forces us to buy its services too.) Q: “Should a college education be offered to all people or to just a certain group of people?” “Should” is an interesting question. “College Education” is a loose term. “Offered” is a questionable term. The data suggest we send way too many people to college and way too few people to apprenticeship programs. Just statistically speaking, if it takes a 110-115 IQ to complete liberal arts education that means that we should be only educating `10-20% of the population and the rest should get vocational training rather than liberal arts training. Now that said, if colleges and universities had to warrantee their products, rather than sell non performing products, say, by getting x% of your payroll for 30 years, then we could drop tuition fees altogether, loans altogether, and let universities borrow to cover float (receiveables) themselves. This would rapidly change the university system from just another parasitic quasi-governmental bureaucracy, to a market driven organization. University costs and administrative costs would plummet, and courses woukd be outcome oriented. This is the best idea for solving the problem of parasitic but useless university degrees. We know now that we learn nothing at university if value. All they do is sort and filter the population.
Category: Business, Organization, and Management
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Why Aren’t Educations Warrantied?
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SHOULD WARRANTY THEIR PRODUCTS, AND WE SHOULD SUE THEM FOR THE FAILURE OF THEIR PRODUCTS TO PERFORM. [T]he state gives the universities protection from suits. For selling non-performing products. (But then, the government is a monopoly that forces us to buy its services too.) Q: “Should a college education be offered to all people or to just a certain group of people?” “Should” is an interesting question. “College Education” is a loose term. “Offered” is a questionable term. The data suggest we send way too many people to college and way too few people to apprenticeship programs. Just statistically speaking, if it takes a 110-115 IQ to complete liberal arts education that means that we should be only educating `10-20% of the population and the rest should get vocational training rather than liberal arts training. Now that said, if colleges and universities had to warrantee their products, rather than sell non performing products, say, by getting x% of your payroll for 30 years, then we could drop tuition fees altogether, loans altogether, and let universities borrow to cover float (receiveables) themselves. This would rapidly change the university system from just another parasitic quasi-governmental bureaucracy, to a market driven organization. University costs and administrative costs would plummet, and courses woukd be outcome oriented. This is the best idea for solving the problem of parasitic but useless university degrees. We know now that we learn nothing at university if value. All they do is sort and filter the population.
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Why Aren't Educations Warrantied?
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SHOULD WARRANTY THEIR PRODUCTS, AND WE SHOULD SUE THEM FOR THE FAILURE OF THEIR PRODUCTS TO PERFORM. [T]he state gives the universities protection from suits. For selling non-performing products. (But then, the government is a monopoly that forces us to buy its services too.) Q: “Should a college education be offered to all people or to just a certain group of people?” “Should” is an interesting question. “College Education” is a loose term. “Offered” is a questionable term. The data suggest we send way too many people to college and way too few people to apprenticeship programs. Just statistically speaking, if it takes a 110-115 IQ to complete liberal arts education that means that we should be only educating `10-20% of the population and the rest should get vocational training rather than liberal arts training. Now that said, if colleges and universities had to warrantee their products, rather than sell non performing products, say, by getting x% of your payroll for 30 years, then we could drop tuition fees altogether, loans altogether, and let universities borrow to cover float (receiveables) themselves. This would rapidly change the university system from just another parasitic quasi-governmental bureaucracy, to a market driven organization. University costs and administrative costs would plummet, and courses woukd be outcome oriented. This is the best idea for solving the problem of parasitic but useless university degrees. We know now that we learn nothing at university if value. All they do is sort and filter the population.
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Why Aren’t Educations Warrantied?
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES SHOULD WARRANTY THEIR PRODUCTS, AND WE SHOULD SUE THEM FOR THE FAILURE OF THEIR PRODUCTS TO PERFORM. [T]he state gives the universities protection from suits. For selling non-performing products. (But then, the government is a monopoly that forces us to buy its services too.) Q: “Should a college education be offered to all people or to just a certain group of people?” “Should” is an interesting question. “College Education” is a loose term. “Offered” is a questionable term. The data suggest we send way too many people to college and way too few people to apprenticeship programs. Just statistically speaking, if it takes a 110-115 IQ to complete liberal arts education that means that we should be only educating `10-20% of the population and the rest should get vocational training rather than liberal arts training. Now that said, if colleges and universities had to warrantee their products, rather than sell non performing products, say, by getting x% of your payroll for 30 years, then we could drop tuition fees altogether, loans altogether, and let universities borrow to cover float (receiveables) themselves. This would rapidly change the university system from just another parasitic quasi-governmental bureaucracy, to a market driven organization. University costs and administrative costs would plummet, and courses woukd be outcome oriented. This is the best idea for solving the problem of parasitic but useless university degrees. We know now that we learn nothing at university if value. All they do is sort and filter the population.
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HOW TO RAPIDLY BECOME A BILLIONAIRE? (seriously) (worth reading) Its been done.
HOW TO RAPIDLY BECOME A BILLIONAIRE?
(seriously) (worth reading)
Its been done. Secret? Threaten a big company’s revenue stream or customer base, by providing a service better than they do.
Why is that possible? Internal incompetence of bureaucracies. Why? Because brands always seek to facilitate the brand with tangential value rather than deliver a product or service in the most excellent way possible for consumers regardless of brand. Almost all companies make this mistake, Apple and Microsoft included.
Dropbox should never have had a chance. But every other large organization failed by trying to “leverage”. That is a fallacy.
Beats threatened Apple. Multiple companies threatened Facebook.
Unfortunately management falsely understands the leverage as risk mitigation rather than risk amplification.
Make it excellent. Threaten them over their mistakes.
That is how you become a billionaire in short fashion.
Thankfully I don’t care to be more than a millionaire. I do my threatening of paradigmatic fallacies with political philosophy and for me that is a greater reward. š
(Please Share so we see what people say. ;). )
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-25 05:59:00 UTC
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SENT THEM TO A VILLA IN CYPRUS (personal) (product development) (writing) I sent
SENT THEM TO A VILLA IN CYPRUS
(personal) (product development) (writing)
I sent the development team, and their wives, to a Villa in Cyprus again, for the summer, as incentive to get to feature complete. Lots of strategy in play. They really can’t do much except eat, work, and play there. No distractions from the chaos here. And team bonding is awesome when you live together. They seem pretty happy about it (mostly). One wife isn’t all that thrilled I guess. š The rest appear to be.
Until they get to feature complete, my work is to basically leave them alone. Once we get to feature complete, then I get to dump all the minor changes on them. And once that’s done, I’ll have a beta product ready to raise a capital round, just in time for the fall.
While I”m doing the raise, we work on performance, since it’s a pretty heavy app. The backend is fine. The UI is heavy. And we need to speed it up a bit.
I suspect the US economy will continue to weaken, but I don’t see a loss of appetite for this kind of product.
Cyprus is an advantageous banking economy. Ukraine is an advantageous tax economy. We are still trying to figure out how to do all this without being in the predatory US of A, or EU.
The flip side is that I am pretty free to write now. But book-writing and post-writing are two different things. And the book work is slow going. We’ll see. I’ll keep at it. š
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-06 08:02:00 UTC
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(open system governance)(chaordic mgt)(super efficiency) Biomimicry: Myrmecology
(open system governance)(chaordic mgt)(super efficiency)
Biomimicry: Myrmecology (study of ants) reveals complexity (a distributive system) is key to effectiveness (efficacy).
Quote from article: But Kurths believes that ants are actually much more efficient at organizing data than a collective of human beings using the Internet could ever be, as he told the Independent:
Iād go so far as to say that the learning strategy involved in that, is more accurate and complex than a Google search. These insects are, without doubt, more efficient than Google in processing information about their surroundings. End quote.
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-01 00:52:00 UTC
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HEADLINE IN ALL CAPS (context tag in lower <start type=’Publication Style Post’>
HEADLINE IN ALL CAPS
(context tag in lower case) (audience tag) (importance tag)
Attribution to author if someone else.
Introduction / positioning.
—“block quotes”—
Closing.
Source link.
</end>
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-29 04:34:00 UTC
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customer journey diagram I produced was in 1990. I used it to revolutionize the
http://feedly.com/k/1kKsbhgFirst customer journey diagram I produced was in 1990. I used it to revolutionize the business. Growing 10x in two years. Illusion of competence evaporator.
:).
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 08:40:00 UTC
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A GOOD CEO MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE TAKING RISKS A good CEO makes you feel safe takin
A GOOD CEO MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE TAKING RISKS
A good CEO makes you feel safe taking risks in the interests of the company, and unsafe taking risks that do not. I tell people “I will not let you fail”. If they fail, I congratulate them on what they learned. The absence of failure: efficiency, is a chimera. If you aim for efficiency you will calcify your people, and your organization and it will not respond to the market.
Source date (UTC): 2014-05-26 02:23:00 UTC