Re:The Good Employee, a story about how you can explain comp...
by made2591 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @07:48AM
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Hi, all :-) I'm the author. First of all, thank you, everyone, for your comments and interests: they are really appreciated and I think everyone touched somehow different things I thought as well before publishing it.
Excluding the fact that it could be written differently, more concise, more clear, etc - by the way, thank you for links and suggestions as well - the overall idea behind this post was to provide a 50-50 footprint (both funny and serious) around the human behavior in a complex organization. I think the first sentence that gives the reader an idea of the context in which the post will be placed is in the "[..], because today if you don’t speak about data and models, nobody hears you." But... I didn't think a lot about this sentence, I think it was just for laziness, and I don't wanna give my opinion over this topic.
Back to the Prim behavior, I think this is all human and, by the way, shared across all people in every kind of organization, not only inside companies. I mean, not the algorithm, but - bringing it to the extremes - the human nature of being selfish. The idea of providing a high-level formalism to imagine a common scenario we all live every day came spontaneously to my mind, without being so convinced in the beginning. So I tried to figure out if the metaphor would have been a good fit for this idea I had in my mind. And this is it.
When I finished, I read it many times, and I know the feeling like "what the hell is saying? I'm confused" because I felt the same reading my old posts in the past... I'm not 100% sure, but I think I learned from myself that sometimes I feel good in thinking something simply are weird or difficult to understand. I think it has been, as many other times in the past, an unconscious part of my writing process: I like the idea of being a bit wrong, confused, misleading, just a bit, to give more freedom and let the people change their mind while reading. Being distracted, somehow, arise doubts.
I don't know if I could be able to formalize it in a better way like suggested by iciac, definitely, it wasn't my intention to provide scientific proof or anything mathematically correct as suggested by dvt - and I hoped that incompleteness feeling had explained this better than how much it actually had done - but... again, this is it :-)
And I hope you at least enjoyed this flight of fancy. For any questions, feel free to reach me here, by email, twitter, linkedin, etc.
Excluding the fact that it could be written differently, more concise, more clear, etc - by the way, thank you for links and suggestions as well - the overall idea behind this post was to provide a 50-50 footprint (both funny and serious) around the human behavior in a complex organization. I think the first sentence that gives the reader an idea of the context in which the post will be placed is in the "[..], because today if you don’t speak about data and models, nobody hears you." But... I didn't think a lot about this sentence, I think it was just for laziness, and I don't wanna give my opinion over this topic.
Back to the Prim behavior, I think this is all human and, by the way, shared across all people in every kind of organization, not only inside companies. I mean, not the algorithm, but - bringing it to the extremes - the human nature of being selfish. The idea of providing a high-level formalism to imagine a common scenario we all live every day came spontaneously to my mind, without being so convinced in the beginning. So I tried to figure out if the metaphor would have been a good fit for this idea I had in my mind. And this is it.
When I finished, I read it many times, and I know the feeling like "what the hell is saying? I'm confused" because I felt the same reading my old posts in the past... I'm not 100% sure, but I think I learned from myself that sometimes I feel good in thinking something simply are weird or difficult to understand. I think it has been, as many other times in the past, an unconscious part of my writing process: I like the idea of being a bit wrong, confused, misleading, just a bit, to give more freedom and let the people change their mind while reading. Being distracted, somehow, arise doubts.
I don't know if I could be able to formalize it in a better way like suggested by iciac, definitely, it wasn't my intention to provide scientific proof or anything mathematically correct as suggested by dvt - and I hoped that incompleteness feeling had explained this better than how much it actually had done - but... again, this is it :-)
And I hope you at least enjoyed this flight of fancy. For any questions, feel free to reach me here, by email, twitter, linkedin, etc.
Have a nice day :-)