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About meetings

“All meetings are about finalizing meeting protocols.”

Is there a something different from Claude Shannon’s law to describe the ratio between actual discourse and discussions about the discourse? For instance, the time spent discussing meeting procedures rather than getting on with it. It’s different from noise.

See pp. 28-32 of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, United Stated War Department, Strategic Services Unit. 

Claude Shannon’s Information Theory Explained

Claude Shannon first proposed the information theory in 1948. The goal was to find the fundamental limits of communication operations and signal processing through an operation like data compression. It is a theory that has been extrapolated into thermal physics, quantum computing, linguistics, and even plagiarism detection. 

The kindest people are not born that way, they are made. They are the souls that have experienced so much at the hands of life, they are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson. The kindest people do not just exist – They choose to soften where circumstance has tried to harden them, they choose to believe in goodness, because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary. They have seen firsthand why tenderness is so important in this world.

–Bianca Sparacino

Tended to my succulents today, among other things. Also visited with the folks and made sure their iPhones were no longer sending SOS Emergency updates. Drove downtown to pick up some candies. Worked on the dissertation for a few hours. I felt productive today. But, I’m really happy to see that this little succulent from Trader Joe’s has grown tremendously over the last few months (after and before pics attached)