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Procrastination
Kassen Qian and • 26 cards
Digital Human
Behruz Davletov and • 4 cards
His calculations showed that the information content of a message could not exceed the capacity of the channel through which you were sending it. Much in the same way a pipe could only carry so many gallons of water per second and no more, a transmission channel could only carry so many bits of information at a certain rate and no more. Anything be
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
In a smoothly-functioning System, the number of formal messages is near minimum. The tasks get done and the System moves on to new tasks. In contrast, a poorly-functioning System begins to generate increasing numbers of messages, often shaped around such questions as “What went wrong?”, “How far along is Task X?”, and especially, “Why don’t we have
... See moreJohn Gall • Systemantics. The Systems Bible
Knowledge Work
sari and • 63 cards
Cybernetics
Pedro Parrachia • 1 card