A Complexity of Human Needs to Be Met
Getting to the Measurables
In my previous post I started to break down definitions, attributes, and statements that describe “world-classiness” in engineering.
Is world-class engineering as simple as measuring metrics from the research book Accelerate? I definitely think the evidence shows those measures put many engineers and organizations ahead of the game. (See chart below.)
Can We Measure “World-Classiness” and What Attributes Do World-Class Engineers, Team, and Orgs Have? — Part I
Right before the new year the company I work for made an announcement about a shift in ownership. As my friends and I run through what might change as things move forward I wanted to gain clarity about a particular idiom that has been mentioned.
How might we get down to brass tacks and define what a “world-class engineering organization” is? How might we begin to measure something that, at first glance, is imprecise and qualitative?
What attributes make something world-class?
I want to understand the language of “world-class engineering” on a deeper level.
I see meaning and understanding as a structure of relational operators in our language and in our minds.
To…
Last night in my dreams
I heard that which
I've been longing to hear
The Apology.
I heard you speak out
Speak it
Felt it
Saw the credit flow
From your hand
From your mouth
Your breath and mine
For what I did
Have sacrificed
The bonds that were
Built around our very core
My voice, My breath, My energy
I felt the basest bond release
And it felt like heaven
Seeing you again
Seeing the real you
Feeling free again
Speaking to myself
My indigenous self
Gtong Len
A wise and foreign facet
With whom I will travel again
…
Each morning
I wake
Finding myself
Missing
An Illusion
Feeling around
For some
Radiance
To gently
Cozy up to
Expecting…
Something
To change
To fall back
Into the dreams
I’ve…
I don't believe in soulmates
It's a lot of lot of lies
No
I used to
Once upon a time
I do believe
In The Dark Knight of The Soul
make love to the world
fall in love with existence
every moment
a sacred prayer
empty and silent
every moment filled
with bubbling laughter
erupting
[un]bidden
from your lips
make…
i will greet you
at the end
without fear
with love
held close
ringing in
an empty vessel
waiting
in fullness
of time
i'll meet you
there now
out beyond
right and wrong
away from the things of man
oh! love
let us
away from the things of man
where all round
the other side
yawns nothing
resting quiet between the roar
the eye inside our sound and light
Yours Truly
&
Let’s Have a Conversation About It
As I’ve been talking to friends about what goes into World Class Engineering and sitting with some of the implications my mind has been spinning around concepts of trust. I’ve got some ideas and want to explore them.
I think that as humans we struggle with trust in a lot of different ways. We struggle to understand what trust is, how to build it, and what to do about it when it has been broken.
We can break trust with ourselves.
When we break our own trust its usually through not listening to our own concerns, counter arguments, and thoughts that run through our minds in…
let the soft rain fall
— — -this mourning
and the birds call
— — -from deep within the trees
gliding slowly out
— — -on whispered need
or peeking from beneath
— — -the thorny rose
caught in the quails nest
— — -overgrown with weeds
sitting in the quiet revery
— — -of an empty flower pot
01/2021
J. D. Carlston
Human hacking the boundaries of experience. Creatrix in the Matrix wending wyrd. Twitter:@jdcarlston, IG:@r0zm4ddr, (they)
