Every institution has a ghost. And no, not the Halloween kind. The kind made of old habits, old fears, old rituals and old incentives. The kind that politely swallows our best reform ideas time and again.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/designing-with-ghosts-a-practical?r=6l8ed8
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Project 2025: Trump’s Second Term Not-So-Secret Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUJSEvYIiy8
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Trump: “Reduce, Reduce Regulation Without Sense & Purpose Now!” Leave It To The Corporations…
https://medium.com/@silkester/trump-reduce-reduce-regulation-without-sense-purpose-now-leave-it-to-the-corporations-6edec1152994
#Corruption #Trump #Project2025 #Agenda47 #Government #Politics #Institutions #Nepotism #institutionalMemory #failedNations
So once a year I'm called in for regression, because though other people have tested it---and I trained almost all of them--no one has all of it. It's not that I actively and proactively remember everything--that's why I keep my own documentation--but because I can tell when something is Eh, That Happens, Wrong Check This, Wrong Okay Get the Devs, or Oh God Nope Call Everyone Now when inevitably, a test fails.
#InstitutionalMemory is remembering the context of how complex systems interact.
One of the things that people watching the real time breakdown of twitter but don't ever seem to get is that #institutionalmemory isn't about having enough documentation, comments, test and dev history on the code, database, infrastructure; most places do have that.
Its about the practical real tie knowledge of how those things actually interact in real time.
I am institutional memory for several parts of the programs we test. I was not just the first tester; I sat in on design sessions.
Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling
I worked for several decades at a large petrochemical company. In the early 1980s, we designed and built a plant that refines some hydrocarbon type stuff into other hydrocarbon type stuff. Over the next thirty years, institutional memory of this plant faded to a dim recollection. Oh, it still operates, and still makes money for the firm. Day to day maintenance is performed, and the skilled local crew is familiar with the controls, valves, safety systems, and other such.
But the company has forgotten how it really works. ...
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