We're building a tool to help people living near a forest to make a plan to harden their homes and property against wildfire risk.
This requires building many layers of information that doesn't currently exist.
1) Get the perimeter of the house mapped using public data.
Last night I was able to generate the latitude and longitude of the corners of the building as defined by Google Maps!
While not perfect, it's a start. AI and photos will refine that perimeter.
2) Add trees
The abstraction of "infidelity" does not have a place in certain types of minds.
It doesn't register.
There is no place to consider "OK" or "Bad" or "WTF?"
Those of us that do have that place in our minds to consider these sorts of abstractions are puzzled by those that don't.
Consider how NC Lt Gov Mark Robinson's email address was registered on Ashley Madison.
It doesn't matter to him.
Nor to his supporters.
It
Doesn't
Register.
If I use a word...
It means something.
I'm conveying my insight about how the world works or will be.
If my audience (friends, family) does not understand that word, I am not understood.
These are words that describe abstractions that I do not believe my audience understands:
- Data
- Trend
- Probability
- Policy
- Demographic
- Foundation
- Branch
- Endpoint
- Entity
- Alignment
- Governance
- Utilization
- Capacity
- Productivity
- Constraint
- Efficiency
- Accelerant
- Flow
- Concept
In my early 30's I was trained to use abstractions to think.
Before, I used intuition and looked for confirming evidence.
I struggled before I learned about abstractions.
I then built a career solving hard problems.
The problems were often created by people who could not use abstractions to understand what was happening to their business.
Now I realize that this "skill" is not shared by everyone.
I cannot use abstractions in an argument and succeed. They don't understand them.
So, let me get this straight.....
Hezbollah gets thousands of its people scrambled by hacked pagers.
Then, the very next day, they get say "Well, we didn't see that coming. Let's start using another electronic wireless device (with a rechargeable battery whose supply chain we haven't analyzed) to communicate. There's nothing to worry about with those, right?"
If laptops and cellphones start killing people on Thursday and then Friday ..... I dunno...
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