I'm continuing to catch up on things (more of why later, me thinks) and yes, I'm on a KBar kick. This one deals with something few non-technical people or investors will care about, me thinks; SCO files for Chapter 11. Why am I posting about it here?
This post has little to do with SCO filing for Chapter 11. I barely know who or what SCO is. My fascination comes from a couple of lines in the article, "No business strategy is more time-honored than using a sleepy Friday afternoon to drop some seriously bad news on investors, ...". Switch "investors" with ...oh... anything else and you have something I hear often from people. "How come (some company) sends you these notices on a Friday afternoon when you can't do a thing about it? You can't call because the offices are closed, ..." and so it goes.
There is a rule in psychotherapy that I apply in my work and it goes something like this. Person A says "You never listen to me." This is usually an inaccurate statement. However, if Person A's belief is "You never listen to me" then the problem scope has changed greatly.
It could be that Person A is truly delusional. Okay. Knowing that definitely narrows the solution path.
It could be that Person A's experience is such that whomever they're communicating with so seldom responds that the result is similar to a mathematical "lim" problem, as in
meaning over a sufficiently long period of time, t, Person A's experience is that they are being heard, H, far less often than they are speaking (unity, or "1", symbolizing that each time they speak they are heard, or a 1:1 S(peak):H(eard) relationship exists) that their overall experience of being heard, Eh, is so greatly unsatisfactory that, in the vernacular, it greatly sucks, -¥.
(for those whose browsers don't show math characters, the above equation reads as "The limit as t approaches infinity of H is greatly less than 1, such that the sum of Esubh is negative infinity)
Hard to believe there are still people out there who believe it is impossible to mathematize human emotions, experience, cognition, and so on, isn't it?
This is all interesting to me because NextStage makes its money by understanding how, when, where, why, what causes and between whom communications work and don't.
And (surprise!) we have the models to prove it.
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