Oh, this is interesting. A U of M student applies knowledge on package engineering for the better of a product. Interesting, here, because as I’ve heard, much of these student’s struggles were already considered a solved problem many decades before. But, well… maybe it’s harder for someone who hasn’t done it before, even if it has been done before. A learning gap, or maybe the university education wasn’t as good as it could be, or it was more theoretical/philosophical rather than practical. The reasons can go on and on.
20180906/https://ccaps.umn.edu/story/package-makes-perfect
Single point of failure? What does Wikipedia have to say about that? Well, it’s kind of what you thought. The classic Wikipedia bias, focusing mainly on the computer aspects of single point of failure.
20180906/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure
But, interestingly, it also made reference to aspects of single point of failure in other professions, such as “intelligence,” in the government military sense. Edward Snowden called himself “a single point of failure” for lots of information. That is, the knowledge in question was possessed only by him.
20180906/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden
20180906/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Public_opinion_polls
Interestingly, there’s an entire Wikipedia article on “global surveilance,” mainly in terms of the government involvement of the mentioned subject.
20180906/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance
Google released this interesting “state of DevOps” report. A notable highlight of my personal interest: outsourcing. Interesting, the report states that the highest performers rarely outsource whole business functions, but rather only part of business functions, while the other part remains within the company. So, as it goes with outsourcing, the best companies are those that “outsource” mainly for greater coverage or capacity, not to run the business entirely for some particular sub-function.
20180906/https://cloudplatformonline.com/rs/248-TPC-286/images/DORA-State%20of%20DevOps.pdf
This is an interesting article about your personal thoughts and conceptions of other ending up subtly affecting their performance to fulfill your bias, regardless of whether it be true or not. Interestingly, although hard experimental results are proven with lab rats, and the same is believed to be true in education with humans, empirical studies with humans are still inconclusive toward supporting this hypothesis, and the results weren’t particularly strong.
20180907/https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/07/644530036/watch-can-you-affect-another-persons-behavior-with-your-thoughts
No, no, no. Now I have to fill in my experience about reading this subject. Indeed there were some empirical studies on this. However, the previous studies were more about imparting a growth mindset in the students or not. Yes, similar concept, but slightly different experimental implementation and resulting details.