Sunday, August 22, 2004

Primordial Construct: Alvin Toffler's Preconditions for Change

Old
«
Change
Δ
New
»

Model
N
External Pressure
Plan
Coherence
Vision
+
Internal Pressure
Alternative
$


Alvin Toffler was the architect for the breakup of the American telephone company monopoly, in which he proposed three preconditions for change. First, external pressure from competition. Second, internal pressure from dissatisfaction. And third, "a coherent alternative embodied in a plan, a model, or a vision."1

A plan is a step by step process indicative of deductive reasoning, a vision is a pattern indicative of inductive reasoning, and a model is an imagined state, like a role model, indicative of associative reasoning.
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1Toffler, Alvin. The Adaptive Corporation. Bantam, New York, 1985. pp. xxi-xxii.

Primordial Construct: Quarks


«

Δ

»

Top
(Truth)
N
Up
Strange
(Sideways)

Charm
+
Down
Bottom
(Beauty)
$

Primordial Construct: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

The constellation of human needs was categorized by American psychologist Abraham Maslow in a theory of human motivation. Although he organized needs in a hierarchy, modern research finds no empirical evidence to support this aspect of his theory. So we’ll dispense with a hierarchical arrangement. Instead, let’s line the needs up in parallel with the familiar human dimensions of mind, body, heart, and soul to clarify each of Maslow’s categories.

Been
«
Being
Δ
Becoming
»

Esteem
N
Others
Safety/Security
Actualization
Social
+
Self
Physiological
$


Death
«
Life
Δ
Birth
»

Spirit
N
Others
Mind
Soul
Heart
+
Self
Body
$


Physiological needs are needs of the body like food, shelter, clothing, and sex. Social needs are needs of the heart like love, belonging, and intimacy. Esteem needs are needs of the spirit like confidence, respect, and morality or ethics. Safety and security needs are defenses of the mind like will power directed toward protection against war, crime, disease, starvation, and poverty. Actualization needs are needs of the soul to develop our full potential, which is often a struggle that engages all the resources at our disposal directed toward satisfying all the other needs.

Thursday, August 12, 2004

Primordial Construct: Law of the 7 Cs

Convention
«
Contemporary
Δ
Confirmation
»

Confidence
N
Conversion
Competition
Coherence
Cooperation
+
Conviction
Context
$


How many Cs do you count? Ten? Me too. But this was the first iteration of the Primordial Construct, and the top row was missing back then. It had a nice ring to it so I never changed the name.

The difference between the light from a lamp and the light from a laser is coherence.