[ba-unrev-talk] Fw: [unrev-II] Dervin and Sense-Making
Gil Regev wrote:
>So sense-making alone cannot tell you when
> to apply sense-making nor when to stop applying it. (01)
Very interesting. (02)
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How long did you spend trying to make sense of that?
Why (or why not)? (04)
Cheers,
Peter (05)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gil Regev" <gil.regev@epfl.ch>
To: <unrev-II@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: RE: [unrev-II] Dervin and Sense-Making (06)
> > So I guess a moral of the tale might be:
> > Don't go loopy, unless it's one you can stop.
> > (Good advice for programmers at least.)
>
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
>
> Peter,
>
> This reminds me of Gerald Weinberg's "banana principle". The banana
> principle is so called because of a little boy who said: "Today we learned
> how to spell 'banana,' but we didn't learn when to stop." Generalizing
this
> statement Weinberg concludes that, "Heuristic devices don't tell you when
to
> stop." Which means that for instance "Mechanics alone cannot say which
> system will yield to mechanical analysis. Mathematics cannot tell us the
> range of successful application." So sense-making alone cannot tell you
when
> to apply sense-making nor when to stop applying it.
>
> Geral M. Weinberg, An introduction to General Systems Thinking, Wiley
1975,
> p. 55
>
> Gil
> (07)