#decision frameworks

[atozofsoftwareengineering]

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#agility #business #continuous learning #cross-functional collaboration #customer-centric #data-driven decisions #decision frameworks #Ethical Considerations #executive decision-making #feedback mechanisms #Innovation #IT leaders #Leadership #management #resource optimization #Risk management #scenario planning #stability #stakeholder communication #strategic alignment

[rotzaprachim]

I have a spicy little post in me about why “Zionist” and “terrorist” are two words we are all going to put on a little high shelf and collectively stop using until they stop being used by armed military organizations to justify the mass murder of civilian populations

#Words with already extremely messy origins and definitions that in #Recent history have shifted decisively not into meaninglessness but a broad overlapping framework of: #People that I think it is ok to kill/

[lord-squiggletits]

Something else that makes me sympathetic to Pharma's situation is like. Idk if there's an actual term for this or if someone smarter and more academic wrote it about some real life context that actually matters.

But, so we've already established among Pharma stans that the circumstances at Delphi were blackmail/torture with no real way out that wouldn't involve Pharma being responsible for people getting killed (either killing patients for the deal or having everyone die bc he failed his end of the deal).

And I feel like while "he's still in the wrong because he killed people" is part of it, another sort of implicit part is the idea that Pharma should've been willing to take more personal risk, maybe even risk dying? I mean, Ratchet does ask "why didn't you just detonate it near the DJD" (to which Pharma responds that he did try to get Sonic and Boom to do it, but they refused) so like

Idk I feel like we do have this social notion of martyrs as a very romantic ideal, people you can praise for being so brave and strong and righteous that they ended their own lives for their cause, while you can also coo about how sad and tragic it is that dying is what it took for them to do the right thing. But at the same time I feel like in reality, having an expectation that people become martyrs is kind of a toxic social norm bc like. It's very easy to demand that others sacrifice their lives for some Ultimate Moral Good when you yourself aren't experiencing the same hardships as they are. And ultimately it is kind of fucked up to tell someone "the moral thing you should've done was risk your life/kill yourself" because asking someone to pay their life to do the right thing is no small request. And sure, the typical response would be to call them a "coward" for caring more about saving their own skin instead of doing the right thing... but again, death is a really scary thing and self-preservation is a really strong instinct, so it kind of feels like having this binary view of "you're either a Brave Hero who sacrifices your life for everyone else or a Dirty Coward who's too scared of dying to do what's right" is kind of fucked up?

I guess the best way to describe it is that if someone willingly gives up their life as a sacrifice to others, it can be a noble thing because it's a choice they made willingly, but if it becomes a Moral Standard that in order to be a Good Person you have to be unafraid of throwing your life away and if you aren't willing to die you're a Cowardly Bad Person, that's when it becomes toxic.

Idk, I guess how this ties back to Pharma is that he was never in a position where he expected to make these kinds of moral decisions/ultimatums. He's a doctor who doesn't even get into combat, his job is to heal and not to kill, he's behind the front lines in a hospital that's supposed to be a safe, neutral place for him to heal people. So in the face of suddenly having a "murder people on behalf of me, or I murder everyone you swore to protect" ultimatum thrust upon him, I understand why Pharma wasn't """"""""""brave enough"""""""""" to "do the right thing" (whatever that would've been in the case of Delphi). You could argue that maybe a frontliner soldier accepted the burden of possibly dying for their cause and they've become used to it as someone who lives that reality every single day, but I feel like for Pharma, who's a doctor and a protected non-combatant (from what we can tell), that sort of risking of his life/living with the fact his life could be snuffed out any day isn't something he would've been prepared for at all.

And for me personally, from an outsider's perspective, it strikes me as kind of unethical to go "oh well he should've just detonated the bomb himself even if it killed him" bc again, there's a difference between witnessing a moral conundrum as a bystander versus being the person living with it and being under time pressure where it's do-or-die. Just as part of my personal standards, I feel like death is such a huge consequence/burden of someone's actions (literally you are no longer alive, any potential you had left is cut short, you cease to exist on this plane) that it feels rather callous to go "Well you should've just been willing to die for your beliefs if you really cared that much!!!"

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #this is only like tangentially related to pharma honestly #not to compare blorbos to real life but like. it reminds me of this phenomenon where privileged ppl in privileged countries #will tell ppl living in zones of war and strife 'oh well if you don't like your gov so bad just revolt against them' #like oh yes tell me how easy it is to stand up against the threats of torture and death #surely the only reason people would want to avoid that is bc they're cowards or don't want to stand up for their beliefs #contrary to what nationalism would have ppl believe. 'wanting to not die' isn't a moral position #everyone wants to live. no one wants to die. it doesnt make you a bad person to be scared of dying #esp (going back to blorbo's) in a situation like pharma's where every option he had ended in death #the death of his patients or the death of everyone at delphi or his death personally #on top of the fact he's a noncombatant who hasn't been desensitized to violence/risking his own life #and is dealing with a trained group of killers that he can't possibly match on physical terms #so yeah actually i don't blame pharma for what he did #he made shitty decisions in a shitty situation but was ultimately a victim #also if you want to view the blackmail deal from a framework of abuse #it is also fucked up to basically tell someone they werent brave enough to just kill their accuser or ask for help #isnt the entire point of such situations that the victim is both powerless to stop the abuse #and too afraid of asking for help/thinks they cant ask for help. and thats why they dont just get out #idk sometimes the best moral judgement is to forgive someone or view it as 'complicated' #sometimes regardless of the good or evilness of their actions the best choice is to not make a judgement #or to err in favor of a forgiving/'i cant speak for your experience' judgement #anyways the fact is that the rosy fantasy of being a brave noble soldier who sacrifices for the cause #rarely stands up to reality where youre just terrified and powerless and dont know what to do #and suddenly the rosy glow of The Noble Cause isnt comforting in the prospect of horrible torturous death

[dandelion-wings]

what do you headcanon the gunnhildr sibs preferences to be? personally i see jean as a cis pansexual and poly (because of you fics thanks for that btw) and barbara to be trans mtf and bisexual

I don't really have a solid headcanon for Jean's preferences beyond that she's into women--I can range anywhere from 'exclusively lesbian' to 'Kinsey-scale-3 bisexual' depending on the story I'm telling myself about her at the time? Like, I have headcanons that I'll flex for fic purposes, but this is more that the only headcanon I have in the first place is that she likes women, and the rest is a nice muddy shape around it. (A muddiness I often like to roll in!) Similarly, I like to write her as poly, but it's not really a 'headcanon' per se, it's just how I like to write her. XD As for gender, though, while this post starts about Kaeya I basically cover it here: technically she's cis in that she's not seeking not to be a woman, but I don't think the axis upon which Jean identifies has anything to do with gender. She'd describe herself as a Gunnhildr and as a knight, as opposed to a civilian, but she wouldn't put 'woman' in a self-description because it's very minimally relevant to how she thinks about herself.

I don't really have strong headcanons about Barbara, because I haven't thought about her from those angles so much; my defaults for her are cis woman and wlw, but I haven't really focused in on either aspect when writing or thinking about her. I definitely can see where an MtF reading would be fun, though, especially in light of a headcanon I do have, wherein the Gunnhildrs are matrilineal. (I mean, the fact that the only four we know the names/identities of are all women could just be coincidence, there's only four we know at all, but 'that's because the men are all married out to other families' is more fun to me. XD) The tensions that would add to her existing family situation--trying to prove herself when she was still a Gunnhildr, being thrust out of the family when her parents divorced (and her father being allowed to take her)--in tragic but interesting ways!

#i feel like i quibble over the meaning of 'headcanon' a lot answering this kind of thing XD;; #but basically a headcanon to me is a structure i use to fill an empty space in the lore/narrative #with such consistency that when telling myself stories it's an underlying part of the framework just as canon is #and i'm making a conscious decision for narrative purposes when i depart from it in a given story #but i like to tell myself lots of different stories and things that change easily as part of that variety aren't headcanons to me #e.g: since jean is my bicycle for this fandom her sexuality isn't because it depends on what story i want to tell with her that day #asked and answered #someone please give jean a nap #sing me a song barbara

[gideonisms]

I think the thing about ntn is, it's like making a friend who you broadly agree with on the most important things but who you HARD disagree with on some of the details

#ntn spoilers #i'm at the point where i can have actual opinions now i think. #paul. paul. #i loved the campal tragic moment i loved everything with pyrrha and nona's reluctance to remember the ways she'd been hurt the #compartmentalizing of identity the acknowledgement that sometimes we just are going to become someone vastly different #the question of whether love can overcome that or why love matters if everything's just going to change and end and restart again #and the conclusion that it did matter because it mattered in the moment #love as this huge imperfect force of acceptance for others vs love as a determination to cling to them the way you think they should be #all of that was so good #even the stuff with gideon kind of. felt like it belonged in a different book but i agree with the broad character strokes of like #the horror of what's been done to gideon the way she is trying to become a different person making her own terrible decisions etc #but still trapped in this awful framework for her life & death where she only matters as a symbol for others #and her reckoning with that is messy and awful bc of course it is! #but it did feel like it needed more space than the brief chapters we got & hopefully it will come to the forefront in the next book #like all of the elements didn't necessarily mesh well and i think the humor she was trying to go for with the silly name didn't really work #and the stuff with judith was like. the most boring way to handle that imo. did she have to be unconscious the whole book #she's got so much potential as a character #and! my top pet peeve when harrow lobotomy girl nonagesimus is like i'm going to find the real god you suck #iconic yes but it reveals #she's had the agency to walk away from john the whole book and has sat there listening and now is going to find alecto when? #like?? #the point of the lobotomy was that she is rejecting the framework for her previous life bc she's decided she cares more about the human cost #like??????? #if she was just sort of drifting in the river having alecto's dreams that's one thing but i refuse to believe #she wouldn't be trying to figure out where gideon was the whole time #maybe if she hadn't done the lobotomy i would buy it but she did do the lobotomy!!!!! she literally did do the lobotomy #you have to do a lot of work to get harrow from only caring about gideon's life and i guess religion kind of to just hitting pause on #thinking about gideon for an entire book! #this is not even my shipper brain it makes sense gideon has other priorities is in mourning for her previous self the things she's lost etc #but harrow literally did the lobotomy if u needed to get her to the 9th for plot reasons there were better ways to explain it!!

[knittinglizards]

i think in addition to the obvious limiting factor of the writers' politics and biases, the stories in star trek (tos at least, the only other series i know is tng and i don't remember it well at all) that deal with oppression and Space Racism tend to be flimsy at best at least partly bc of the Choice to claim that oppression just doesn't exist on earth in the 23rd century (wild!) and that they generally portray the alien cultures relevant to the story in particular as entirely monocultural (just kinda lazy writing imo and denies any significant sense of historical conflict/makes the violence they try to present seem petty)

#p #star trek #st tos #last episode i watched last night was the monochrome people one. it isn't good #i think the deal w platos stepchildren was the best attempt ive seen largely bc of how much it focuses on alexander #and lets him speak and make his own decisions about the situation (NOT TYPICAL FOR THESE GUYS) #and that's more informed by ableism and bullying generally than anything else. so race in particular is still a Huuuuuuuge blind spot #phrasing it kindly a lot of it is outright regressive. part & parcel of working happily in a colonialist framework

[clitfisto]

ok i guess im posting my dnd opinions today. alignment as a system is so fickle and debated because the average ttrpg player is not somebody who is interested in philosophical theory, let alone an in-depth discussion of morality, so defining both the good/evil and chaotic/lawful spectrums is fucking difficult because NOBODY here is equipped to answer questions like "what is evil?" let alone "what makes a person Inherently Evil or Inherently Good", and the fact that the average dnd group would need to satisfactorily ANSWER those questions in order to rules-lawyer certain spells/items/abilities is absolutely fucking ridiculous

#and thats not even touching on how ridiculous lawful/chaotic is #like i just use it as a legalist/anarchist scale but some other definitions get really fucking esoteric really quick #the most common one ive seen is lawful means having a personal code you use to make decisions while chaotic means not doing that ig #but now youve defined it as having literally any ideology at all which. everything is ideological all the time always. #like am i lawful for being an anarchist? #its an internal code i follow so by popular definition it would make me lawful right? nvm that the code is a rejection of laws as authority #like it just makes no goddamn sense but thats what people come up with when they dont have the mental frameworks to actually discuss this #and someone notices that legality and morality are attached to 2 different axes even though authoritarian society says theyre the same thing #you get answers like ''well clearly lawful doesnt mean literally actually law-abiding because how could the law be evil?'' #its. why the fuck is something so subjective and conceptually advanced still a core mechanic of the worlds most popular ttrpg #it doesnt HELP except for establishing the bare bones of ''your character should have a personality and it should affect their choices''

[twist-dg]

Suit & Tie - HS Discord Monthly Prompt

#my art #loz #loz art #tloz fanart #legend of zelda #loz oc #link oc #alr so I’ve been thinking #and after totk (slight spoilers in these tags btw) #so since Divinity is sorta confirmed non-canon now #I’ve decided to remove him as the pre-botw hero #and just make him a oc :] #I am!! indeed fleshing out a full story #sapphire is obviously apart if this too #I’ve got the framework planned out so far which is great! #part of me really wants to make this a comic #but at the same time #THE EFFORT #I’ll finish planning the story before I make that decision #could be fun tho!

[myfanfictiongarden]

Finally came around to see The Green Knight (2021).

...oh my god...

....WHAT A MOVIE!!!!!

#I know the story happens around Christmas... #... but it fit so well for Lent? #seriously- if you change Christmas morning into Easter morning its perfect #not that the movie isn't perfect #its insane how brilliant it is! #I´m speechless #the whole framework of Gawayn “not ready” to become a knight #the quest that he has to go on #all the encounters he has along the way #the vision he has & his final decision #omg #what a movie #things i like #movies #the green knight

[thankstothe]

but would cuno do this?

#framework to run important decisions by #cuno #disco elysium

[lonesomedotmp3]

"control, baby, it can be controlled. so give me back the story." well that's crazy!

#hate how badly my seminar for this flopped no one wanted to actually like. talk about it #not even my professor 😭 after like ten seconds of silence he was like yeahhhh I'm not putting this on the syllabus next year 😕 dude... #ok I guess that's not true it's more everyone wanted to talk about it against a very particular framework which i didn't necessarily #disagree with it was just like. very decisive and I felt like it instantly closed any proper discussion we could have had #especially because the professor (who is great! and again I don't disagree w the interpretation!) himself was like oh yeah this book sucks #and is deeply conservative and we can acknowledge that #and it's like ok but maybe we could still talk about it. and talk about it a bit beyond that or in more depth #also this is something that has annoyed me about him before he has this really frustrating perception of themes surrounding women #and violence against them/misogyny/etc as like. trite and banal #like w rosemary's baby. he's like oh that's obvious we don't need to talk about it. #like. ok. I don't understand why ever ever dissecting how women are framed in a story is so boring for you #he almost always uses racial frameworks to discuss and I think that's extremely valuable #and important to the works we look at but like. why is that always deep and interesting and revelatory but #discussing women (or hatred of women) is innately shallow. :/ #sorry that's only very tangential to what I quoted it's just something I've been thinking about a lot since the start of term #especially after rosemary's baby. like I'm sorry not talking at all about female autonomy etc during that was insane.

[omegaphilosophia]

Enhancing Everyday Conversations: Applying Logic for Effective Communication

Logic is a powerful tool that can greatly enhance our everyday conversations. By employing logical frameworks and models, we can construct sound arguments, analyze information, resolve disagreements, and foster a deeper understanding of various topics. In this blog post, we will explore some valuable models and frameworks that can assist us in using logic effectively during our conversations, promoting rational discourse and critical thinking.

Socratic Method: Uncovering the Truth through Inquiry- The Socratic Method, named after the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, involves the art of asking insightful questions to stimulate critical thinking. By engaging in thoughtful questioning, we can challenge assumptions, identify inconsistencies, and encourage a deeper examination of our beliefs and reasoning. This method helps us navigate conversations with intellectual curiosity and promotes logical analysis.

Toulmin Model: Constructing and Evaluating Arguments- The Toulmin Model provides a structured approach to constructing and evaluating arguments. Its elements include the claim (the main statement), grounds (supporting evidence), warrant (connecting the claim and grounds), backing (additional support), qualifier (specifying the strength of the argument), and rebuttal (addressing counterarguments). By employing the Toulmin Model, we can formulate logical arguments and critically assess the strength and validity of others' arguments.

Rhetorical Appeals: Balancing Emotions, Credibility, and Logic- Rhetorical appeals, comprising ethos (credibility), pathos (emotions), and logos (logic), are persuasive tools that help us communicate effectively. While emotions and credibility play important roles in conversations, incorporating logical appeals allows us to present sound reasoning, evidence, and logical coherence. By striking a balance between these appeals, we can influence others through rational persuasion.

Argument Mapping: Visualizing Logical Structures- Argument mapping involves visually representing the structure of an argument using diagrams or software tools. This approach helps us visualize the logical flow of information, identify premises and conclusions, and evaluate the strength and coherence of an argument. Employing argument mapping can bring clarity to complex discussions and facilitate a more systematic evaluation of ideas.

Decision-Making Models: Weighing Options with Logic- Decision-making models, such as cost-benefit analysis, SWOT analysis, or decision trees, integrate logical reasoning to assess options and make informed choices. By applying these models, we can organize relevant information, consider different factors, and weigh the pros and cons based on logical evaluation. These frameworks enable us to make decisions that align with our goals and values.

Critical Thinking Frameworks: Nurturing Rational Discourse- Critical thinking frameworks, such as Bloom's Taxonomy or Paul-Elder's Model of Critical Thinking, provide a structured approach to developing and applying critical thinking skills. These frameworks guide us in analyzing information, evaluating evidence, and constructing logical arguments during conversations. By cultivating critical thinking skills, we can engage in more meaningful and intellectually stimulating discussions.

By incorporating logical models and frameworks into our everyday conversations, we can elevate the quality of our communication. The Socratic Method encourages inquiry and critical thinking, while the Toulmin Model assists in constructing and evaluating arguments. Rhetorical appeals help us balance emotions, credibility, and logic, ensuring persuasive effectiveness. Argument mapping aids in visualizing logical structures, decision-making models facilitate informed choices, and critical thinking frameworks nurture rational discourse.

#Logic in conversations #Critical thinking skills #Rational discourse #Effective communication #Socratic Method #Toulmin Model #Rhetorical appeals #Argument mapping #Decision-making models #Critical thinking frameworks #Logical reasoning #Constructing arguments #Analyzing information #Resolving disagreements #Influential persuasion #Visualizing logical structures #Informed decision making #Rationality in conversations #Productive discussions #Intellectual curiosity #philosophy #epistemology #knowledge #learning #education #chatgpt

[judasvibe]

individualists who are convinced they're collectivists are absolutely insufferable, the most cult-like, easily manipulated midwits

#babygirl you are doing you just as much as that evil selfish person you are criticizing #you just are too fragile to stand by your decisions on that basis and need a framework to assign virtue to them #free yourself

[psalmsofpsychosis]

okay so i have read a lot of stories during my life, but there have been few stories whose protagonist i wanted to save from the story the way i want to save Anakin from star wars and star wars fans alike. like, the way star wars and its fans are hellbent on misunderstanding Anakin is kind of exceptional in very fucked up ways. Greg Lickass sat to write a story about a boy who points out that the emperor, in fact, is not wearing clothes, but he was so afraid of the story himself that he ended pointing a finger and saying "yeah, the boy is the villain here". And then you get Filoni doing a whole 7 seasons of targeted character assassination by painting Anakin as this irrational, HeebyJeeby-driven nonsensical person who's Born Evil And Will Become It Anyway, It's Just A Matter Of Time. Everything happening in legends more or less builds up on that foundation, and the fans often add the "he's simply evil there's nothing to it" explanation as the cherry on top.

And i mean, one day i'll finish my anakin essay and post it, but until then, i'll just sit in this corner and think about how differently Anakin would've been treated by fans if he was a woman. Because a lot of you seem to be blind to how feminine his traits of "divine madness" are, just the way Luke is such a feminine-coded character. Like, y'all wouldn't stand for the way the majority of fandom writes him if he was a woman, but he's not, so you dont see the fucked up way that his character is stripped of all nuance and depth and complexity and simply portrayed as "an irrational, borderline-comical presence that Just Feels Things And Acts Stupid About It".

#i have so much to say about Anakin i'm bursting at the seams #but at the same time i went over all the details on discord one time so my brain considers the case done and closed so i can't be assed #to sit and type it all again lmao #but yeah. Anakin as a character only makes sense in the framework of emotional landscapes and terrible love and crimes of passion #but lucas and filoni have not felt a single emotion in 89 years i wouldn't expect them to pull this off anyway #but the way fans just eat up the whole ''he's volatile and mindless and nonsensical'' thing is very annoying #like. you do realise that he's a feminine-coded character right?? YOU DO REALISE THAT HIS DECISIONS ARE ALL ROOTED #IN WHAT HE CONSIDERS LOVE RIGHT???? #YOU DO REALISE THAT HE'S VERY EMOTIONALLY DRIVEN RIGHT??????? #like the way people accept the shittiest interpretations about Anakin just because he doesn't have a vagina. it's baffling to me

[bict]

I sometimes forget that Marvel movies are actually superhero action movies. I’m just like oh look at my lovely blorbos and that’s it. The marvel characters are my little dolls and in this dollhouse we are performing a romantic comedy

#blorbos my beloved #steve rogers my beloved #rom com with an action backdrop #marvel #mcu #same vibes as those post that are like #the author has provided the framework but we'll take it from here #thank you and goodbye #steve rogers #bucky barnes #natasha romanoff #the avengers #fanfic can replace bad storyline decisions in canon in my mind #looks aggressively at endgame steve's ending

[sanerontheinside]

☕️ tragedies

I will always be a tiny lost thing crying at the unfairness of an uncaring universe. Tragedies are a three course meal of fic potential. They are everything. Fixit gold. Time travel or reincarnation/do-overs. Canon divergence. Total au’s with other worlds and other rules.

There are such good tragedies, too. The ones where the story beats all point to this awful final moment and the end is satisfying, even if it breaks your heart. You can fix it! You can definitely… do … that. But part of you doesn’t want to, because the story works so well as it is. Those need serious au’s, a divergence a good long while back. Or some other delicate manipulation. (I really do have some things I find difficult to write fic for, because the story just works so well as it is.)

Tragedy is delicious, even as a spice. If it lurks in the background, you can set it against the story you are telling in the foreground, and make it all the more important that the ending is a happy one.

[send me ☕️ + [topic] and i’ll tell you my opinion on it!]

#but if you step outside of the framework of actually writing stories and instead consuming them #tragedies are sometimes lessons in what not to do and what misfortune not to court #and sometimes they are lessons in survival - how much are you willing to give to survive before you lose yourself #hold a person up to an unforgiving light and strip away every bit of hesitation #decisions good or bad or impulsive or stupid or simply unavoidably fated #some are lessons in that awful thing - the ‘you can do everything right and still lose it all in the end’ #those suck. BUT #if you really settle down to think about what you remember best from history #it’s not *really* the good parts #it’s those parts that leave you aching and wishing things had gone a different. better way #a dull kind of pain. a grief full of all the good things that never got a chance to happen #triumph is good it is always a wonderful thing to celebrate #but you had to triumph *over* something in the first place #and that something had a cost #this is the reason we say things like ‘never forget’ #I think despite that we do forget #there’s only so much you can carry with you #but that’s what the stories are for