Jan 30 2008 1:01PM GMT
Posted by: viip
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
Zen
Intelligent collaboration may have a connection to some degree to the advances or social pioneering conducted by intelligence agencies. There may even be some relation to evolving collaboration, or to evolving concepts of quality control (aka detection) and quality assurance (aka prevention), or to evolving dimensions of quality in terms of the value-inherent (intrinsic and pervasive) to the provision of cutting edge knowledge. Concurrently it may be possible to a degree that the advanced means by which to increasingly contribute to rebuilding the capacity for intelligent collaboration within and throughout our world and universe, may be connected and embedded within the global consciousness of our on-going evolution and the upwards and inwards continual rebuilding of worth, and joy. As we learn to look within we may even discover new means and increasingly enable the capacity to continually achieve unimagined levels of joy.
With hope of sharing potential words of wisdom that others may benefit from, this post encourages review of prior posts (e.g. i, ii) as well as the response indented below from a friend (a National Director of Audit, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management) when he was informed what would be enough for me to focus on research and blogging while living within the simplicity of a country setting (e.g., perhaps in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia). His response includes words once expressed to him by a well regarded person within a well regarded organization.
He once said that if you have something valuable to share, other than with your friends, you should always charge as much as is reasonable for this information, service, skill, etc., unless you are providing a goodwill gesture to a long established client. When one provides a “bargain rate” or offers something valuable for nothing, the majority of people, will not perceive the value of what they are receiving, take it for granted, and even dispose of it more readily than when they are paying for it.
You have a great deal to offer and as such, you should ensure that you are charging a reasonable rate. I don’t believe that amount is reasonable for your skills and believe you should put forth a higher rate that reflects the value of the services, operating costs, etc. and ensures you can maintain a standard of living that does not leave you open for some to take advantage of.
That said, if there is a higher cause or purpose (charity, friend, family member, desire to leave a legacy, etc.) then one can work for next to nothing knowing that the memory of what they created will someday benefit the world and be appreciated after their humble existence.
This is not intended to criticize but rather, look out for a friend in this often cruel world where honesty and humility gets taken advantage of by far too many people.
In hopes of sharing something thought provoking, indented below are a few words associated with rebuilding worth that are from Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Read them, buy the book, perhaps consider a purchase or think of ideas relative to Arrive Without Traveling, and then look within and do some thinking, for example along these lines {It is time to read Inherent Quality Simplicity; time for all to help creatively mature and innovatively embed the mindset; time to think about advances before, by and beyond 2020; time to think what to positively contribute towards helping to advance high purposes; time to think what you may enjoy the benefits of. Will the next part (3) of software and web quality further evolve joy and the joy of sharing thoughts and opinions with people through philosophical discussions and written exchanges in a manner that is increasingly direct and protecting? Would it help if knowledge exchange stated the contributor’s bio but not their name? Perhaps a future where all are more anonymous would have some benefits as all increasingly begin to more so let go of ego and increasingly move towards simplicity and just wanting to be of some service to the general idea of increasingly being of some help to the continual rebuilding of worth within society to higher and higher upwards and inwards dimensions so everyone more so will have ever-increasing levels of innate joy in life. In this way, perhaps we shall learn greater truths and overcome the hurdles of present realities in which a well regarded friend of a highly accomplished friend expressed that during his career he had learned that: giving too much for free often led to being taken advantage of; liberally sharing information with practice leaders, though perhaps noble, seemed to dilute its value. The way of the future is inherent to the rebuilding of individual worth, and as each of us discover this further, each may more so be supportive and committed to the success of more so enabling collective wisdom and related strategies that largely are embedded within the global consciousness of our evolution, and waiting for all to increasingly be part of the sea, sky and interconnected universe of enrichment and enlightenment so that there is more so an unlocking of true continual improvement which is far reaching and more so for the benefit and joy of all.}
Quality decisions change him too. And not only the job and him, but others too because the Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn’t think anyone was going to see is seen, and the person who sees it feels a little better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling on to others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep on going. My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that’s all. God, I don’t want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality out. These can be left alone for a while. There’s a place for them but they’ve got to be built on a foundation of Quality within the individuals involved. We’ve had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it, and now it’s just about depleted. Everyone’s just about out of gumption. And I think it’s about time to return to the rebuilding of this American resource — individual worth.
Note: feel free to replace American with Global, so this applies perhaps more so to all of humanity. Let’s continue with a few words from Pirsig’s ZAMM.
There are political reactionaries who’ve been saying something close to this for years. I’m not one of them, but to the extent they’re talking about real individual worth and not just an excuse for giving more money to the rich, they’re right. We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance and old-fashion gumption. We really do. I hope that in this Chautauqua some directions have been pointed to. Phaedrus went a different path from the idea of individual, personal Quality decisions. I think it was a wrong one, but perhaps if I were in his circumstances I would go his way too. He felt that the solution started with a new philosophy, or he saw it as even broader than that — a new spiritual rationality — in which the ugliness and the loneliness and the spiritual blankness of dualistic technology reason would become illogical. Reason was no longer to be “value free”. Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality, and he was sure he would find the cause of its not being so back among the ancient Greeks, whose mythos had endowed our culture.
In reality, quality is a personal journey and about helping others (e.g.). It may also be about increasingly realizing we are one, and therefore about increasingly acting as such. Perhaps wisdom flashes help. Perhaps there is wisdom all around us and we just have to be open to receive it.
Perhaps these words are relevant to the importance of casting light on matters of software, technology, information and life quality and value (even though these words are from a movie and different context, perhaps this will help achieve a lasting worldview and state of peace and joy like never before, perhaps this is the way it should be):
A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature. He must be captivated by the light. Always the light. Always.
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