the relevance of Business School, to Education in General : a brief introduction

/ the relevance of Business School, to Education in General : a brief introduction /

"Business" schools treat management as the question, "what should we do?" (tEQ). This, as Drucker and Deming noted, depends on "what can we count?" (tOQ), about things in an environment defined by "property rights".

"Philosophy" traditionally is just a superset of that : where the ontological question (tOQ), and the ethical question (tEQ), are applied to all human activities, regardless of concerns about property rights.

"What do we teach people at each stage of life?" is basically (tEQ:E), the  question of educational ethics. And the answers to this are largely dependent on, (tOQ:C) the question, "what is a citizen?", and (tEQ:C) "what do we expect from citizens?".

You may notice that we jumped from education, to citizenship, so what about non-citizens? Valid question - and a quick tie around that is to say, we simply define for the purpose of this discussion, CITIZEN, as any entity in our environment, regardless of classification under labels which denote different rights and obligations. So now (tOQ,tEQ:C) can apply to rocks, trees, chickens, humans, bots, corporations, and nationstates.

This is trivia, but maybe it'll help someone understand how to link together 

• 1. STEM, 
• 2. commerce 
• 3. the humanities, and 
• 4. the overarching architecture of how education ( syllabi, public policy, etc. ) is governed

:) 

(relationships) seriously ...

What is a "serious" relationship?

I run into this question a lot. Some people define it as (A) a feeling of commitment or interest, but I prefer the notion of (B) explicit terms and conditions.

So my serious relationships, are not what most people consider serious relationships. And vice versa.

I think commonly, folks adopt model A, but mix in a bit of model B with it. I think this is fundamentally contentious. You cannot commit to both terms and conditions, and feelings which may waiver. Although it is SHIPPED as a mix of A and B, it reduces to A by priority.

Most people, to me, are not serious about relationships :)

social life optimisation parameters

Working on optimising my social allocation framework, in between sets at the "gym". It always amuses me to read about people searching for social relations based on intellectual compatibility. Most of the socially interesting people I meet are just cute and nearby.

I suppose I started deweighting intellectual compatibility around 2001 because I just didn't find people in college who were working on the same stuff as I was. I think as I progressed to study commerce, I had a few narrow intellectual compatibilities with various people based on the nature of their work - but in their lives outside of work, we might not have had much in common to talk about.

I will think about this some more. On one hand, it is nice to have a social life based simply on the cute people nearby. On the other hand, maybe I should spend less time on that, when it does nothing for my work interests in global macro, physiology, and computation.