There will be no updates posted for Week 12 & 13. All ongoing progress will attributed to week 14. Progress resumes from week 14 due to a planned switch in study focus.
Concepts worked on:
Modality stemming from thinking style or emphasis.
Putting
st!OMPon a new pedestal!Understanding the project document processes.
- This week recognises the ‘Stakeholder’ persona as driven by the Zeitgeist (stakeholdership).
- Presumably we need to follow the IMRD format: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion
- Documenting Methods
| Action | Blocked By ~ Dependency |
Created | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reproducibility | Project Persona | Week 1 | Week 7 |
Isolate Meta Goals |
- | Week 8 | Week 14 |
| NLTK/spaCy | Week 9 | Week 14 |
Goal-setting, it was held, relied solely on motivation. The break through this week came from thinking about imperatives. Motivations can be fleeting and hard to pin down. Consequently trying to identify motivation is consuming more time than value delivered. In terms of project deliverables we want to see outcomes born of actions. There is noting to plan if the motivation is unclear. However, there is sufficient literature to support the idea that we deal instead with imperatives.
Imperatives support the
Engineering: Exploration Methods
A bulk of the exploration for this research comes from an approach used beyond the realm of study and work, where time and effort are devoted to designing, building, planning, and executing practical engineering tasks.
Projects such as a driveway built to code, an over-engineered pergola serving as a carport, a kitchen installation, and plastering after insulating and tanking a bathroom all require specialised skills in fields where learning through observation and hands-on experience is the norm. Ideally, this approach allows the observer to identify and build tacit knowledge and apply this orientation to other fields where access or the ability to trial and error is prohibited.
Recent builds include:
A semi-permeable driveway built to building regulations.
Pergola as a carport.
A kitchen installation, including screeded insulated flooring.
Underfloor insulation - suspended flooring.
Bathroom plastering (post insulation and tanking).
These projects require specialist skills in fields where learning by watching and doing is standard practice. However, there is an observable pattern that transfers well to broad engineering:
What transformation action is needed? (In an active tense and as a SMART goal).
Planning: Assess costs and resources.
Initiate a single task and evaluate the results.
Identify potential next steps.
Organise around the anticipated outcome and immediate requirements.
Resume with Step 3.
Conclude when enough work is completed to satisfy Step 1. (Happy with)
Assess how reliable step 2 was (Happy in)
We can draw parallels to job-seeking, where coaches and reference materials guide their audience, viewers, and subscribers. Here, unlike explicit knowledge, self-efficacy is more complex to assess.
Its important to introduce that the explorative approach used here comes from explorations I run outside of study, outside of work too, I build things, design stuff and practice engineering. A driveway built to building regulations, an over-engineered pergola as car port, a kitchen installation and currently plastering. These projects require specialist skills, and learning by doing is starndard in these fields.
Consider that, just as with research, there is a wealth of opportunities to access knowledge, which will only be expanded by the emergence of Artificial intelligence. That does not mean everything we meet is legitimate. However, our primate brain cannot quickly tell the difference. The world is at our doorstep. This study seeks to acknowledge this actively premising that the persona has self-efficacy; decisions are experience-driven based on what we see, understand (or feel).