The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf]

Slightly tangential, does anyone remember who was the (German Professor?) guy who has spoken/written about computer (file) organisation, and has proposed a way to organise files?

I seem to remember he said he could save tens of minutes of the user everyday by seeing how someone uses the computer. It was not the Zettelkasten or the Dewey Decimal System but those topics were also possibly discussed in that hackernews thread.

Russell Ackoff's lectures are always a great listen, and worth relistening to each year. If I recall correctly he used to work at Bell Labs...

A starting point: https://youtu.be/yGN5DBpW93g

Interesting to realize "clinician" is nowadays usually in a medical context -- but nonetheless, this paper's pure categorization of problem solving was prophetic of mainstream medicine's hubris and incentives: > "Groups, like individuals, tend not to be aware of what they do not know and need to know."

And, > "Such discussions are more likely to suppress symptoms than relieve ailments."

Quite good read. I'm going to print this out.

very good writing. it is still relevant considered it was written 44 years ago. but we are in the age of AGI now, do we still need this? I am sure this one has been used already by several Large LLM as training materials.