Resource speak

Want to talk about something? Know the lingo.

lingo: Definitions of words and phrases as expressed in relationship to a specific topic.

This is true. Dilbert creator talks about speed being the new intelligence. So many games are just speed identification of some stimulus. it is not what problems you can figure out, it is how quickly you can identify a target and execute an action. That isn’t what he is talking about .He is talking about trial and error. “launch ugly and figure it out from there.” He means parallel testing.

The issue is resource management. If you have the resource to expend, in the case above, the clout to withstand the political fallout of several failed attempts to get one that works is the resource being expended.

Resource expenditure definitions

luxury: Resource you expend with little or no negative.

credit: Expend resources you have not acquired.

need: Resource you do not have and cannot acquire without opportunity cost or at all.

want: Resource you do not require that is expensive or out of reach.

prejudice: Filter for decision making (generic term for things like racism, sexism, zenophobia ...)

dream: Filter for decision making (as in “I dream of running a restaurant some day.”)

religion: Filter for decision making

manipulation: Getting someone to apply filters to make the decisions you want them to make.

politics: Act of becoming (or remaining) a manipulator.

trust: Basis for extending credit

happiness: No outstanding transactions

transaction: Exchange of resources based on perceived value

Speed is a resource sometimes called time. Quality is also a resource. They sometimes conflict. If you can get one without expending the other, please do.

I had an old manager many moons ago while working at a retail printing place. he would say “I have three things in every sail. Price, time and quality. You choose one. I chose the other two.” What he wanted was a world where if you wanted it fast, he chose the price and quality you paid.l if you wanted high quality, he chose the price and time you would get it. If you wanted low price, he chose the time and quality.

That was the best example of resource management I can think of.