Excerpts from Wikipedia on "Idolatry":
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God. Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary.— Leviticus 26:1–2, King James Bible
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church:The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, "the honor rendered to an image passes to its prototype," and "whoever venerates an image venerates the person portrayed in it." The honor paid to sacred images is a "respectful veneration," not the adoration due to God alone:Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is.[79]It also points out the following:Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc.[80]
Are You in your audience? Are you also watching your General Peer watching you in the chorus?
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Still... cannot wrap my head around Ideator position. :-(
I think I perfectly understand position of Specialist. Which can always hide behind "It's not my expertise". And I was on that position myself.
And I understand position of Middle Manager. Which any time can say "that's not me! that is that lazy bums(Specialist) did not did their work".
But...
what about Ideator?
One who would connect all dots. Keep in his head EVERYTHING about and around project.
Like for example Apollo project -- who was Ideator there?
There was lots of specialists: mathematics, ingeneers, psychologists even.
But...
there MUST be someone, who would track all needs and assign tasks?
Like... devise what size of crew capsule must be -- because of that depend what size of rocket itself must be.
And that... depend on a mission itself. And what is that mission -- WHO can define it?
Some specialist? Naaaah.
No specialist would take such responsibility on himself.
Specialist might count space and weight needed. Devise some workaround (like that paper thin wall of that Eagle module).
But...
NOT what mission and all intertwined needs there could be.
That's because there isn't just one person performing the ideation, there are many contributors and contributions, only some of which "fly". Do you understand roll of "decision-makers"? At Nasa we had the program manager at the Centerlevel directing the day-to-day, but we also had a Project Executive at NASA HQ keeping tabs on it, and more importantly, a standing review board (SRB) of experts in many aspects of the field validating the decisions made.
The same goes for the "team" that propose the original mission, in competition with other proposals. Take the recent missions where a landing site (Lunar South Pole) was "envisioned" and then an "Announcement of Opportunity" circulated to the science and business communities soliciting proposals.
And the selection of the landing site and timeframe were also "decided" out of scientific proposals to visit many others.
The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of specific and available hardware options evaluated and proposed all along the way.
Musk has "ideas" about where he wants to go, but he must select from options presented to him and create new options when those proposed fall short of his expectations or don't work out "technically" (not ready for prime time, like AI).
\\That's because there isn't just one person performing the ideation, there are many contributors and contributions, only some of which "fly".
That's... by all means.
\\Musk has "ideas" about where he wants to go, but he must select from options presented to him and create new options when those proposed fall short of his expectations or don't work out "technically" (not ready for prime time, like AI).
He... investor.
NOT architector.
\\Do you understand roll of "decision-makers"?
Why would I ask, if I would???
I... was bare open about my experience.
And that is too small. And too vague -- I totally without a clue -- what shit was in the heads of that "decision-makers" I encountered through my lifetime. %-)))))))
Just for me words would not be miserly babbling -- I'll show one example.
One of decision-makers/investors/employer -- ASKED... to make Facebook to him. To a team made of couple off-shore programmers.
\\At Nasa we had the program manager at the Centerlevel directing the day-to-day, but we also had a Project Executive at NASA HQ keeping tabs on it, and more importantly, a standing review board (SRB) of experts in many aspects of the field validating the decisions made.
Yeah...
but WHO devised that review board structure? ;-)
\\The same goes for the "team" that propose the original mission, in competition with other proposals.
Again... who devised that competition of proposals?
Well... of that... I have experience. Even if narrow and mostly anecdotical.
But I know how that "design by committee" happens -- when decision-makers losing drive to propose anything -- and derelicting their duty... throwin it at middle managers.
Yawn.
The Procurement process developed over time. I'm told the "model" for management originated during the Polaris Program. These processes were captured by the founders of the PMI. One of my professors at USC was a founding member. They were also captured by Dept of Defense in MIL-SPECS and Data Item Descriptions (DIDs), which were imposed upon contractors/ vendors to follow these processes for Work-Breakdown Structures, Human Factors Engineering, Configuration Control, etc. NASA's version of the management system is captured in 7120.5 for large projects and 7120.8 for smaller research/ development ones.
btw - I didn't have to become a PMP (Project Management Profession) and take all their "certification" tests because I was grandfathered in with my MS is Systems management from USC diploma (Like Charlie Bolden).
Yeah.
Organization... in its late fossilized form.
AKA bureaucracy.
When for everything there is tons of rules... but nobody know/remember why they was introduced in the first place. :-)
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