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Doug Garnett

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Complexity in business, math, and engineering. Deep experience with new consumer products. Portland, OR. http://DougGarnett.com. http://protonik.net. Adjunct at Portland State. Cohost of The Marketing Podcast with Shahin Khan (https://t.co/XgZ4WBiyoU).

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Complexity: The Dynamic Uncertainty of Emergence | Doug Garnett’s Blog In the May 23rd edition of JP Castlin’s Strategy in Praxis newsletter we suggested businesses often face a type of uncertainty JP named "dynamic uncertainty"

Economic canon discusses three types of uncertainty. On my Blog, @jpcastlin.bsky.social and I write about Dynamic Uncertainty β€” a natural uncertainty from emergence inherent to business. @fionatribe.bsky.social @caff.bsky.social @theropodpublishing.bsky.social
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01.08.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‡So much thisπŸ‘‡

30.07.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No general argument (except Lagavulin is a go-to for me) with that logic. What is this Filey all about? :-)

30.07.2025 05:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course, I don't know exactly how they define the role for store managers. But this seems exactly the wrong thing to do... In other companies it would mean emphasizing remote bureaucracy instead of feet in the street who know what's going on. But, all depends on specifics.

14.07.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

09.07.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10635    πŸ” 2532    πŸ’¬ 840    πŸ“Œ 193
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Just days ago, Trump called for canceling Netanyahu’s trial, even suggesting he’d cut U.S. aid to Israel unless it was. Now he’s pulling the same move with Bolsonaro: β€œI’ll be watching the WITCH HUNT of Jair Bolsonaro…very closely.”

Under Trump, the U.S. has become a global protector of corruption.

07.07.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 734    πŸ” 212    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 29

when a judge legit tries to protect you from the lawless president by keeping you in jail

03.07.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2339    πŸ” 519    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 18

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03.07.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Trump administration has released a three-time felon and five-time deported immigrant because he's going to testify against zero-time felon Abrego - all to cover their tracks for mistakenly and illegally sending Abrego to El Salvador and then lying about it to the court to cover it up.

29.06.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3985    πŸ” 1925    πŸ’¬ 287    πŸ“Œ 113

DOGE knows nothing about managing effectively.

22.06.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And something for the next president to take down. Always nice to have immediate remodeling to do at the people’s house.

18.06.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kristi Noem: Sen. Padilla Had Even Deadlier Opinion That Failed To Go OffΒ  LOS ANGELESβ€”Stressing that she had significant reason to fear for her life during yesterday’s confrontation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters Friday that she believed Sen. Alex Padilla had an even deadlier opinion that failed to go off. β€œWe found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, […]

β€œWe found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, and I’m terrified to think how the situation would have shaken out if he’d been able to say even one of them aloud,” said Kristi Noem theonion.com/kristi-...

14.06.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5885    πŸ” 931    πŸ’¬ 181    πŸ“Œ 60
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That’s not what the military is supposed to do. That’s called a military coup.

12.06.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5923    πŸ” 2139    πŸ’¬ 394    πŸ“Œ 123

This is extremely concerning. Trump WANTS to be a dictator so he's having his administration act like their dictators. But that doesn't mean they are. Courts will not be happy.

12.06.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Complexity and Experimentation: The Rebellious Bee. | Doug Garnett’s Blog Through my company, Protonik LLC, I consult with companies as they design and bring to market new and innovative products. I am writing a book exploring the

New blog post: The critical need for company rebels. A focus on Exploring v Exploiting and thoughts on learning through experimentation.

More thoughts deriving from excellent discussion with
@jpcastlin.bsky.social.

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12.06.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonder Woman is Chicana πŸ’ͺ🏽πŸ’ͺ🏽πŸ’ͺ🏽

12.06.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 358    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Spokane, Washington tonight became the center of national attention after a peaceful protest outside an ICE facility was escalated by police.

12.06.2025 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4864    πŸ” 1234    πŸ’¬ 113    πŸ“Œ 74

I fully agree with the last statement. The other two are entirely unknown and, given tech history, unlikely.

11.06.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schoolsβ€”told staff they had β€œparental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

10.06.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 40381    πŸ” 18049    πŸ’¬ 1417    πŸ“Œ 2357
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I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

09.06.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 12455    πŸ” 5593    πŸ’¬ 204    πŸ“Œ 245

Methinks Apple is re-shuffling the deck chairs.

09.06.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those are quite cool. Although caves and I don’t go well together due to claustrophobic feelings, I also find them incredibly fascinating.

09.06.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let this sink in.

Even the Los Angeles Police Chief, Jim McDonnell, made it clear: the people protesting immigration raids were not the ones causing violence.

During a Sunday evening press conference, McDonnell condemned the violence as β€œdisgusting”

09.06.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 26755    πŸ” 7782    πŸ’¬ 469    πŸ“Œ 259
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Border Patrol Response To Portland Unrest: Straying From Mission Or Continuing One? Images of federal officers making arrests have alarmed critics who think President Trump is using the officers to trample civil rights and appear as a law-and-order candidate ahead of elections.

Yes. Trump WANTS violence by people he can tell his MAGA enthusiasts are "not us" and "shouldn't be here".

Note the media also mostly doesn't see that Trump goes out of his way to incite or increase violence as that plays to his advantage and allows him to be cruel. www.npr.org/2020/07/23/8...

09.06.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

08.06.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 35219    πŸ” 9891    πŸ’¬ 936    πŸ“Œ 417

β€œWe cannot build bananas in America”… πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

05.06.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon cited irreconcilable budget differences.

05.06.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1559    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 16
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Builder.ai used 700 engineers in India for coding work it marketed as AI-powered, after hype now goes bust The startup that made a great song and dance about AI and its in-house virtual assistant Natasha to β€œmake building an app so easy, anyone can do it” was apparently outsourcing its job to an office in ...

Oh no, not another AI scam...

www.indiatoday.in/technology/n...

03.06.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œMade strides”? This shows a very weak understanding of the vagaries of elections. It continues a long thread of NYT errors attributing causality to Trump which doesn’t exist.

03.06.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0