Halliday, J., & correspondent, J. H. N. of E. (2022, January 17). ‘Christmas was awful’: On the Omicron frontline at the Royal Preston hospital. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/17/christmas-was-awful-on-the-omicron-frontline-at-the-royal-preston-hospital

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: “but it is not vaccinated people that are disproportionately filling up ICUs. For any government whose policy is guided by ICU capacity, limiting the transmission possibilities for the unvaccinated is now the point. It is frustrating to see someone continue to ignore this” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1471088416246878211

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, December 11). RT @CaulfieldTim: Getting Africa fully vaccinated is complicated. It isn’t as simple as just sending more doses https://cbc.ca/news/world/vaccine-inequity-covid-19-africa-1.6275262?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar @ma… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1469938807101345797

Shaun Lintern. (2021, December 5). Just one of many msgs I’ve received today: Https://t.co/jgRqeZPuIe [Tweet]. @ShaunLintern. https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1467621369420697600

Lenhardt, S. (2021, November 30). Labore am Limit: Bei PCR-Tests kommt es zu Engpässen. tagesschau.de. https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/labore-corona-pcr-test-101.html

Is there sufficient renewable energy capacity to meet the 1.5 Deg target/ It appears there isn't.

What encompasses building awareness? What do you think are the marks of success?

What else does this raise? Reply to add your thoughts, a link or ideas – or – add an annotation on a section that appeals to you!

Differentiate issues, challenges, examples of where capacity building is done

“Students are graduating into a brutal job market.”

The entreprecariat is designed for learned helplessness (social: individualism), trained incapacities (economic: specialization), and bureaucratic intransigence (political: authoritarianism).

The Design Problem

Three diagrams will explain the lack of social engagement in design. If (in Figure 1) we equate the triangle with a design problem, we readily see that industry and its designers are concerned only with the tiny top portion, without addressing themselves to real needs.

(Design for the Real World, 2019. Page 57.)

The other two figures merely change the caption for the figure.

• Figure 1: The Design Problem
• Figure 2: A Country
• Figure 3: The World

Patel, K., Chapman, R., Gill, R., & Richards, J. (2021). Ensuring an equitable recovery for the NHS. BMJ, 375, n2456. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2456

Lucas, C., Vogels, C. B. F., Yildirim, I., Rothman, J. E., Lu, P., Monteiro, V., Gelhausen, J. R., Campbell, M., Silva, J., Tabachikova, A., Peña-Hernandez, M. A., Muenker, M. C., Breban, M. I., Fauver, J. R., Mohanty, S., Huang, J., Shaw, A. C., Ko, A. I., Omer, S. B., … Iwasaki, A. (2021). Impact of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants on mRNA vaccine-induced immunity. Nature, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04085-y

The Art of Noticing

This is a compilation of articles that I had written as a way to process the changes I was observing in the world and, consequently, in myself as a reaction to the events. I have come to think of this process as the art of noticing. This process is in contrast to the expectation that I should be a productive member of society, a target market, and a passive audience for charismatic leaders: celebrities, billionaires, and politicians.

• Social: fame
• Economic: wealth
• Political: power

An Agent of Change

To become an agent of change is to recognize that we are not separate, we are not individuals, we are not cogs in a machine. We are complex and diverse. We are designers. We are a creative, collective, self-organizing, learning community.

We are in a process of becoming—a being journey:

• Personal resilience
• Social influence
• Economic capacity
• Political agency
• Ecological harmony

This is how we shift from an attention economy to an intention economy. Rather than being oriented toward the failures of the past, the uncertainty of the present, or the worries of the future, in a constant state of anxiety, stress, and fear, we are shifting our consciousness to manifest our intention through perception (senses), cognition (mind), emotion (heart), and action (body). We are exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together.

We are the builders collective.

We are one.

Bob Enyart, conservative firebrand and pastor, dies of COVID-19. (2021, September 14). The Denver Post. https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/13/bob-enyart-dies-covid-19/

Integrating the minimalist journal in an interface for system thinking of the personal, social, economic, political, and ecological as nested holobionts.

FACT SHEET: President Biden’s Global COVID-19 Summit: Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better. (2021, September 22). The White House. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/22/fact-sheet-president-bidens-global-covid-19-summit-ending-the-pandemic-and-building-back-better/

Cecco, L. (2021, September 15). Canada: Alberta healthcare system on verge of collapse as Covid cases and anti-vax sentiments rise. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/15/canada-alberta-healthcare-system-covid-cases-rise

Josh Michaud. “Over the next 2 Months COVAX Expects to Have Access to Almost Twice as Many Covid-19 Vaccine Doses as It Did over the First 8 Months of This Year. Https://Gavi.Org/Sites/Default/Files/Covid/Covax/COVAX-Supply-Forecast.Pdf Https://T.Co/JBtGYXFTwc.” Tweet. @joshmich (blog), September 2, 2021. https://twitter.com/joshmich/status/1433462474544660484.

Beauté, J., Adlhoch, C., Bundle, N., Melidou, A., & Spiteri, G. (2021). Testing indicators to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00461-8

Hill, Ryan, Yian Yin, Carolyn Stein, Dashun Wang, and Benjamin F. Jones. “Adaptability and the Pivot Penalty in Science.” ArXiv:2107.06476 [Physics], July 13, 2021. http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06476.

Karlinsky, A., & Kobak, D. (2021). The World Mortality Dataset: Tracking excess mortality across countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. MedRxiv, 2021.01.27.21250604. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.27.21250604

Morgan, O. W., Aguilera, X., Ammon, A., Amuasi, J., Fall, I. S., Frieden, T., Heymann, D., Ihekweazu, C., Jeong, E., Leung, G. M., Mahon, B., Nkengasong, J., Qamar, F. N., Schuchat, A., Wieler, L. H., & Dowell, S. F. (2021). Disease surveillance for the COVID-19 era: Time for bold changes. The Lancet, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01096-5

Amitava Banerjee: Covid-19 in India—lockdown and vaccination drive only way forward. (2021, May 6). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/05/06/amitava-banerjee-covid-19-in-india-lockdown-and-vaccination-drive-only-way-forward/

Angulo, M. T., Castaños, F., Velasco-Hernandez, J. X., & Moreno, J. A. (2020). A simple criterion to design optimal nonpharmaceutical interventions for epidemic outbreaks. MedRxiv, 2020.05.19.20107268. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.19.20107268

Lewis, T. (n.d.). COVID-19 Spit Tests Used by NBA Are Now Authorized by FDA. Scientific American. Retrieved August 24, 2020, from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-spit-tests-used-by-nba-are-now-authorized-by-fda/

Peeters, A., Mullins, G., Becker, D., Orellana, L., & Livingston, P. (2020). COVID-19’s impact on Australia’s health research workforce. The Lancet, 396(10249), 461. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31533-6

Xie, W., Campbell, S., & Zhang, W. (2020). Working memory capacity predicts individual differences in social-distancing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2008868117

It used to give me a good reason to point to the Scrum Guide when the team was annoyed by the number of refinement hours during a sprint.

With more experience, it becomes clear that the number of refinement hours spent should not depend on the Scrum Guide but on the readiness of work. A better measure, and this differs from team to team, is how many stories shall be ready at all times? One to three sprints worth of ready work? At least enough work should be ready before Sprint Planning, so that the actual sprint delivers done work (and not more refinement work, only.)

Refinement hours spent also depend on how predictable the work is on the Product Owner’s roadmap and if there is a need to do first iterations of refinement on future releases, months away to have a very high level estimate of effort.

Opinions?

Islam, M. M., & Yunus, M. Y. (2020). Rohingya refugees at high risk of COVID-19 in Bangladesh. The Lancet Global Health, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30282-5

Szumowska, E., Czarnek, G., Dragon, P., & Keersmaecker, J. D. (2021). Multitasking and correction of false information. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w5v4z

COVID-19: Full utilization of certified and recognized intensive care bed capacities—SGI-SSMI-SSMI Swiss Society for Intensive Care Medicine. (n.d.). Retrieved 5 March 2021, from https://www.sgi-ssmi.ch/de/news-detail/items/601.html

Hauck, Katharina. “Agonising Choices in ICUs Should Be Made by Society, Not Individuals,” January 19, 2021. https://www.ft.com/content/d976a31e-90fa-4768-a680-0fcdda33cc2b.

Imperial News. “Staff ‘need Clearer Guidance’ as COVID Overwhelms ICUs | Imperial News | Imperial College London.” Accessed February 19, 2021. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/212833/staff-need-clearer-guidance-covid-overwhelms/.

Thomas Van Boeckel. (2020, November 30). Https://t.co/s7o808PE3U now shows the ‘ad-hoc’ bed capacity as well as the bed capacity certified by the Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Data from partners the Coordinated Sanitary Service of @vbs_ddps. Thanks @nico_criscuolo @ChengZhao20, PhDs at @ETH_en https://t.co/5XxTexVyy9 [Tweet]. @thvanboeckel. https://twitter.com/thvanboeckel/status/1333323133592408064

Reinders Folmer, C., Brownlee, M., Fine, A., Kuiper, M. E., Olthuis, E., Kooistra, E. B., … van Rooij, B. (2020, October 7). Social Distancing in America: Understanding Long-term Adherence to Covid-19 Mitigation Recommendations. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/457em

Gardner, J. M., Willem, L., Wijngaart, W. van der, Kamerlin, S. C. L., Brusselaers, N., & Kasson, P. (2020). Intervention strategies against COVID-19 and their estimated impact on Swedish healthcare capacity. MedRxiv, 2020.04.11.20062133. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133

Here’s how to stop the virus from winning. (2020, June 26). Science. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/how-to-stop-coronavirus-surges-from-winning-the-war-cvd/

Small Pleasures Are Just As Important For Our Wellbeing As Long-Term Goals. (2020, August 17). Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/08/17/small-pleasures-are-just-as-important-for-our-wellbeing-as-long-term-goals/

Alon, T., Kim, M., Lagakos, D., & VanVuren, M. (2020). How Should Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ in the Developing World? (Working Paper No. 27273; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27273

Harris, J. E. (2020). The Coronavirus Epidemic Curve is Already Flattening in New York City (Working Paper No. 26917; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w26917

The World’s Supply Chain Isn’t Ready for a Covid-19 Vaccine. (2020, July 25). Bloomberg.Com. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-25/the-supply-chain-to-save-the-world-is-unprepared-for-a-vaccine

Xie, W., Campbell, S., & Zhang, W. (2020, May 5). Working Memory Capacity Predicts Individual Differences in Social Distancing Compliance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3j69f

Bosancianu, C. M., Dionne, K. Y., Hilbig, H., Humphreys, M., Kc, S., Lieber, N., & Scacco, A. (2020). Political and Social Correlates of Covid-19 Mortality [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/ub3zd

(((Howard Forman))) on Twitter: “Hospitalized pts w/Covid in #Texas growing by almost 6% per day. In some regions, already near capacity. In < 2 weeks, entire state will be challenged (as NY, CT, MA, & NJ were) to maintain normal hospital operations (already suspended elective surgeries in many regions). https://t.co/lwW1nLHhZR” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved July 10, 2020, from https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1280855254217547780

Pell, Samantha, closeSamantha PellReporter covering the Washington CapitalsEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollowC, ace Buckner, closeC, and ace BucknerNational Basketball Association with an emphasis in covering the Washington Wizards EmailEmailBioBioFollowFollowJacqueline Dupree closeJacqueline DupreeNewsroom Intranet EditorEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollow. ‘Coronavirus Hospitalizations Rise Sharply in Several States Following Memorial Day’. Washington Post. Accessed 10 June 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/09/coronavirus-hospitalizations-rising/.

Infurna, F. J., & Jayawickreme, E. (2019). Fixing the Growth Illusion: New Directions for Research in Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(2), 152–158. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419827017

Is It Time to Reopen? (2020, May 20). Yale Insights. https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/is-it-time-to-reopen

Nundy, S., & Patel, K. K. (2020). Hospital-at-Home to Support COVID-19 Surge—Time to Bring Down the Walls? JAMA Health Forum, 1(5), e200504–e200504. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2020.0504

Khullar, D., Bond, A. M., & Schpero, W. L. (2020). COVID-19 and the Financial Health of US Hospitals. JAMA. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.6269

Viehweger, A. (2020). Phiweger/clonepool [TeX]. https://github.com/phiweger/clonepool (Original work published 2020)

Viehweger, A., Kühnl, F., Brandt, C., & König, B. (2020). Increased PCR screening capacity using a multi-replicate pooling scheme. MedRxiv, 2020.04.16.20067603. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.16.20067603

Epidemic Preparedness: Coronavirus (COVID-19) funding call | Wellcome. (n.d.). Retrieved April 14, 2020, from https://wellcome.ac.uk/grant-funding/schemes/epidemic-preparedness-covid-19

National Academies of Sciences, E. (2017). Building Communication Capacity to Counter Infectious Disease Threats: Proceedings of a Workshop. https://doi.org/10.17226/24738

Perhaps some comments as to how the international guidelines cover local training and capacity building would be a useful addition.

Definición de la construcción de capacidades de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la reducción de desastres

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There is an interesting construction of agency here: rhetoric is treated as the subject of the sentence. Rhetoric does the selecting. This suggests, perhaps unwittingly, the kinds of claims Rickert makes about rhetoric as less a tool than a capacity or even a force. We participate in rhetoric, but we don't necessarily control it.