Memory and Critical Thought

Memory and Critical Thought

The more I practice writing I hypothesize the more I will like writing. The more time and surface are given to a tool has high likelihood for increasing potential with that tool. A man that sees a hand saw and a stack of lumber is different than a carpenter that sees a hand saw and a stack of lumber. One sees materials known to be useful, another sees materials able to be put into use.

Able to generate value from resources is not a given. If a man that is not a welder has some scrap metal then their ability to utilize those resources are different than a skilled welder that might be able to turn them into a car or a spaceship, maybe those examples are a bit hyperbolic but the contrast and juxtaposition helps highlight the point that a skilled worker makes resources and tools more valuable.

Training has the potential to be value added for problem solving, has potential to be less than ideal potential for creative problem solving. If I see a nail and a board then how I think is dependent upon whether I recently bought a hammer or not. If I recently bought a hammer I might think a good use of my time would be to hammer that nail into the board, where as if I did not I might jump to other ideas for the best use of my time.

A conventional problem solver might say ProblemA is usually solved, has a precedent for being solved with SolutionA thus we should use SolutionA because time invested in finding a new solution might be insufficient. A creative problem solver might look at ProblemA and think, it is classically solved with SolutionA and that has been repeated over time because other solutions have proved less effective, and no greater solution is available. Stainless steel nails have the potential to decrease rust over other nails, yet material cost and complexities of not having stainless steel or corrosion resistant nails is still of concern. New solutions potentially bring new and different costs, potentials for hazards like toxic metals (some corrosion resistant nails have lead) that other tried and solutions did not have.

Cost effective solutions with More Ideal Properties factors into Precedent for Solutions chosen and repeated over time. New discoveries like new materials that don’t corrode as easily have the potential to change the game, yet sufficient research and investment into how they might change things in less ideal ways is not always sufficiently invested in. Requires less maintenance might be upsold to no maintenance, no maintenance might lead to other problems like termites not being addressed because the system as a whole was upsold to low need no need for maintenance costs. Decreased maintenance in one direction might not decrease maintenance in all directions in sufficient ways.

Precedent for problems solved in a particular way is useful, is not always useful, when reassessed it would be wise to consider possibilities and remember it is unlikely one will think of all possible combinations or anomalies associated with a system.

A builder might not always consider tidal waves during building. Building inland no documentable cases of tidal waves hitting factors into design considerations and choices. Are there other potential Tidal Waves, other similar systems that have the potential to show up in unexpected rare case ways that might be worthy of consideration in design? Building on rock is potentially possible, upsold to given in similar far from exact systems not always a given.

Texas has Tornadoes. I am from Texas, thus I have comprehension that Nature can throw something on par with Tidal Waves. People that don’t have Tornadoes in their area might not consider possibilities that are rare. They might have other rare events like Earthquakes they need to take into account. Just because I might not have experienced an Earthquake does not equal there is zero I can learn from the event and similar events.

Having a backup plan, having more than one way to solve problems can be useful. Events that happen more often have the potential for being more protected by backup plans than others. Having flashlights are useful, with a more stable electric grid blackouts are less common does not equal they are impossible.

Better, lower maintenance cost does not always equal more maintained. If an engine on a car has a problem a mechanic opens the engine and is more likely to see problems on the car than if the engine and hood was just left shut. Maintenance of PartA has potential to amplify problems seen in PartB, a squeaky wheel might lead to other wheels that don’t squeak being assessed for fitness and being maintained properly rather than never considered.

Lights are useful for walking until the power goes out, or a circuit breaks. Flashlights are useful for lighting the path until the batteries go out. No batteries and a broken circuit is a possible system, one that highlighted can be taken into consideration.