Showing posts with label analogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label analogy. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Ogregore analogies

Ogregores—organizations that demonstrate collective agency—are all around us but are hard to grasp because they are not human, even though their most important parts are people. I will explore some analogies to get a handle on them, starting with ancient gods and ending with sci-fi hive minds.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Receiver Interference Tolerance: The Tent Analogy

A postcript to my testimony (see previous post) at the House sub-committee on Communications and Technology hearing on receivers: It sounded like Rep. Walden, who chairs the sub-committee, hoped my oral presentation would've mentioned the tent analogy I included in the written testimony. So since at least one person liked it, here it is: