[MD] The MOQ's First Principle

[Khaled Alkotob]

[Platt]
> Try this (stolen from Pirsig). With your SOM glasses on, you see a 
> dog and think, "German Shepherd." With your MOQ glasses on you see a
dog 
> 
> and think, "That's a good dog."
> 
> That doesn't carry us very far. But, maybe it's a start to what we 
> can 
> all get behind to spread the word about the MOQ.
> 
> Best regards,
> Platt
> 

Reminds of a hike in sequoia national park sponsored by a local HMO for
"every-day" office workers.

On the way up the discussion was about make up, hair styles, automobiles,
and so on

On the way down, it was about ideas and life.

Maybe breaking the ice had something to do with that. As daily life
grinds on, it become harder and harder to take those motorcycle trips to
discover ourselve, others, and the MOQ.

My feeling is that you can't understand the MOQ if you don't live it, or
managed to feel somewhere along the line.

I said that before, and I'll bring it up again. if you can't see the
quality in the beer can used as a shim to fix the handlebars of the bike,
you ain't gonna see the MOQ.

Just as children learn with training wheels and picture books, the MOQ
moves the same way.

Here are 10 commandments, follow them. Then one day you know, you really
get to know what they mean, now you don't need them because you have your
inner compass.

So to go to your analogy earlier, WE don't grind the glasses for the
others, we teach them how to grind their own. BUT, they need to know that
with those glasses on, 10 feet out, a certain target has to be in focus.

At each major airport, there is something called a compass rose, you take
your airplane there, turn on all the engines and avionics, then calibrate
your compass to point the same direction as the rose.

Yes it's the same compass that each plane has, they all point the same
way out of the box, but installed in that cockpit, each has to be fine
tuned to point the same way.

See, the MOQ here is getting to your destination. Taken out of their
respective airplanes and put in the same room, those compasses are going
to disagree, not by much, but they will.

So if your MOQ is compasses that match ( in a room out of the airplane) ,
well that will never be, but if your MOQ is a compass that will point the
pilot in the right direction ( Installed in the plane and ), then you
have succeeded.

No it's not what makes you feel good. There are rules, even chaos tends
to have a pattern when viewed over distance and time.

Back to your point about the dog. Is it a good dog or is it a German
shepherd. Well if you have been bitten a few times, your first question
is if the dog is good or not. But eventually with time, you tend to see
all the attributes of the dog, yes he is a German shepherd, with all the
physical attributes that come with that. then you start noticing the
personality.
It's the way the brain processes things, first you notice the physical,
then, with time you get to know the creature.

Time and interactions, observations and educated judgments.

As we say in the photography business

"Of what use is lens and light, those who lack in mind and sight"

Khaled