Income statement & Balance statement

Two fundamental ratios: Process (flow) ratios, Resource (asset) ratios, and Flow to Asset ratios.

A third is Variation.

The potential market is defined by the desired market - that we 'intend' to sell to. Of the Potential market one part is unavailable (to varying degree). A customer that creates a rightful cost for us to pursue, is rightfully our market, and part of our rightful market share.

Link: Book,

Unpublished: Values & Measures (TED 7:30), Commensurability, 2

The American dream, of equality

Video: The American dream: Their Vision and Perception, against the Facts

Picture: The richest and the poorest in 11 countries. Shows the difference in ethical core values (political/religious) - the re-distributive justice norm (in reality).



Source: NY times, Value system

Unpublished: New quantum effect discovered

Worlds most Over-exploited countries - Developed but Unsustainable

When, will a global authority organize life's survival? From Human Needs/demands to Life's Need, from Human Rights, to Life's Right, from Human Development Index to Life Development Index, by species, habitat, inter-species, etc.
Developed but unsustainable countries have just one direction of movement/freedom. But, is Ecological footprint the accepted renewable growth measure (like GDP), for material+energy usage?

Source: link, 2, Current Climate Models skills (TED), Sustainability, Natural resources, Society,

Trace your ancestors home, 1000yrs ago via DNA

Tracing where your DNA was formed over 1,000 years ago is now possible, thanks to a revolutionary technique. The ground-breaking Geographic Population Structure tool works similarly to a satellite navigation system as it helps you to find your way home, but not the one you currently live in -- but rather your actual ancestor's home from 1,000 years ago.

Previously, scientists have only been able to locate where your DNA was formed to within 700kms, which in Europe could be two countries away; however this pioneering technique has been 98 per cent successful in locating worldwide populations to their right geographic regions, and down to their village and island of origin.

Tracing our ancestry is now a major social trend and genealogy is the number one hobby in America. An estimated one million people in the USA have already had their DNA genotyped. People can explore their DNA by simply taking a swab from inside their mouth and sending it to a company such as 23andme or ancestry.com for costs ranging from $99-$200.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aap-s1kle4Q

Read more: Science Daily
Unpublished: Understanding=listening to yourself, Magnetic spin vortices 

”The Limits to Growth” - video

"The limits to Growth", 1972
Video: http://urplay.se/Produkter/179422-Varlden-Hallbarhetens-grans#innehall
Can democracy deal with the current problems? 47:00- 48:30, 49:30 - 51:00. We must!

"The limits to Growth", 1972 -- "Beyond the Limits", 1992 -- "

Club of Rome --- 10million copies sold --- Stockholm conference --- International discussions
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth
https://www.google.se/search?q=the+limits+to+growth&rlz=1C1RQEB_enSE527SE527&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=3N8JU7jXB4a7ygO284LADg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=609#imgdii=_

Exponential systems have a tendency to overshoot their limits (video 19:00-20:00)
Link: http://www.slideshare.net/benghuid/common-modes-of-dynamic-behavior


How the system handles they overshooting of the limit can be said to define the systems resilience.

We can see is a similar pattern in the stock market.

Link: http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/historical/djia1900.html


If the system overshoot and can't sustain the limit level, it collapses -- Survivable development 46:30
Link: http://ecoglobe.ch/sustain/e/ltg.htm

Quality of life

Unpublished: Audit Annual report (we move towards an all Stakeholder Value Report), Cooperative-Competition is the next strategy, Social-Liberalism, John Rawls, Restorative Justice - Howard Zehr, Intelligence = maximum freedom of actions, Social Progress Index, Bayesian analysis, X-matrix1, X-matrix2, Same food, Governance Indicators, 2, Bribing children

Stakeholder Centered Reports (Integrated/Sustainability reports) - A global phase shift

All current "for profit companies" are about to become to "for benefit companies", and all stakeholders expect their benefits to show up in a the new 'Integrated report'. That is a global phase shift. 

Companies can apply to become a certified 'for Benefit Corporation' (B-Corps) if they manage to reach certain standards. The requirement is to hold certain values/principles that benefits certain stakeholders. This in turn requires them to display a "Integrated report" (for all stakeholders) and not just a Financial report for the shareholders. 

The last couple of years more and more companies have produced Sustainability reports + Financial reports. These two are about to become one Integrated Report.

The integrated report becomes a greatly enhanced transparency report (for all stakeholder). Just look at how the 'Sustainability reports' competitions have pushed companies to unseen levels of transparency; showing good practices never been revealed before. And there is a fundamental difference in value between 'transparent co-operation' and 'hidden competition'.

Picture: RobecoSAM Sustainability Yearbook awards good reports; Gold, Silver, Bronze.

Why does it matter? Well, it does if employees start to look for companies that share their convictions; I want to be part of building a better world might become "Together for a better future" (Hyundai vision statement in their sustainability report). Vales that captures the complete framework of 'satisfaction/dissatisfaction, for all life forms, promotes diversity, access to/free from, etc'.

It might seams like a series of unrelated events; the environmental movement, the internet with access to free knowledge and data transparency, the financial crisis/frauds, unjustified distribution of wealth, Arabic spring, China, WikiLeaks, Obama, free teachings on ethics Professor Sandell's, TED, etc.  '
I think most can be traced back to similar values (of which non are new) but they happen to converge to enable a phase transition.
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Sustainability reports:
The core focus for the current 'sustainability reports' is on the environment. Which touches upon society, and then balance it with all Traders/Stakeholders; =Humans (Suppliers, Financiers, Employees, Customers, Society) + Nature (all other forms of life).

Picture: Example of stakeholders, key areas, current state, activities (SCA page 9)


The reports basically defines "Resources needed to sustain a happy life* for One life form", and the value we place on a fair trade between the living resources; animals and other humans.
Note: Diversity is the key driver of change, similarity is the successful fruit of diversity. So there is a value in both similarity and diversity.

* Presence of Satisfaction and Absence of Dissatisfaction

The reports measures the input, output, efficiency ratio (lean or absence of negative effects) by resource (time included), trader/stakeholder, between different places in the process.

The reports define the Current state, Desired future state. The vision is 'the mountain top' we envision to go to. The mission is the way to get there. The strategy defines the chosen path (strategy). Chosen path since it's like climbing, it the pends on where we are, where we envision to go and what people/resources we have at hand right now.

Picture: Example of current/future state Volvo page 11 (site).


In essence, the trader/stakeholder surveys will define; What do you want, what are you willing to pay (trade for it). Quality as measured from a stakeholder is the difference between current and future state.

The 'sustainability reports' is a form of 'balanced scorecard' that aims for a successful mix/balance between all trader/stakeholder perspectives. The different traders speaks in terms of their perspectives (and visions).
The biggest efficiency is when the traders cooperate, and the biggest inefficiency is when they don't.
In essence, efficient/inefficient is all about peoples ability to cooperate. The presence/absence of these management (bio) markers/success factors; increase chances for a successful business.

Now these changes normally don't happen all at once. They occur in leaps - from each new and successful change.

Picture: Greater result (values) only comes after periods of successful change.


In essence, the above changes can happen faster (catalyzed=time efficiency increase), by following certain values/ethics/rights (like Human rights, Natures rights, etc) and certain good practices/standards, that benefits most stakeholders.

Since it a complex chain of if-then's, it usually takes a team effort (group thinking) to feel what is right rather one (leader) that knows what is right. The team knows when it works, but working teams (and individuals) usually needs a coach/guide/teacher.

Other:

Lundquist CSR (CorporateSocialResponsibility) online awards 2012, awards good on-line publications.

Unpublished: Integrated Reporting, Integrated Reporting, For Benefit Corporations, TEDx B Corps, Facts, FAR and IIRC, Stakeholders risk/return formula, 2, EconomicTheory&GlobalCrisis, hrh-the-prince-of-wales-global-sustainability-film, Ethos movie, Moral duty Pr. Sandel (Kant), Rule of Law, 2, 3 generations of Human Rights, Natural Resources

Sketch book notes

Biology: Picture1, 2 and Building blocks

Language

Linguistics=language means communication. Communication in physics is transfer of energy. 

Main categories=Noun, Verb, Adjective(=Object property), Adverb(Process property), ... 

Pro-form=Basic questions/dimensions; what(thing), where(place), when(time), how(procedure), why(benefit)

Head initial (examples): 

  English: Kim has put the book on the table (process, object)

  German: Kim hat das Buch auf den Tisch gelegt (object, process)

  Left or right branching (=the difference between Bottom up or Top down thinking, Roots and Leaves perspective. Guided micro circular turbulence reduces the end turbulence)

Dexis=Requires contextual knowledge, 

Discourse=Communication to and from

SVO=Somebody does something=org., process, unit

Mathematics

Mathematical categories: Aend=Astart*x. 

A=object before and after a change (from start to end).

x=change  (i.e. linear change). A change can be anything.

Non essential: The step change is probably a 'Lévy flight motion' - a fundamental motion for life - with a forward motion related to the depth/width/quality of the memory; the feedback process (recursive). 

"The Lévy walk pattern appears to be ubiquitous in animals, similar to the golden ratio, phi, a mathematical ratio that has been found to describe proportions in plants and animals throughout nature."

Justice

Justice from Wikipedia: "Justice is a concept of moral rightness based ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, equity and fairness, as well as the administration of the law, taking into account the inalienable and inborn rights of all human beings and citizens, the right of all people and individuals to equal protection before the law of their civil rights, without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national, origin, color, ethnicity,religion, disability, age, wealth, or other characteristics, and is further regarded as being inclusive of social justice.

According to most contemporary theories of justice, justice is overwhelmingly important: John Rawls claims that 'Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.' Justice has traditionally been associated with concepts of fate, reincarnation or Divine Providence, i.e. with a life in accordance with the cosmic plan. The association of justice with fairness has thus been historically and culturally rare and is perhaps chiefly a modern innovation [in western societies]. "

Link: JusticeHarvard.org, Rule of law, World Justice project

Why is the above important? When 'everyone' sense a fair distribution of satisfaction (and absence of dissatisfaction) - everyone will be motivated to cooperate. This is the secret to any successful company; and can be seen in Top Customer, Employee, Community and Investor satisfaction. To get there we need the right guiding principles (what's right and wrong) which builds on the right values (good and bad).

Theories of distributive justice need to answer three questions:

1. What goods are to be distributed? Is it to be wealth, power, respect, some combination of these things?
2. Between what entities are they to be distributed? Humans (dead, living, future), sentient beings, the members of a single society, nations?
3. What is the proper distribution? Equal, meritocratic, according to social status, according to need, based on property rights and non-aggression?

Goods is important because it's what - and especially why - we trade. What's essential to the specific trade.

Sentient is important because it's like short and long term memory of what we sense. Purpose is like a long term memory. We bring it back time after time, because it makes so much sense - a universal explanation/solution/ to so many problems.

High in value for an entity = higher purpose/meaning'. 

High in waste for an entity = without purpose or meaningless.

Note: purpose or goal=telosis and used in teleology, to establish the final cause or purpose is the most important, and links to 'Good' and the principle of 'Beauty'.

The simplest explanation is a creation without a creator, since every creator would require an endless chain of unimaginable complicated creators creating ever more complicated creators. It's a logic built on the opposite of Occam's razor, and efficiency. I believe in efficiency, and that every complexity builds on the simplest building blocks; unimaginable minute differences, iterated, and scaled up to what we see 'as the world' today. The next paradigm will come when we start to understand the special branch of chemical reactions we refer to as life; or very long lived, self-sustaining processes.

Distributed decisions

Unpublished: 

Just 4fun, Essential elements for life, Life's energy-processes, Wolfram Alpha, Principles&Policies, Intelligence emerge to maximize future outcomes, reasonable duty to care for all

Foundation of Chemistry wrong - new discovery

Rarely does the research unearth truths that challenge the foundation of a science.

"I think this work is the beginning of a revolution in chemistry," Oganov says. "We found, at low pressures achievable in the lab, perfectly stable compounds that contradict the classical rules of chemistry. "We found crazy compounds that violate textbook rules -- NaCl3, NaCl7, Na3Cl2, Na2Cl, and Na3Cl," says Weiwei Zhang.
This opens all kinds of possibilities.

Among the compounds Oganov and his team created are two-dimensional metals, where electricity is conducted along the layers of the structure. "One of these materials -- Na3Cl -- has a fascinating structure," he says. "It is [composed of] layers of NaCl and layers of pure sodium. The NaCl layers act as insulators; the pure sodium layers conduct electricity. Systems with two-dimensional electrical conductivity have attracted a lot of interest."


Source: link, 
Unpublished: high temp superconductivity, pheromones text message sent, implications of correlation between money & mean (TEDx) 

New path of evolution - A Chrysalis towards order

"I think it very likely – in fact inevitable – that biological intelligence is only a transitory phenomenon, a fleeting phase in the evolution of the universe. If we build a machine with the intellectual capability of one human, then within 5 years, its successor is more intelligent than all humanity combined. 

ET machines would be infinitely more intelligent and durable than the biological intelligence that created them. Intelligent machines would be immortal, and would not need to exist in the carbon-friendly “Goldilocks Zones” current SETI searches focus on. An AI could self-direct its own evolution, each "upgrade" would be created with the sum total of its predecessor’s knowledge preloaded.

"I think we could spend at least a few percent of our time... looking in the directions that are maybe not the most attractive in terms of biological intelligence but maybe where sentient machines are hanging out." Shostak thinks SETI ought to consider expanding its search to the energy- and matter-rich neighborhoods of hot stars, black holes and neutron stars.

Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us.

Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer for human exploration of far space. When you can take the human out of the loop, that is becoming very exciting."

Source: link

Unpublished: life's evolution linked to available resources (galaxia reborn), Male and female brains use different dimensions (x vs y), Oxytocin - the new social drug?, Holographic world theory gains support, flowering plant genome

Star System Found - Similar to Ours

“We cannot stress just how important this discovery is. It is a big step in the search for a ‘twin’ to the Solar System, and thus also in finding a second Earth. No other planetary system shows such a similar ‘architecture’ to that of our cosmic home as does the planetary system around KOI-351. 

Just as in the Solar System, rocky planets with roughly the size of Earth are found close to the star, while, ‘gas giants’ similar to Jupiter and Saturn are found as you move away from the star.

Until now, 771 stars with planets have been identified. However, most of the exoplanets discovered so far are ’solitary’. Only 170 stars are known to be orbited by more than one planet. The outermost planet orbits the star at a distance of about 150 million kilometres, or roughly one Astronomical Unit (AU), so the entire planetary system is compressed into a space corresponding to the distance between Earth and the Sun.

To detect such small planets, a special algorithm was developed by Cabrera. Besides the size of these planets, what is remarkable is the 5:4 orbital resonance. In the time it takes planet b to complete five orbits, planet c has completes exactly four orbits. Similar resonances are found among the inner moons of Jupiter.

Source: link


Unpublished: early life on earth used fewer minerals, mission incredible :-),  

Waves for a reason

Waves are waves for a reason, that makes sense - moving around an attractor. Link

Opposits creates balance, extension creates comparisons, dimension, 

Energy + Machine (recursive)

Unpublished: On road fueling, Science&Humanities-How&Why, Tin - the new Super conductor.

That's more what I thought. But what happens when we try to counter balance the phenomenon.

Synaptic Transistor Learns While It Computes

Materials scientists at the Harvard have created a new type of transistor that mimics synaptic behavior. Exploiting unusual properties in modern materials, the synaptic transistor could mark the beginning of a new kind of artificial intelligence.

"The transistor we've demonstrated is really an analog to the synapse in our brains," says co-lead author Jian Shi, a postdoctoral fellow at SEAS. "Each time a neuron initiates an action and another neuron reacts, the synapse between them increases the strength of its connection. And the faster the neurons spike each time, the stronger the synaptic connection. Essentially, it memorizes the action between the neurons."

In principle, a system integrating millions of tiny synaptic transistors and neuron terminals could take parallel computing into a new era of ultra-efficient high performance.

While calcium ions and receptors effect a change in a biological synapse, the artificial version achieves the same plasticity with oxygen ions. When a voltage is applied, these ions slip in and out of the crystal lattice of a very thin (80-nanometer) film of samarium nickelate, which acts as the synapse channel between two platinum "axon" and "dendrite" terminals. The varying concentration of ions in the nickelate raises or lowers its conductance -- that is, its ability to carry information on an electrical current -- and, just as in a natural synapse, the strength of the connection depends on the time delay in the electrical signal.

The synaptic transistor offers several immediate advantages over traditional silicon transistors. For a start, it is not restricted to the binary system of ones and zeros.

"This system changes its conductance in an analog way, continuously, as the composition of the material changes," explains Shi. "It would be rather challenging to use CMOS, the traditional circuit technology, to imitate a synapse, because real biological synapses have a practically unlimited number of possible states -- not just 'on' or 'off.'"

The transistor modulates the information flow and at the same time physically adapts to changing signals. 

Compare to the human brain, with around 80 billion neurons, the world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines. The human mind, for all its phenomenal computing power, runs on roughly 20 Watts of energy (less than a household light bulb).

Source: Science Daily

Unpublished: 

Market society

It touches on today's Letter to the editor (debate):
Alt. A: One level of state services (all bound to one level of service)
Alt. B: Multiple levels of state services (all free to make the best choice - favors those that has the ability to 1. make the best choose, 2. pay for the best choice)

How could it work in a company?

Note that both the professor (speaker) and the article has a connection to Harvard.

Source: TED, DN

Unpublished: Availability&Lean time, Hoshin Kanri, 2, Toyota, Emotions, Episode 8.34:30, Work hours & GDP, OpenDataCensus+Excel, The logic in language

UN, Environment, Carbon prohibition laws?

Notes:
United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 1972 Stockholm (Wikipedia) --: 26 principles

Meetings: Agenda 21, Earth summit, Kyoto protocol, 
Monitors: IPCC, IPCC 2013, 
Actions: A UN sanctioned Prohibition of carbon-based release into the environment? 

Water locked in ice: 
Antarctica: +60meter, Greenland: +0.5meter



Unpublished: Exponential growth, IKEA - all in on sustainability, SolarPanelPrices

DNA programming language

Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a structured set of instructions to "program" how DNA molecules interact in a test tube or cell.

Source: link










Unpublished: Music and Poetry, Music and Bird song, Physic-Chemistry-Biology (as old as Africa&SouthAmerica), Placebo - belief works, Egg-Sperm linked to Multicellular development

Life is an molecular engine propelled by (made for) evolution

"To Nowak, evolution is a well defined process that can be described as precise mathematical equations. Nowak believes that "the same principals governing complex life forms must have been present at the earliest, simplest molecular levels otherwise the origin of life would depend on an unlikely collection of disparate random events."
-I agree.

To Nowak Early Earth's "prelife was not a primordial soup of chemicals, but an active generative phenomenon in which mutation and selection were already acting on molecules. Only when some of them began reproducing, out competing the others, did life begin."
- and a feedback system, with mainly positive disturbances and cross transfers.
--> it's a natural phenomenon 

Source: link

Unpublished: Drake formula (2013: there is a 75% chance to find ET 1.400-4.000 light years away or 0-15.785 advanced technological societies could exist in the Milky Way)

All TedX talks - creative cross overs, outliers, trends in time and age

All talks (mathematics meets biology).

Zoom in on environmental talks, topics.
Link: Ted talk, Quid software

Unpublished: Grow leather and meat, Buddhist noble 8-fold path,
Wikipedia war zones - tree of ethics/paths

A visual history of European countries

Link: ChartPorn

Unpublished: CustomerSatisfactionIndex, MapCite, ChartPorn, Emotions and chemistry

Book Summaries for free

Get the essence of a book.

Example

Links: FreeBookNotes, The Great Gatsby (example)

Unpublished: Why civilizations collapse, Unsustainable lifestyles, 30% obesity in US, Kant moral laws, DNA older than the earth, Human problem & life-length (DALY's)

Teleportation chip - Quantum communication

Aug. 14, 2013 — ETH-researchers - have managed to teleport information from A to B -- for the first time in an electronic circuit, similar to a computer chip.

Physicists at ETH Zurich have for the first time successfully teleported information in a so-called solid state system. The researchers did it by using a device similar to a conventional computer chip. The essential difference to a usual computer chip is that the information is not stored and processed based on the laws of classical physics, but on those of quantum physics.

Quantum teleportation does not transport the information carrier itself, but only the information. "Quantum teleportation is comparable to beaming as shown in the science fiction series Star Trek," says Wallraff. "The information does not travel from point A to point B. Instead, it appears at point B and disappears at point A, when read out at point B." 

In this system approximately 10,000 quantum bits can be teleported per second.

In a next step, the researchers plan to increase the distance between sender and receiver in their device. The scientists say, they will try to teleport information from one chip to another. And in the long term the goal will be to explore whether quantum communication can be realised over longer distances with electronic circuits, more comparable to those achieved today with optical systems.

Compared to today's information and communication technologies, which are based on classical physics, quantum information processing has the advantage that the information density is much higher: In quantum bits more information can be stored and more efficiently processed than in classical bits.

Source: ScienceDaily

Unpublished: Photon based Quantum teleportation with 80% accuracy, Quantum measurement barrier broken, Cancers mutation process described, heavy light