Why Use Public Peer-Review to Write a Book? - "See For Yourself"
Statement of Audience, Purpose, & Process for All Readers
This pinned post provides a description of audience, purpose & process for this Substack newsletter as a post as well as a downloadable pdf file.
Primary Audience:
The next generation of entrepreneurially-minded individuals, and members of their business ecosystem.
Origins:
The author’s entrepreneurial experience, and study from the 1970s to the Present.
Focus:
What do entrepreneurs need to know in order to make good individual, business, and investment decisions?
Purpose
Provide readers with “Tools, Checklists & Processes” developed over a lifetime of learning to “See for Yourself” so they can trust their own observations, make their own accurate “Predictions”, and reach their own good decisions.
How to Read These Posts:
Readers can use the chronology of posts as follows:
o Individual posts started on January 8, 2022 highlight key ideas that eventually became a book draft in three Volumes. Volume 1 has five workbooks, Volume 2 has five handbooks, and Volume 3 starts with five Notebooks, and counting.
o Posts starting from May 4, 2022 present the first draft of all five workbooks in Volume 1, at the rate of one two-page section per day, and in the form of downloadable pdf files.
o Posts starting from September 17, 2022 show the first round of edits from public peer-review for these two-page sections in Volume 1.
· Readers interested in Part IV: Making Good Investment Decisions should look at the posts that start on November 15, 2022, and end on January 9, 2023.
o Posts starting from January 17, 2023 provide first drafts (mostly “Author Profiles”) for Volume 2.
o Posts starting from Feb. 2, 2023 presents the edits from public peer-review for Volume 1 - Part V: The Template for Reading Research Papers as a stand-alone Workbook.
o Posts starting from April 3, 2023 present the edits from public peer-review for the Workbook titled: Volume 1 - Part I: Our Shared Humanity.
o Posts starting from June 14, 2023 present the edits from public peer-review for the Workbook titled: Volume 1 - Part II: Making Good Individual Decisions
o Posts starting from July 14, 2023 present the edits from public peer-review for the Workbook titled: Volume 1 - Part III: Making Good Business Decisions
o Posts starting from August 1, 2023 present the edits from public peer-review for the Workbook titled: Volume 1 - Part IV: Making Good Investment Decisions
What keeps these Posts Current?
Reading - to summarize in plain English & clear mathematics - health, wealth, & statistics research for CTRI members.
What is CTRI?
The author’s current venture, started in 2018:
o A membership-based, research & development, not-for-profit association.
Reason for these Posts:
Develop a publicly peer-reviewed book.
Peer-Review Process:
The book comes in three volumes:
Volume 1, a book of connections, has five Parts (thus five Workbooks) that include:
Our Shared Humanity
Making Good Individual Decisions
Making Good Business Decisions
Making Good Investment Decisions
The Template for Reading Research Papers
Volume 2, a book of collections, regroups glossary entries, author profiles, and “Tools, Checklists & Processes” from Volume 1 in five Handbooks.
Volume 3, a book of illustrations, uses the “Tools, Checklists & Processes” from Volumes 1 & 2 to write a growing number of Reading Notes about research topics suggested by readers & CTRI members. These Reading Notes include: (i) Living with Model Risk, (ii) Averages and the Quantitative Neglect of Clinical Individual Ambiguity, (iii) From Lotka’s Wheel and Beyond: The Primacy of Energy Flows, (iv) The Limits of Asset Allocation, (v) The “Fast & Slow” Retractions of Behavioral Economics, etc.
Free Substack readers have access to the daily publication of the two-page sections and author profiles.
Subscribing Substack readers receive the complete pdf files, paginated for two-sided printing, for the Workbooks associated with Volumes 1, 2, & 3.
CTRI Members have first access to content, and direct the pace & focus of the project.
Comments are open to all.
Closing Note to Answer a Question from a Reader: Why don’t you opine on the News?
You likely noticed that these Substack posts, and matching workbooks do not make comments on the News, but instead focus on foundational “Axions, Assumptions & Hypotheses” in order to develop “Tools, Checklists, Processes” that readers can use to “See for Yourself”. Reasons include:
Life Lives Locally:
- Rodolfo LLinás showed that our embodied, reality emulators (“Brains”) operate in the here-and-now, managing “Motions” through “Predictions”, subject to time, space, and sensory limitations. Additionally, John Boyd showed that these reality emulators use our unique histories of emotional “Amplifications” and “Suppressions” to “Orient” the direction of their decisions. This individual localization in time and space places a lower-bound on useful communications Finally, Marshall McLuhan showed that “Media” filters our “Perception”, and can be used intentionally by others to create “Willful Ignorance, Error & Deceit”. This Substack newsletter provides readers “Tools, Checklists & Processes” to “See for Yourself”, instead of making personal comments on the News. Readers know best about what to use, and what to do given their specific time, and place in the flow of their own life.
Decisions Come from Personal “Predictions”:
- Decisions create ownership of the good, and responsibility for the bad. This personal responsibility places an upper-bound on personal opinions that one can respectfully share with other people: If one overplays the communication of personal opinions with “Misdirection” or “False Reconstruction” in order to achieve conviction, who bears the responsibility when the results do not match expectations? Readers’ individual clinical ambiguities trump prescriptions from ensemble averages.
Survival Comes from Embodied “Motions”:
- Modeled “Predictions” based on probabilities have the ability to hallucinate, and move to the unlivable extremes in the absence of the discipline provided by embodied “Motions”. Thus, these posts, and workbooks navigate the “Middle-Muddle” between the upper & lower bounds described earlier by (i) Exploring foundational “Axioms, Assumptions & Hypotheses” to (ii) Develop “Tools, Checklists, Processes” that can help all of us (iii) See the “Willful Ignorance, Error & Deceit” that come from (iv) Unresolved “Puzzles, Paradoxes & Anomalies” in order to (v) Make good “Individual, Business & Investment Decisions”.
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