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Sunday: Walks!
Apr. 10th, 2022 11:00 pmA. and I walked with M. and F. We did two loops. It was a little windy, but otherwise beautiful and the conversation was delightful! It is so nice to get to see them.
I walked with M. We did our regular walk. It was still windy, and still otherwise beautiful.
A.’s online playdate with K./B. was a little late, and they had some technical difficulties, but it sounded like they had a lot of fun.
Family Zoom was well attended and the conversation was enjoyable and productive.
I cooked another chicken with root vegetables.
I’m reading _Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol_ by Mallory O’meara and it is really fun and informative.
I finally finished the Lego The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle while listening to a couple podcasts with interviews with Dirck T. Schou of Taqtile. I specifically went looking for AR being used to improve safety and communication around heavy machinery (in a manufacturing, construction or waste context) and found one in a CPG (consumer packaged goods) oriented podcast, and then found another in a “deskless work” context. I was thinking more about replacing hearing protection in these contexts with a system that would improve communication. However, Taqtile is instead replacing eye protection with a system to replace / reduce the need for training to maintain equipment, and also to provide an audit and inspection trail to show to the customer that the work was done and done properly. In a 5G in the field context, this would still work, and even enable contact with a remotely located expert in the event that more assistance is needed to understand how to do the work. I learned the phrase “The Silver Tsunami” (boomers with long careers in these contexts retiring en masse and employers struggling to replace them with anyone at all, much less with the level of expertise these workers had at the end of their careers). I also learned a bit more about functional automation in unexpected areas. This whole tangent of learning started with twitter and discussions of forklifts, pallets and trucks that have cranes built into them making our military much more able to accomplish goals with a far smaller number of people, more of whom could be women because the work was less about repetitively lifting and moving heavy objects. Once again, however, experience in the armed forces comes up in the context of maintenance. If you need young people with limited experience to do maintenance, you may need one to do the touching and another to hold up the instructions and provide guidance. With an AR system, you are back to just needing the one to do the touching.
I walked with M. We did our regular walk. It was still windy, and still otherwise beautiful.
A.’s online playdate with K./B. was a little late, and they had some technical difficulties, but it sounded like they had a lot of fun.
Family Zoom was well attended and the conversation was enjoyable and productive.
I cooked another chicken with root vegetables.
I’m reading _Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol_ by Mallory O’meara and it is really fun and informative.
I finally finished the Lego The Bad Batch Attack Shuttle while listening to a couple podcasts with interviews with Dirck T. Schou of Taqtile. I specifically went looking for AR being used to improve safety and communication around heavy machinery (in a manufacturing, construction or waste context) and found one in a CPG (consumer packaged goods) oriented podcast, and then found another in a “deskless work” context. I was thinking more about replacing hearing protection in these contexts with a system that would improve communication. However, Taqtile is instead replacing eye protection with a system to replace / reduce the need for training to maintain equipment, and also to provide an audit and inspection trail to show to the customer that the work was done and done properly. In a 5G in the field context, this would still work, and even enable contact with a remotely located expert in the event that more assistance is needed to understand how to do the work. I learned the phrase “The Silver Tsunami” (boomers with long careers in these contexts retiring en masse and employers struggling to replace them with anyone at all, much less with the level of expertise these workers had at the end of their careers). I also learned a bit more about functional automation in unexpected areas. This whole tangent of learning started with twitter and discussions of forklifts, pallets and trucks that have cranes built into them making our military much more able to accomplish goals with a far smaller number of people, more of whom could be women because the work was less about repetitively lifting and moving heavy objects. Once again, however, experience in the armed forces comes up in the context of maintenance. If you need young people with limited experience to do maintenance, you may need one to do the touching and another to hold up the instructions and provide guidance. With an AR system, you are back to just needing the one to do the touching.