In “The Intellectual Production of Engineers,” he used the metaphor “[Stack boxes on top.
- Various terms are used to refer to concepts, such as abstraction, creating models (modelling (e.g. a system, etc.)), Finding Patterns, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
- These words are Labeling for experience, so people who haven’t experienced it won’t get it.
- I know it’s impossible, but I’m forcing myself to explain it in words.
- 上に積む.icon]The concept of [[piling on.icons can only be acquired by water piling on.icons.
A more detailed expression is Cumulative effect of ideas.
This “lower box” is first described in the storyline of the engineer’s intellectual production techniques as being obtained through “information gathering”
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collect and arrange But not only that, there are boxes obtained by trial and error.
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Often neglected because it is difficult to see, but important
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This means information obtained from “My experience” by trying it out for yourself.
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The emergence of a service that provides knowledge streamlined the collection from Already written knowledge.
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As a result, the importance of “Trial and error difficult to see” will increase even more.
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The higher the concept, the less likely it is to become obsolete.
- - [[PDCA and error back propagation]]
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