Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

Peter Burgess getting back in touch ... and thinking about TAU

Peter Burgess Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:27 PM To: Doug McDavid

Dear Doug

It is quite a while since we last communicated ... but I still remember you being quite nice to me about my efforts. Maybe this was undeserved!

This essay summarizes where I think I am ... but even though it is quite recent, it is already out of date because of ongoing thinking about the subject! http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/TVM-Short-Introduction-to-7D-Capitalism-and-MDIA-141212a.pdf

This is another essay that is in process ... written for the attention of some of the Church leaders at my Church in Manhattan who will be talking on Sunday about the financial state of the Church. I am arguing that we should also be talking about the value dynamic of the Church! http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/BurgessWIP/TVM-MDIA-The-Purpose-of-Church-The-ESE-Dynamic-of-Church.pdf

I feel that maybe there is an opportunity to engage with your TAU thinking in some way. My guess is your brain handles complexity better than my own ... but that being said, it looks like I have moved quite close to the TAU framework, albeit in a very simplified or watered down version.

I am pleased with the amount of effort that is going on to rethink the performance of much of corporate business ... but rather little of this effort gets down to the accounting, the measurements and very simple yet rigorous reporting.

Exciting times

Peter

Doug McDavid Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 6:48 PM To: Peter Burgess

Hi Peter -- Yes it has been a long while since we last communicated. And I'm sure I'm the one who dropped the ball at the time. I have been through a whole series of attempts to get a livable revenue stream going since IBM set me free, back in 2008. At the time we last were communicating I had embarked on the biggest mistake in the whole sorry episode, and I had thrown myself headlong into this foolishness. (I do that -- the headlong bit!). In order to do this I had stopped my focus on TAU (and more specifically the service-backed currency I was exploring to create).

Anyway, that was then, this is now. It's really great to hear from you again, and great to see how your work is progressing. At a point in the short-term future we should get on a Skype or other kind of call and catch up interactively. In the meantime, I have started going through the document you sent, so as to be up to speed to that extent. What I should do is point you toward my main focus of work at this moment. I finally bit the bullet and said that come hell or high water I am going to break the habit of earning a living on someone else's agenda while trying to work my passion in the background. There's a lot to this, but the most successful thing so far is this 'blog', which is a blog in form only: http://yourhealthybusiness.blogspot.com/ I have reconnected with my old boss from my days in IBM Research, and the founder of http://www.issip.org/ . He quickly moved me into his inner circle for a push to take this organization to the next level. As one result of that, I just signed a book contract with Business Expert Press to make a book out of that blog that's not a blog. You might want to take a look at this section: http://yourhealthybusiness.blogspot.com/2014/09/health-factors-for-life-of-your-business.html , along with the 3 long-form postings that I have created through my LinkedIn profile in recent days.

Already that's getting complicated, so maybe we could set up a chat early next week? I think we've Skyped before? Or I can give you a call on a convenient number.

Thanks again so much, and looking forward to picking back up.

Doug

So that is the main focus -- Skype: dougmcdavid Mobile: 916-549-4600

Peter Burgess Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:44 AM To: Doug McDavid

Dear Doug

I would very much like to talk to you again ... sooner rather than later, perhaps. I am available pretty much all the time except for a few errands that get in the way ... 9 am say to midnight almost every day ... New York time that is.

The migration of your work is interesting ... and I can relate to it. I have a feeling that you might have been more successful than I have been at moving your efforts into something that helps to pay the rent! Well done.

I think the architecture of what you are now doing is a little bit similar to the architecture that I have embraced. Idea of what evolves in a website eventually becoming a 'book' is something that I have considered ... though maybe the other way round. I kept finding that the process of trying to write a book changed my thinking so much that a new book was required ... !!!

The money-centric business model for my work is problematic. Most initiatives looking at the metrics of performance in our enviro-socioeconomic system have a singular focus on the business. I believe that we have to look at performance not only from the business perspective but from many other perspectives. Why, for example, is there an existential threat to a free thinking and prosperous world because of the rise of AQ and ISIS? Why in a world with amazing progress in technology do we have a huge amount of abject poverty, disease , etc? I argue that part of this is that we have dysfunctional decision making and that for this to be improved we need to have relevant data. How to do it is getting easier ... but I am not sure I have the brain-power to make it happen!

Exciting times ... lets talk at your convenience

Peter

Monday 10.30 am EST ... TPB sent Skype message: Is a skype call convenient sometime today or tomorrow?