Author’s Diary

1. Friday 12/9/16 — Installed piwik on my meritology.com server. Piwik is an open source web analytics platform that does not depend on or send any information to any...
2. Wednesday 12/7/16 — To make progress on the ICED17 paper, I continued to modify and add to “Negotiating Team Roles and Responsibilities” chapter, pushing the emphasis on the...
3. Saturday 12/03/16 — I spent most of the daylight hours getting the p5.js-widget editor styled and formated the way I want – consistent with the rest of the...
4. Friday 12/02/16 — I was able to get syntax highlighting on this web site. Before, the WebPPL editor was treating all the <pre><code>...</pre></code> blocks as WebPPL code. I...
5. Wednesday 11/30/16 — I started out on extending the code in the Team Negotiation model (production process), but got side-tracked on writting sections in the Functional Programming chapter....
6. Monday 11/28/16 — Wrote a good portion of a draft for the ICED17 conference paper (due 12/17). Much of the method and model material was drawn from the...
7. Sunday 11/27/16 — Continued coding the stochastic WebPPL model for a simplified process design + production process for the Team Design project. Added matching function for Joints, and...
8. Saturday 11/26/16 — Did a lot of coding today on a stochastic WebPPL model for a simplified process design + production process for the Team Design project. Got...
9. Friday 11/25/16 — Today was spend mostly reading on Community Psychology and Design for Sustainability (and Sustainable Behavior). I also fixed the resizer bug, where the controls were...
10. Thursday 11/24/16 — The productive time for today (Thanksgiving) was spend bug fixing on this website, and also writing two Security blog posts. I’m quite a bit behind...
11. Wednesday 11/23/16 — All of today and some of last night was spent installing and configuring a static search engine. I was lucky enough to find a user’s...
12. Tuesday 11/22/16 — I spent time writing and rewriting titles and abstracts for the Journal of Strategy Science special issue: “Strategy and the Institutional Environment”. I’m going back...
13. Monday 11/21/16 — I spend an hour sketching my writing/research plan for the next two months (in addition to dissertation work):
14. Saturday 11/19/16 — I wrote a long section in Individual Performance in a Simple Functional Ecosystem on Functional Ecosystems. But it really belongs in a different chapter. Good...
15. Friday 11/18/16 — To “Foundations” chapter in dissertation, I am adding a section on Ecologies and Ecosystems. Added some general description of (bio-environmental) Ecology, and influence of Population...
16. Thursday 11/17/16 — Wrote some good stuff in the opening sections of Individual Performance in a Simple Functional Ecosystem, including a sketch of the single Actor learning and...
17. Tuesday 11/15/16 — Continuing from yesterday, I plan to write some dissertation pages in the “Foundations” chapter, focusing on institutional innovation.
18. Monday 11/14/16 — I want to write some dissertation pages in the “Foundations” chapter, focusing on institutional innovation, primarily from reft:padgett_emergence_2012, reft:ostrom_understanding_2009, reft:north_understanding_2010, and reft:thornton_institutional_2012.
19. Sunday 11/13/16 — I want to write some dissertation pages, but I haven’t decided which ones or how much. I might start with putting in a bunch of...
20. Saturday 11/12/16 — Yesterday and last night, I mostly worked on website features, including making the BrowserFS file system “InMemory” for added security (easy!), adding a cookie notification...