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What I learned by Creating Systems for Five Decades

Principles to save you thousands of person-hours and a small fortune.

Jim Kitzmiller

If you use some of the principles in this book, you can save your company thousands of person-hours and a small fortune.

The wisdom in this book is based on studies and experience spanning a wide variety of systems including software systems, personal empowerment systems, creativity systems, meditation systems, and self-expression systems.

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As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

By using some of the principles of this book, you will leverage off of the author's 100,000 hours of experience creating systems.

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Jim Kitzmiller

Jim Kitzmiller empowers joy, creativity, and productivity both in corporate settings and private retreats.

He is a systems architect, a software developer, and an author.

With decades of experience in the computer industry, Jim has repeatedly found simple solutions to complex problems.

Simple solutions save clients enormous amounts of time and money.

This ability to identify simple solutions also applies to the self-help / personal development area. Simple solutions, working at the essence of beingness, can save decades of struggle and vast sums of money.

Jim’s guided meditations on YouTube and his blog have had well over a million views and have brought countless heartfelt testimonials filled with gratitude.

Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

  1. IWelcome

1Welcome aboard!

2Welcome

3Release Cycles

  1. 3.1Waterfall Technique
  2. 3.2Spiral Technique
  3. 3.3Continuous Release
  4. IIObserving

4Essential Data

  1. 4.1Tableau

5Junk Data

6Presenting Data

7Perceptions

  1. 7.1Look Upstream
  2. 7.2Look to the Sides
  3. IIIBasics

8Causes and Effects

9Simplify Systems

10Systems Include People

  1. IVEstimates

11Estimates

12Sign-off phobia

13Feature creep

14The world economy is a system.

15Know What Game You’re Playing

  1. 15.1World Events

16Security and Privacy

  1. 16.1Computer Viruses
  2. 16.2Ransomware
  3. 16.3Virtual Private Networks
  4. 16.4Private and Secure Email
  5. 16.5Containers
  6. 16.6A Reasonably Secure OS

17Don’t Be a Pioneer

18Achilles Heels

  1. 18.1Infrequent backups
  2. 18.2Dependence on hosting company
  3. 18.3Dependence on Cloud Provider
  4. 18.4Dependence on a tool
  5. 18.5Bank Accounts Vulnerable
  6. 18.6Unencrypted Internet connection
  7. 18.7Unencrypted email
  8. 18.8Spying
  9. 18.9Politics
  10. 18.10Facebook spying
  11. 18.11High crime neighborhood
  12. 18.12Limited number of customers
  13. 18.13Cash reserves less than three months operating expenses
  14. 18.14Cash reserves in one place
  15. 18.15Breaking changes where an update pf your software tools causes your software to stop working
  16. 18.16Only one of a necessary item
  17. 18.17Reliance on a vendor. Consider Open Source,
  18. 18.18Intermingling systems. Consider Containers such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Qubes OS

19See the Value of What You Have

  1. Appendix

About Jim Kitzmiller

Jim’s Software Systems

  1. Business Management System
  2. Money Status System
  3. Report Blaster
  4. HOTS (Hughes Online Tracking System)
  5. Trucking Company System
  6. Plating Company System

Jim’s Empowerment Systems

  1. Intuitive Chi
  2. MultiDimensional Chi
  3. Two different meditation systems
  4. Novel Writing Course
  5. Bliss Exercises
  6. Bliss Writing
  7. Mozart Flow

Jim’s Consulting Services

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