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Jobs-To-Be-Done Approach
Become a customer-centric organization
Jobs-to-be-done theory is straightforward: companies win in the marketplace when they create products and services that help customers get their jobs done better and/or more cheaply than competing solutions. The key to success is a deep understanding of the job-to-be-done and the needs customers have when getting that job done. Since 1991, Strategyn and innovation expert Tony Ulwick have been at the forefront of transforming jobs-to-be-done theory into a practice that achieves these goals and enables companies to systematically accelerate the creation of customer value.
Strategyn's first major success applying the jobs-to-be-done methodology came in 1994 when we helped Cordis Corporation (now a J&J company) reinvent its line of angioplasty balloon products. By understanding the job that interventional cardiologists were trying to get done (restore blood flow in an artery), we discovered a number of hidden growth opportunities and conducted a series of strategy sessions to help Cordis create a new product line. In less than 18 months, the company launched 19 new products, all of which became number 1 or 2 in the market. Cordis' market share increased from 1 percent to more than 20 percent, and its stock price more than quadrupled. This success and the process we used to achieve it was showcased in the 2002 Harvard Business Review article Turn Customer Input into Innovation.
Inspired by this and other successes, we continued the refinement of our practices, ultimately resulting in the creation of our powerful innovation process, Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI). After being introduced to jobs-to-be-done, Clayton Christensen included a chapter in his 2002 book The Innovator's Solution citing Strategyn's work in job and outcome-based thinking, market segmentation and the ODI process.
Since the creation of ODI, we've helped hundreds of product teams create new products and services with a success rate that that is five times the industry average. The approach has been effective in Fortune 1000 firms, SME, startups, and non-profit organizations. Learn more in the seminal jobs-to-be-done book by Tony Ulwick, What Customers Want.
Winning in the market requires a deep understanding of the customer's job-to-be-done. Strategyn can help you define the "job" at the right level of abstraction and formulate a winning market strategy.
Jobs-To-Be-Done Workshop
Put jobs-to-be-done theory into practice
To get acquainted with Strategyn, jobs-to-be-done thinking and ODI, we invite you to schedule a one-day Jobs-To-Be-Done Workshop and apply ODI to address a specific market challenge. In this workshop, we guide your team through a unique innovation journey, helping them interact with their customers to: (1) define the customer's job-to-be-done, (2) construct a job map that reveals hidden growth opportunities, (3) formulate a unique market strategy, and (4) envision the ultimate, breakthrough solution. Using the jobs-to-be-done interview techniques we popularized in the seminal article The Customer-Centered Innovation Map, (Harvard Business Review, May 2008), we inspire your team to grow its core markets and discover attractive adjacencies.
Call us at 855-584-2212 to learn more about this transformational Strategyn offering. With everything from workshops to market and product strategy initiatives to customized innovation programs and training, Strategyn can help your company put jobs-to-be-done theory into practice.
Call us at (855) 584-2212 to learn more about our 1-day action-learning workshop. Put jobs-to-be-done theory into practice and accelerate growth.
Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework For Innovation
Reinventing innovation
Uncovering all the customer needs in a market is extremely difficult. The jobs-to-be-done theory advances the innovation process because it makes it possible to know all the customer needs in both existing and new markets. A job-to-be-done has a beginning and an end. As such, it can be analyzed as a process: it can be broken down into process steps and analyzed, using six-sigma-like thinking, to see where customers struggle to get the job done. (See the jobs-to-be-done framework.)
It turns out that customers use between 50 and 150 metric-based desired outcome statements to describe the successful execution of a typical job-to-be-done. When looking at innovation through a jobs-to-be-done lens, these desired outcomes are the customer needs. We have developed methods to extract outcome statements from customers and built an innovation process that uses these statements as a key process input. This is where our Outcome-Driven Innovation process gets its name.
Knowing all the customer outcomes in a market (and which ones are unmet) makes it possible to systematically construct a solution that will help customers get the job done significantly better. While traditional innovation methods have a less than 20 percent success rate, our application of Outcome-Driven Innovation results in success over 80 percent of the time. This is no accident. Our jobs-to-be-done approach to innovation mitigates the risks that cause traditional innovation methods to fail. It makes it possible to know in advance of product development just how much better a new product concept will help customers get a job done.
Over the past 22 years, Strategyn has used the jobs-to-be-done framework to reinvent the entire innovation process. This has resulted in a new way to define customers, markets and needs, a new way to segment and size markets, and a new way to construct and test ideas. All these advancements are embodied in our 12-step ODI process, which is outlined to the right, showing the order in which we execute the innovation process steps. The process begins with jobs-to-be-done research that acquires the inputs (the insights and information) necessary to assure that an idea, when conceived, developed and launched, will be a winner. This is the predictive power of the jobs-to-be-done framework.
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Define the primary customer as the job executor: the person using the product to get a job done.
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Define the market as the job executor and the job they are trying to get done.
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Define customer needs as outcomes: the metrics customers use to measure success when executing the job.
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Uncover market opportunities by discovering where customers struggle to get a job done: the underserved outcomes.
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Discover the segments of customers that struggle most to get the job done, and why.
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Size the market based on the number of underserved job executors and what they will pay to get the job done perfectly.
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Evaluate competitive products against the customer outcomes to see where those products fail to get the job done well.
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Decide which segments and unmet outcomes to target for value creation and decide whether to pursue a disruptive, breakthrough, sustaining, or product improvement strategy.
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Determine what price the target customers are willing to pay to get the job done perfectly.
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Construct the product or service concept that best addresses the customer's unmet outcomes, helping the customer get the job done significantly better.
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Test the concept against all the customer outcomes to ensure it gets the job done well enough to justify the price point and win in the market.
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Position the concept to appeal to the customer's unmet outcomes and emotional jobs.
Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework For Product Development
The key to agile development
The ideal input into the product development process would be a perfectly defined product concept that would almost certainly win the marketplace. With a perfectly defined concept, there would be no need for design changes, modifications and feature creep in development. In fact, the concept that entered the development process would be the exact product exiting the process. In today's world, this is rarely the case because many of the activities that should take place during the innovation process end up getting executed, repeated, or corrected in the development process. This "pivoting" and "failing fast" mentality leads to long, expensive development cycles and it is unnecessary. Pivoting and failing fast become acceptable practices when companies cannot figure out how to get it right in the first place.
Using the Outcome-Driven Innovation process, Strategyn consistently produces robust and well-defined product concepts that require little to no change in development, thereby streamlining the development process. Strategyn clients have found that a robust product definition can cut the development cycle by up to 75 percent.
Our jobs-to-be-done approach to product and service development is unique in one other very important way: the development team is informed of all the customer-defined metrics that were used to define the product concept. In making design trade-off decisions, the team is guided by these metrics, which means the team's decisions are the right ones. In conventional development processes, designers rarely have this type of customer input. Strategyn's approach is the ultimate in agile development.
"The goal of agile development is to eliminate failures and pivots. That can only be achieved when your product concept is near-perfect to begin with."
Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework For Marketing
A new approach to market segmentation
When marketing is examined through a jobs-to-be-done lens, it becomes clear that the goal of marketing is to prove to customers that your product or service will help them get their job done better than competing solutions. This is accomplished by messaging the strengths of your existing product; the dimensions along which it gets the job done better than the other solutions that are available. While this is an important function of marketing, the ability to segment a group of customers who are trying to get a job done also offers a new way to gain competitive advantage.
Some customers struggle more than others when getting a job done. Because they struggle more, they are more underserved and are often willing to pay more for a solution that will help them get the job done better. While jobs-to-be-done segmentation provides a new and effective way to segment a market, the jobs-to-be-done milkshake marketing example made popular by Clayton Christensen does not explain the application of jobs-to-be-done theory in the way we intended. To learn where his explanation goes off track, see our blog post titled Customer Segmentation Is Soured By Milkshake Marketing.
Jobs-To-Be-Done Examples
Defining the customer's job-to-be-done
The first challenge that companies face when applying this theory is defining exactly who the customer is and what job they are trying to get done. While on the surface this seems like it should be a simple task, it is rarely the case. The job must be defined as a process; an activity that consists of a series of steps that customers take to complete a task or achieve a goal or objective. This means that the job-to-be-done is always a functional job; not an emotional job. This is an important point to keep in mind when initiating a jobs-to-be-done analysis. Here are a few jobs-to-be-done examples.
Jobs-To-Be-Done History
50 years in the making
In the 1960s, Theodore Levitt said, "people don't want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole." His point was profound: people buy products and services to accomplish a task or achieve a goal.
In the 1980's, Strategyn founder Tony Ulwick became intrigued with innovation as a process after witnessing a number of product failures while working with IBM. At the time, IBM was using metrics to improve its manufacturing process as part of its newly formed Six Sigma program. Six Sigma was focused on operations and costs, but Ulwick wondered if there was an analogous set of metrics that could be used to guide product development and revenue generation.
Shortly after leaving IBM in 1991 to focus on this issue, Ulwick realized the implication of Theodore Levitt's insight that "people don't want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole." Six Sigma focused on process improvement, and making a quarter-inch hole is a process. Ulwick concluded that by focusing on the process of making the hole instead of on the product, one could apply Six Sigma thinking to value creation. It became clear to him that new products could be designed and tested to see how well they helped customers execute the task at hand.
It was in 1992 that Ulwick first began to define a customer need as a metric that customers use to measure success when using a product to complete a task or process. This led to new qualitative and quantitative research methods to uncover these needs and to determine which are underserved. With these discoveries, his Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI) process was born.
In 1994, using ODI, Ulwick helped Cordis Corporation create a new line of angioplasty balloons. They released 19 new products, all of which became number one or two in the market. Their market share increased from 1% to over 20%. This marked the first of many successes he had using this thinking. The model was proven successful.
In 1996 Ulwick filed, and was ultimately granted, a number of patents on this process. The patents describe a method by which new product concepts are constructed and evaluated around the metrics customers use to measure success when executing a task or a process.
In 2000, and with many product successes behind him, Ulwick approached Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen about his ODI process. He thought it provided a good solution to the issues Christensen raised in his book The Innovator's Dilemma because it made the process or "job," not the customer or the product, the unit of analysis. Christensen liked the thinking.
After being introduced to jobs-to-be-done, Christensen included a chapter in his 2002 book The Innovator's Solution citing Ulwick's work in job and outcome-based thinking, market segmentation and the ODI process.
In 2005, Ulwick releases the book What Customers Want, revealing how he transformed jobs-to-be-done theory into the Outcome-Driven Innovation process.
In 2005, Christensen writes the HBR article Marketing Malpractice. The Cause And The Cure. Because of Christensen's book and subsequent articles, jobs-to-be-done theory becomes popular in innovation circles.
In 2008, Ulwick writes the HBR article The Customer-Centered Innovation Map and the MIT Sloan article Giving Customers A Fair Hearing. Both offer valuable insights into jobs-to-be-done thinking and the Outcome-Driven Innovation methodology.
In 2012, Ulwick and Jay Haynes are granted a patent for creating a method for sizing markets and pricing products based on jobs-to-be-done theory. Ulwick and Strategyn continue to transform that theory into practice.
July 2013, Tony Ulwick is granted a patent that integrates jobs-to-be-done theory and the ODI process into an enterprise solution that guides strategy and innovation decision making.


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High school football: Programs are on the rise in 3AA North region
Ben Brewer, Deseret News
In the three years since Juan Diego won its third-straight state championship in 2010, the balance of power in 3AA football has shifted to southern Utah.
No team from the current 3AA North region has advanced to the championship game the last three years, and only Juan Diego has advanced to the semifinals.
Is it a permanent shift, or can programs like Juan Diego, Bear River and Stansbury help level the playing field in 2014?
Stansbury coach Clint Christiansen, whose team has been eliminated in the quarterfinals the last three years by a St. George school, knows firsthand that closing the gap won't be easy.
"I think they have a lot more depth than we do down there. We can't afford injuries, and I think last year we ended up with eight starters out for the playoff game," said Christiansen.
Besides depth within each team, depth within the region has been just as important as three straight state titles down south. Any team can beat anyone in 3AA South on a given night, which has played out the past two years with the No. 3 seed going on to win the state championship.
That's not been the case in 3AA North in a long time.
After Juan Diego, Stansbury and Bear River, who all won seven or more games, there was a noticeable drop-off to Uintah, Tooele and Park City, who won just three games each. After that, the free fall continued to Ben Lomond, which has lost 20 straight.
To close the gap on the southern schools, collectively the entire 3AA North region needs to get better so every Friday night is a battle. Juan Diego won the region last year with a 38.6-point average margin of victory. Consistently resting starters in the second half is no way to prepare for grind-it-out games in the playoffs.
"At the end you don't want to be going on cruise control. It makes it tough if you're blowing teams out, 'cause in the first round you're going to face the nightmare, and that's why they have the advantage down there — every game has been so close," said Christiansen.
Thanks to new coaches who've helped energize struggling programs the past couple of years, the competition in 3AA North from top to bottom should be much better.
While Juan Diego and Stansbury are still the projected top two teams, the race for the No. 3 seed that Bear River claimed last year is going to be a dogfight.
Tooele should be 1,000 percent better heading into the fourth season under coach Kyle Brady. Park City figures to be exponentially better as well after coach Mike Shepherd steered the program back on course during a frustrating 2013 season.
Uintah will also be in the hunt with eight returning starters on both sides of the ball in year three for coach Cody Reutzel.
Those three programs were competitive with each other last year, but they should be more competitive with the upper-tier teams this year also.
"In the past we didn't play with those teams. In my first year it wasn't even close," said Reutzel. "Last year they beat us squarely, but we gave them a good fight. Now it's time for, we don't want to just give them a fight anymore, we want to come out of one of those games with a win."
Juan Diego takes a lot of flack publicly for being allowed to recruit as a private school, but Brady and Bear River coach Chris Wise don't want to talk negatively about the subject.
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DOHA, Qatar - China achieved what it had worked 15 years for when the World Trade Organization formally approved its membership Saturday, and the world's most populous country immediately threw its massive weight behind efforts to start new talks on liberalizing global trade.
But a consensus on a new round looked almost as distant as it did two years ago in Seattle, as the world's trading heavyweights - the United States, the European Union and Japan - staked out potentially conflicting positions on issues ranging from environmental protection to anti-dumping legislation.
On day two of their five-day meeting, trade ministers from almost all the WTO's 142 members unanimously approved China's application for membership Saturday, bringing the once-isolated communist country - and its 1.2 billion consumers - firmly into the global marketplace.
Taiwan is to be accepted on Sunday.
After a round of applause, Chinese Trade Minister Shi Guangsheng said his country will "abide by WTO rules and honor its commitments while enjoying its rights." China will become a full member of the WTO 30 days after its parliament ratifies the agreement and informs the WTO.
That may happen as soon as Sunday.
Shi added that China supported the WTO's aim to launch a new round of trade liberalization negotiations, as long as the "interests and reasonable requests of developing countries" were given "full consideration."
China's approval occurred as militants hurled Molotov cocktails, bottles and firecrackers at riot police who erected barricades and barbed wire fences in a protective shield around the WTO headquarters in Geneva. The protesters claim the WTO puts business ahead of people and hurts developing countries.
Earlier in Doha, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick signaled to he was not willing to go as far as some developing countries are demanding in one of the hottest disputes: protecting patents on medicines.
Brazil and India are leading a group of countries pushing for a declaration that nothing in WTO agreements stops them from taking action to protect public health.
The United States, Switzerland, Japan and Canada are resisting, arguing that such broad wording could allow countries to override patents on virtually any drug.
"This open-ended language would lead to mass erosion of patent protections - from pharmaceuticals to medical software - and thwart research into medicines that can save lives," Zoellick said.
Developing countries also want the talks to include so-called anti-dumping rules, which industrial nations can use to block imports sold below the market price - usually because of subsidies.
Zoellick reiterated his willingness to consider that, but insisted that "any possible work in this area discipline the unfair trade practices themselves, not just the rules for countering them."
"Support for further trade liberalization depends on our ability to ensure that a bargain on market access is not undercut by foreign subsidies or other trade-distorting practices," he said.
No progress was reported on another major issue, that of agricultural subsidies.
WTO Director General Mike Moore said no concessions were offered during the first day of talks.
"There were very, very firm positions," Moore said.
Sharp differences over agriculture between the EU, the United States and big exporting countries known as the Cairns Group contributed to the failure of the last meeting in Seattle two years ago.
The 15-nation EU has long demanded exemptions be given for payments made to its farmers that it says are to promote rural development, food safety and environmental protection.
The EU and 25 other countries, including Japan, Switzerland and Israel, issued a joint statement Saturday demanding that such special needs be given more weight in any new agenda for talks.
The latest draft under debate does state that so-called "non-trade concerns" have to be taken into account. But EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler said it read like "almost an afterthought," and insisted there must be stronger language.
Those demanding an end to direct farm subsidies were also taking a hard line.
Jim Sutton, New Zealand's agriculture minister, said everyone supports such goals as protecting the environment and aiding rural communities.
But, he added, "If they wish to have their fence posts painted white and their hedgerows trimmed, for goodness sake subsidize the trimming of hedges and the painting of fence posts. Don't subsidize the farm production and hope that some of the money will be spent on paint."
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Playwright Eve Ensler became an international phenomenon with her one-woman show, The Vagina Monologues. Now she's back with a new play about the rest of the female anatomy. It's called The Good Body, and it follows Ensler's own attempts to make peace with her aging figure.
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This is a sad day for everyone except model Miles McMillan. Lucky guy.
1. My sincere condolences everyone, Zachary Quinto is officially off the market.
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3. The couple has been rumored to be dating for a year now, but they made it public on Instagram over the weekend:
This photo caption from Miles? "My baby with baby!"
4. Last weekend, Quinto captioned this photo: "All this pretend is making me miss my real life baby. can't wait to see you soon."
5. It's all so beautiful.
6. In case you aren't familiar, Miles McMillan is a 24-year-old model who can melt your soul with one lingering glance.
7. Just, FYI.
8. Scroll down for a quick education.
9. *soul melts*
10. #tbt to that time I melted your soul.
11. Eating a sammie, meltin' your soul.
12. You get the point.
13. Ahem, anyway. It's obvious these two are meant to be.
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Had this book not been a gift, I would never have thought to pick it up. Science fiction, Jewish mysticism; these are not subjects which immediately draw most people in. I'm eternally grateful I did give this book a chance, however, for it is definately one of the best books I have ever read. Weaving together two parallel stories, (the legend of a "Golem" created to protect the Jews in Prague's Jewish Ghetto in the 1600s, and the contemporary story of the cyborg Yod), Piercy has created a view of the future a la Margaret Atwood. Yet Piercy's view of the future, while almost as threatening as Atwood's in The Handmaid's Tale, contains the ever present spectre of redemption. While the characters in He, She, and It may live in a forebidding time when corporations rule the world, they maintain a level of autonomy over their own lives, and the knowledge and power to someday create a world more suited to freedom than that in which they currently reside. Piercy's book is fascinating on a number of levels. It is simultaneously the story of a mother's love for her child and the lengths she will go to when that relationship is threatened, a strong community and the familial, religious, and communal ties that bind a group of people together, a cautionary tale of corporate domination, a fascinating hypothesis of both the possibilities and dangers of modern technology, and above all, a romance. The elements of Jewish history and mysticism add to the excitement and passion of the book, enabling the parallel Piercy draws between the past and the future to flow naturally, and add to rather than detract from the book's clarity. Nor are the characters sacrificed for a well-developed plot. Piercy spends just as much time creating the characters who enable her story as she does on the story itself. I would recommend this book to a wide audience. It is as enjoyable as any beach read, but without sacrificing readability, will leave the reader with a lot to think about. You will have no trouble understanding the book after one read, but it is the kind of book you can read many times and learn something new each time.
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One of the most astonishing things I found about Marge Piercy was that she had actually written science fiction before this. In all honesty, I would have bet serious money that she had had no contact with science since leaving high school.
At the time of this review, I am a fourth year computer science student at a major university. I have been online for the better part of a decade, and I know how computers and the people who use them work, at least to a whole order of magnitude more than the author.
Now, I will give credit where it�s due. Marge Piercy is a competent writer with good technical skill. Her characters of Shira (heroine, woman trying to find her way in the world), Malkah (mother), and Yod (android who slowly grows to be human over the course of the novel in a very fine transition) are all distinct and well fleshed out.
What aggravated me most is how totally and utterly...blind some of them were! UGG!!! There are several scenes were Shira, who recounts and describes things to the reader, does not see what is so plain and obvious and then reacts with surprise and horror when it finally dawns on her!! For example, she describes her mother to the reader, mentioning her mother�s predilection for remaining unattached and taking various partners to bed. This is a prominent point. Then she describes how �close� her mother seems to the android Yod and vice versa. And then reacts with shock several chapters later when she learns the two of them were sleeping together. I had been thinking �She slept with the android� after reading for aforementioned paragraphs. Really, it�s not Shira�s fault; she inherited it from her mother Malkah. Seriously, how thick do you have to be to react to two (it�s been a little while since I read this, so the number could be off by 2-3) cyber attacks that leave members of your community in a vegetative state, three more that KILL progressively higher ranking people, the LAST one being your own apprentice (!), with the statement �I never saw this coming� when it happens to you? That was the only time in my life I have ever thrown down a book in disgust.
The thing that killed me the most about this book was that the technology in this world was just SO illogical! For starters, Shira states right at the beginning of the book that the city sized dome she lives under (suburbs, mansions, factories, shopping district, office buildings) has no building higher than six stories, but the author gives no reason for this. I�ve come to assume it�s because the DOME is no higher than six stories. We later even see a dome built in the ruins of a contemporary city, complete with intact abandoned skyscrapers, that�s also only six stories high. Considering the angle of arch required for a self supporting dome (no mention of support columns and the like is given) the angle and ceiling height would have to be immense for a dome to cover a whole city! Shira�s home town also sports a dome, but it suffers from numerous seeming contradictions and lack of description. Now a question to all those sci fi movie buffs out there; if you were to build an android who was to protect your town both in cyberspace and reality, and you were designing it from the ground up, would you base your design on Ash/Bishop from the Alien/Aliens movies, or the T-800 from the Terminator movies? Wild guess if Mrs. Piercy agrees.
To top it all off, at the very end, Shira realizes that she cannot rebuild Yod, but for TOTALLY the wrong reasons!! The reason that Yod worked at all, we learn, is that his AI personality was designed to learn and grow like a child. It grew in accordance to what happened around it; in other words, it was subjectively based. Thus, Shira couldn�t recreate him the way he was anyway, as she�d have to duplicate his whole life! It doesn�t matter how cruel it is to bring him back against his wishes (her rationalization), it couldn�t be done anyway! And I�m not even going to go into the whole fact that he was a MACHINE, with a mechanical brain, which could have been BACKED UP(!) rather than let him be destroyed.
A final thing that annoyed me to no end was how computers were used in this world. The user seems to have a godlike ability to create whatever they want, yet these people have zero imagination in creating defences. There were even instances of things that made me say �We can stop attacks like that NOW.� Also see the back up note in the above paragraph. All in all, I got the feeling that these characters really had no clue about how computers work in the real world. Same for societies of computer users. MUCKs and MUDs have been around for 30 years or more now. And given the popularity of games like Everquest and other MMORPGs now, and the fact that people in this universe have known that age and gender can be changed for years, Yod being the first one to discover that any shape can be taken in cyberspace just flies in the face of history.
To end things, I just want to say that while the characters are well thought out, the story flows nicely, there is a great parallel story about a Golem in the 1600s and it adds a few nice twists to sci fi. On the (glaringly) bad side, we have a scientifically illogical world, characters that are dense and blind, some ravening stereotypes for lesser characters, and a complete lack of understanding of the field she bases almost all the action around. If you want a good love story, this passes for it. But if you have any real background in science, stay away and avoid the headaches.
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"He, She and It" is an intoxicating book about the future. From a technological perspective, the lives portrayed in the ultramodern societies of Tikva and the Y-S Enclave is right on target. How far away are we really from the Earth that Marge Piercy describes? With the impending war with Iraq on our heels, maybe the 2 Week War of 2017 where a terrorist launched a nuclear device that destroyed the world as we know it, is not so futuristic after all.
"He, She and It" is a love story between Shira, a woman of the modern world and Yod, a cyborg. Piercy cleverly parallels the story of Shira and Yod with that of Chava and Joseph. Joseph, the golem of Prague's Jewish ghetto in the 15th century. Although the stories of Yod & Joseph are the heart of Piercy's novel, let me also share with you the technological perspectives.
In "He, She and It", Piercy describes some of the most amazing technological advances. The first and most astonishing of those is Yod, the cyborg. Yod looks just like a human, yet he has the power of a large bomb within him. What is even more surprising about Yod is that he has feelings and the ability to learn from social interactions. In other words, Yod can teach himself from experiencing the environment.
Piercy also mentions many other new technologies that come about after enclaves of monolithic corporations replace governments (is this really so far-fetched?). There is a new field, psychoengineering, an interface between people and large artificial intelligences. Shira is able to tell time simply by thinking that she needed to know what time it was and then reading the internal clock on the corner of her cornea in an eye that has retinal implants, used to correct hereditary myopia! She is also able to project into the worldwide Net (similar to what we know as virtual reality) through a "little silver socket at her temple."
Still, Piercy mentions more. Horsicles (horse robots), moving sidewalks, float cars and zips are the transportation modalities of the future. A main chore of this modern world is to protect their data from information pirates. While people may bodily protect themselves with resin knives with hypercharged particles that are able to cut through a diamond yet not show up on any sensor. The list goes on and on.
In conclusion, "He, She and It" is a wonderfully entertaining book about love, about loss, about the future of our planet. It has the ability to make those in the field of technology stop and take a look at what we are creating versus what we really want to create. Take a read yourself and discovery the vivid imagination of Piercy.
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This one was tough-going for me because of all the anti-male propaganda slipped under the door. Normally I don't find feminist SF that hard to deal with, but my favourite novels in this subgenre are either much more direct, therefore not guilty of trying to slip misandry under the door, or focus more on the generalized positive aspects of woman rather than the generalized loathsomeness of man.
Anyway, the plot: in the future, the environment has been reduced to a wasteland, and corporations rule various scattered enclaves. Shira forsakes corporate control once she loses her son to her estranged husband, and returns to her roots: a Dome where the Jewish way of life endures and her family waits to take her in (not Israel--Israel is too radioactive for anybody at this point). Shira meets a cyborg named Yod, who has been illegally constructed and programmed by a brilliant but cold scientist named Avram and Shira's very own ramrod of a grandmother, Malkah. Sick of men, Shira becomes Yod's lover (later discovering she was not his first!), and becomes more and more involved with the politics of the Dome, as it is ever-threatened by outside forces. Yod, created as an ultimate weapon--weapon of defense, of course--has a side to his personality that Shira must learn to accept, but she does more than this when she decides to put Yod's violent capabilities to her own use, with consequences she could not foresee. Among the mix of characters are Gadi, Shira's old boyfriend, Josh, Shira's husband who has custody of their son, a no-nonsense woman warrior named Nili, and various corporate spies, assassins and villains. Meanwhile, every third chapter features Malkah relating the ancient tale of Prague's protector, The Golem, as he was said to exist in 1600. Of course, The Golem and his fable are presented as a parallel to Yod's existence, but the final fate's of each are somewhat different.
As a male reader, I did, at certain points, feel like abandoning the book--and not because it never really goes beyond the predictable, in terms of plot. It does suffer that problem; it is dramatic, but rather predictable. But the real unpalatable part for me was the negative depiction of all males anywhere. Women are virtuous, men are not. Women are gentle, men are not. Women can be trusted, men cannot. Faults found in women make them complex, well-rounded individuals, helping them down from the pedestal. Faults in men just show what's wrong with them overall, and are just another nail in the coffin. Yod's creator, Malkah--female--is responsible for the good in Yod. Yod's other creator, Avram--male--unlikeable, insensitive, cold, the ultimate negatively-drawn logical male scientist. Women have fifty different emotions, men have two. Women make sense. Men are the great mystery; they don't make sense.
So there. Further proof that a member of one gender can come up with a complete profile of the other gender and demonstrate that they have given up on trying to understand that gender, and just decide "this must be the truth". All I learned from that was that we are even less different than Marge Piercy would like to think.
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both historical fiction and sci-fi
on June 9, 2004
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This novel presents parallel stories of the Golum of Prague and the cyborg of the future, both "men" created to protect the societies in which they were "born." Both evolve beyond "creature" or "robot" to become self-aware and fall in love with a human woman, and thus become so threatening that they are destroyed by the humans they seek to embrace. As a non-Jewish reader, I was inspired to look up the history of the golum in Jewish Kabbalah legends and surprised to find out that there is a statue of the legendary golum in Prague. The story stalls in the middle third as the same-old-love-story unfolds ... tediously. I would have liked more depth and detail on the various societies Piercy hints at in the future, expecially the great masses that survive in apparent anarchy in this post-apocalyptic world. The ending is too pat; why didn't Yod disappear into the Glop? Great concept, though.
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BOOKER - Harold Norman Nicholes, 31, died Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Borger. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery in Borger by Brown Funeral Directors.
Mr. Nicholes was born July 21, 1979, in Price, Utah, to Max and Janie Wilson Nicholes. He married Melissa Vance on March 13, 1999, in Amarillo.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Lauren Nicholes, Madison Nicholes and Brianna Nicholes, all of Fritch; his parents of Borger; a brother, Joe Nicholes of Fritch; and two sisters, Katie Nicholes and Sandy Ramon, both of Borger.
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Looking for PT-17 kit or planes
Hello sorry to beat a dead horse but I am looking for a kit or plan of a Stearman pt-17 to build out of balsa, I have seen kits and plans with 70 + inch wingspans but I am looking for something around 48" or less. I would also like to power it with a gas engine . if anybody can help me with some advice I would appreciate it, I would like to start this project over this winter thank you for your time.
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I'm assuming you mean glow power. Gas engines are used for the bigger planes. There are two on outer zone at 48"ws.
Here's one of them.
Lots of good stuff on outer zone.
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Edwin thank you for your response and yes glow power or not electric. After looking at the available prints on outerzone and studying them I have come to the conclusion that I am not ready for that sort of project I am woefully uneducated about many terms and procedures that the plan seems to think I should already know. So I am putting those plans in a file for later use. Moving forward I would like to say that I have not built a balsa plane in over 30 years. Since my job requires much traveling i have not had time for a hobby. However I am planning an early retirement so I would like to start building RC glow plug powered scale models but I will now look for a kit (wingspan less the 50"). I prefer laser cut parts either with the kit or available for the plan through a second party. I enjoy ww II aircraft maybe some one can recommend a kit in any of the following aircraft that I enjoy most. The kit can have retracts or fixed gear. I like the following aircraft: P-39 ,Curtiss Hawk 75, P-40B, F4F-3, P-51B, the Italian fiat G50 early or the Macchi M.C.200 Saetta. I also like twin's engine aircraft Like the P-38, B-25 or the Mosquito. I thank you for your time and expertise R/Mike
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Hi! I have one of the Guillows PT-17 kits that I'd part with. The box isn't all that pretty but all of the parts are there. If you're interested, I'm asking $50 delivered in ConUS.
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Warbird kits that small are pretty rare. I would suggest .60 sized warbirds. They fly fine on a .60 2-stroke or .90 4-stroke. The top flight kits at tower would be a good choice. Their instructions give good tips on building. Otherwise, you might have to go with a kit cutter. Things to remember when building is alignment, check it through out the build. I also check cg during the build, it helps when doing equipment placement. A flat building board is priority one. Hardware stores sell 2'x4' shelf board that is formica on both sides. any questions, just ask here and somebody will know the answer.
You don't list where you are. I have a PT-17 That is stripped down and needs a bunch of TLC to get it back in the air. Too big to ship economically. It's from an old Sterling kit with a 65 inch wing span. It needs a lot of work but the complicated building part is already done.
If you are going to be in the Detroit area let me know and maybe we can work something out.
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Thank you all your help has been amazing , however it is sad to me at what has happen to the sport. I know foam and plastic are the norm today but there is nothing more amazing to me then looking at all those detailed models made of balsa they are and were amazing when I was a kid in the 70's the magazines of the time were filled with models, kits and plugs for all kinds of things. The internet has done great things with the ability to get information but the sport it seems is ever changing. I cannot tell you how many internet searches I did for the PT-17 and Alien aircraft never came up! Thanks you IWC it looks like a real nice kit. Edwin I like Top Flight but thought they have to many plastic parts however after you mentioned them I looked at their instruction book and was surprised that they are like 90 % balsa (pleasantly pleased) I did not know what Kit Cutter was (I thought it was a genetic term for a laser cutter company that cuts to plans) anyway I binged it and was very pleasantly surprised to find a very large diverse selection of balsa kits it will take me hours to go through it but once again some great information. Detroit Dave I live in North Carolina, the southern most eastern part a little town called Moyock right on the Virginia boarder (Chesapeake VA) anyway thanks again guys for the information it will take me awhile to decide on my first kit but it will be a fun decision !R/MoyockMike
I have a couple kits that might interest you. I have the Sig Senior and the Senorita. If you are interested just give me a shout.
The Senior is a lot bigger than people think. Transporting a wing that big can be a problem for the small car community. It's one piece and almost 80 inches is a lot of wing.
I know you are probably set on glow power however, you should give electrics a try. You'll never go back (IMHO)
You can't go wrong with the Alien Aircraft kits and you can purchase the combo unit which includes the electrics to get you started.
Also, try this link:
It's a short kit from Manzano Laser. Designed by Aerodrome RC. They too are an excellent line of kits.
OBTW, there still are some of us "Balsa Builders" still out here.
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Joined Aug 2012
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That Alien PT-17 kit is just exquisite. The built up engine is a work of art. For someone just getting back into building, this seems like the right choice to me. Look at the build manual, you can download it at the link.
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