It might be better to include a parachute above the rotors.

The Cirrus SR22 single engine aircraft has this (their system's called CAPS.) It lets you sail to the ground in the event of some catastrophic failure preventing you from landing the aircraft safely. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_SR22

Would the airplane parachute be scalable to large commercial jets? I assume the fuel costs of carrying the extra parachute weight are too great but curious about the engineering.

Nobody has made a parachute remotely large enough. The engineering challenges are quite unknown.

I suspect the parachute would be far too heavy. Also, jets fly very fast, and the jerk when the chute opens would likely rip things apart.

The way I think about economic systems is

- Level of business regulation. From left wing Marx style central production control to pure capitalism.

- Level of redistribution of wealth. From high taxation with redistribution of wealth and strong infrastructure for all citizens (think Sweden or Denmark) to low taxation.

I believe some form of capitalism mixed with somewhat aggressive redistribution of wealth would yield the highest productivity and the most humane society. This is basically how Sweden operates.

"- Level of business regulation. From left wing Marx style central production control to pure capitalism."

This is about private property. Marxists deny the right for individuals or companies to own the "means of production".

"- Level of redistribution of wealth. From high taxation with redistribution of wealth and strong infrastructure for all citizens (think Sweden or Denmark) to low taxation."

This is also about private property because aggressive redistribution of wealth is by definition impinging on the right to accrue private property.

"I believe some form of capitalism mixed with somewhat aggressive redistribution of wealth would yield the highest productivity and the most humane society. This is basically how Sweden operates."

This is socialism which sits in the middle of the one dimensional spectrum of economic systems.

Also how do you define productivity? Because I assure you that a sweatshop is more productive per dollar than any shoe factory in Sweden.

Unless you mean maximizing the sum productivity and humanity at the expense of one or the other. But humanity is a little harder to quantify eh? :)

No matter how high taxes are, if you let people in a first world country work with whatever they want, you're not going to end up with university educated professionals in a shoe sweat shop. If they work in a sweatshop in Sweden, it will be one of clothing design, software engineering, or some other line of work producing many orders of magnitude more value per hour where they can make some solid money for themselves while paying a significant amount of taxes.

And yes, of course I believe that productivity and happiness are two different things and that they need to be balanced. I don't believe in trickle down economics, or that they are two different facets of the same variable on a linear axis that somehow move in unison as you slide left/right up/down.

You can probably quantify humanity (like the Gross National Happiness people are trying to do) somehow, but it's of course not going to resemble true science. I do think there are some basic markers of a civilized society that I have a hard time understanding how some people disagree with though. These include public access to nature and beaches, good education for everyone, good healthcare for everyone, etc. To me, this is a separate _economical_ issue from how much the government meddles in the work life of its citizens. If it's easy for you to think of these issues on one axis be my guest, but it is not a mental model that works well for me.

Cheers!

I grew up in Sweden and I second that. Stockholm imo is literally paradise on earth three months per year, especially the archipelagos. I've never seen a place like it, unbelievably beautiful, people are so full of life, you can wear a t-shirt at 5am, temperature is perfect, and so forth.

The problem is that the rest of the year it's pretty miserable weather wise. You notice a huge difference if you visit Swedish friends in the Winter and Summer, they're just totally different people.

I love snow and I don't mind the cold much. It's the darkness that is an issue. Some people go to hospitals to get "light therapy" and even if you live in Stockholm (which is rather far south) you'll probably have 15 minutes of sunlight per day - on your way to and from lunch. It will be dark when you go to work, and dark when you come home.

I'm Swedish and I emigrated first from Sweden to France and then France to the US. I can't speak about going the other way, but having done this twice I think it takes a long time to make _real_ friends with locals almost anywhere if you are past college. Lots of interesting people are busy and have limited time.

If you're a kid or in a primarily social environment like college it's obviously a bit different. I moved both for college and my first job and made tons of friends right away, some of which I still stay in touch with.

I went to the best physics program in Sweden. It was pretty amazing and at something like $50 per year essentially free. In addition, the government provided ~$300 per month in assistance plus a low interest ~$900 loan.

Any good policy or form of governance (including socialism) will look bad if executed poorly.

Yeah, Jobs did the same thing. There are plenty of people that feel they want to get that psychological tumor out of their lives after being fired and I think it's understandable even if it's not entirely rational in all cases. I'd probably do the same myself.

I guess the only consequence being resentment from the people close to you, and missed opportunities to develop deep lasting relationships.

As a Swede I can honestly say that for all intents and purposes Sweden, Norway and Denmark are all the same and we love each other.

Thanks for sharing your structure!

My feeling is that it's maybe more important which states and principles one has and that everyone understands them than whether they reside in one or four projects. Personally, I think it's a bit easier to focus if I only have to look at the stuff that is relevant at the moment, but I see where you're coming from.

How did you chose the number of slots: 5, 15, 10, 7 and 20?

we started with some that seemed reasonable, and then we modify them after some weeks of use.

Author here: I agree Kanban boards have benefits. I've helped other people implement the system I described in Trello as well.

Personally, I think it's harder to get an overview of what's going on in Trello - especially on a small screen. I also think it's too complicated to move things around in Trello, and that the structure doesn't lend itself well to things that are not processes/pipelines.

In the end, the tool is just there to support the principles/processes that are there to support the people. Hope you got something out of the article that you can use in your tool of choice!