False CognitiveEST·2012 · APIA
№ 002 — What We BelieveA manifesto in thirteen moves

Engineer for life
in the Samoan Islands.

You don't solve a Samoan problem with a Californian algorithm. You engineer for the village, the matai, the island — and only then for the machine.

№ 003 — The Stack13 moves · read top-to-bottom
If you have genuine technology solutions that are
for our island geography,Localized
for our villages, matai system,Regionalized
and
designed to manage the unique complexity of both
Business continuity in the private sector,
Operational transparency in government,
Single point of failure island supply chains,
and
the human factors of our Fa'a Samoa,
many problems in the Samoan Islands
systemic to business and government services could truly be solved.
How?
You engineer for the life experience of our people.
Yes, really.
№ 004 — Principle

Optimize for local experience.

Leverage workflows and create localized custom algorithms that develop best practices, increase worker morale, reduce complexity, and drive consistency in delivery of business and government services in the Samoan Islands.

№ 005 — The Three SealsInterface · Process · Continuity

Interface

SEAL · I

Design patterns employees find familiar — and love. Reduce training time, reduce cost, increase adoption rate.

Process

SEAL · II

Workflows and algorithms that remove thinking from the repeatable. Anybody can do anybody's job.

Continuity

SEAL · III

Architecture that makes business continuity and government transparency the default, not an audit finding.

№ 006 — The Big IdeaFrozen Truths · 1 + 1 = 3
1+1=3

The breakout moment.

Frozen truths are the assumptions we stop examining — the defaults that every outside vendor smuggles into their software. Thaw them, and a new shape of software appears: one built for the Samoan Islands, not adapted to it.

FROZEN TRUTH · 01 — "Scale is universal."FROZEN TRUTH · 02 — "One login per human."UNFROZEN · 03 — "A matai is a context."
Close

Yes, really.

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