Tsunami problems

No progress due to tsunami in Hawaii. Yes really. That somebody I need to talk to about my project but couldn't talk to til Tuesday... well the tsunami is keeping him over in hawaii for a bit longer, so until then...

Abstract

It's looking pretty short, so if anybody has some feedback on it, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Security is ubiquitous in events and functions. Live music, is no exception. With a significant proportion of live music happening in venues prohibited to the underage crowd (most places that serve alcohol, such as bars and clubs) there becomes a clear difference between all-ages, predominately youth, events and non-all-ages/youth events. Despite the differences in the characteristics of all-ages, predominately youth crowds, the approach to security does not consider these differences. This research identifies several key aspects in which all-ages/youth events differ from non-all-ages/youth events, and the implications on security policy. This work can be used to inform future security policy regarding all-ages, predominately youth events.

Design + Business

I think I've always been struggling with trying to combine design & business into something I want to do.

I've already decided against being in-house designer. Then I've decided against traditional "doing" design. I thought about PM in ad agencies. I thought about brand strategy.

Now I'm thinking about consulting.

During my interview with Accenture, I was explaining how awesome design studies is, and talking about problem-solving vs. problem-finding, and how complicated questions have simple answers. The Sr. Manager said, "like 42?"

Yes. Exactly. Perfect analogy. Consultants get it too.

So there you have it, consultants are like DSers tackling business problems.

Narrowing down

1. type of event/crowd
Different age groups act differently.

4. intoxicated patrons
Drunk adults at least can legally be drunk, but what do you do with drunks under 21?
why not consider drug use too? if it's illegal, its illegal for both the over-21 and under-21 crowd-- no differences to be explored.

6. handling of physical disturbances
Ideally, issues would be handled before the become violent.

Protocol versus human morals:
teen getting beat up while 3 security men watch

Things to consider in security policy

Not (yet) a comprehensive list, but it's a start:

1. type of event/crowd
2. number/positions of security personnel
3. unruly patrons
4. intoxicated patrons
5. when to involve police
6. handling of physical disturbances
7. prohibited items (and what isn't allow but can be check at front desk)
8. evacuation plan
9. Documentation/incident reports

realization of limitations

So the estimated timeline on the security policy development of Vera with 206 Zulu is looking a bit out of scope for my project. It's expected to take about a year, and that doesn't even count the educational componets to be developed afterward.

TO DO:
talk to Josh some more about what and if there is something I can do for my capstone that would lend itself well into the larger picture....

procrastination

So rather than finishing up and publishing the blog post I have sitting in "draft" right now, I'm getting somewhere on my quest of developing a better articulation of myself.

I (funny enough, am actually at work, procrastinating on my project) and was doing a bit of reading into INTJs, and hoping to find strategies of putting my Myers-Briggs personality type to work for me in some productive manner.

Discovery: there's a term for my procrastination!

I am a structured procrastinator.

The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important.

Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do, they will quit procrastinating and get them done. But this goes contrary to the basic nature of the procrastinator and destroys his most important source of motivation. The few tasks on his list will be by definition the most important, and the only way to avoid doing them will be to do nothing. This is a way to become a couch potato, not an effective human being.

This explains why I insist on "doing too much" and why I don't "do anything" between Thursday night and Sunday evening, yet pull all-nighters in the middle of the week.

Last thought on this topic:

As for life in general, I think my problem is that I tend to plan things out in my head too much so that by the time it comes to do something I can't be bothered doing it because I've over-thought it and am now bored of it, or I don't want to be disappointed with how the reality compares to the perfect image in my head. It's why I put off watching films that I'm really looking forward to and doing things that I really want to do. Reality is so much less perfect, much less controllable and certainly more hard work than life in my head.

SO TRUE. This is probably why I'm not really getting anywhere on my capstone yet, although I've thought about it a lot. And explains all these "somewhere topic related but not really and I'll admit it" blog posts I've been putting up over the last couple weeks...