Product of the Day

[timelets]

This quote made my week because I had never thought formally about processes as products of sequential steps. This approach is, among other things, consistent with Deleuze's idea of desiring-machines and his model of reductionist [techno]science. It also explains why we make trade-offs in the production process of value creation.

Multiplication often appears in the guise of independent choices. Here is an example. Some restaurants have a list of options for the first course and another list for the second course; a ‘meal’ involves one item from each list. First courses: soup, pasta, salad. Second courses: steak, veal, chicken, fish.



This scheme with three ‘objects’ and two ‘maps’ or ‘processes’ is the right picture of multiplication of objects, and it applies to a surprising variety of situations.

--- Lawvere, Schanuel. 2009.