Analysis

Analysis (What)

Analysis involves breaking something into parts, analyzing these parts, and the relationship between the parts.

In more detail, analysis involves

  1. Breaking something into parts: This is the initial step of decomposing the whole into its constituent elements.
  2. Analyzing these parts: This involves examining each individual element closely, evaluating its properties and characteristics.
  3. The relationship between the parts: This final step focuses on understanding how these individual elements interact and influence each other within the whole system.

Examples

Examples of Complex Things: 1. Jet engine, DC motor. 2. Writing a best-selling novel. 3. Doing a startup. 4. The song “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin. 5. The subject of statistics, learning statistics. 6. Changing a business from struggling to super awesome. 7. Transforming decisive politics into collaborative politics.

Rationale: If something is hard or difficult or complex, break it down into its components or parts so that it is easy to understand or build or improve or whatever.

Examples of Analysis

  1. Breaking down the subject of statistics into its component parts (main ideas) so that statistics is easy to understand, to learn, and to teach.

  2. In the context of Startup, break a business down into its main parts so that it is easy to understand and to build.

  3. When developing a big code base for a system like Amazon, for example, break the coding down into chunks of code that work together such that the overall computer system works insanely well.

How to Do Analysis

Analysis is a method.

A Methods has (set of actions) that cause a (set of benefits).

Thus, analysis has (set of actions) that lead to (recognition of the parts of the system + simplicity + understanding + more!)

The (set of actions) associated with analysis are:

  1. Ask and answer this question: What are the essential parts of the system?

  2. As needed, engage in Secondary Research, which is the process of getting good information from other people by asking questions, watching videos, reading web articles, reading books, and so on.

  3. Document your thinking

    1. Write down your ideas; see the Law of Writing.
    2. Sketch a System Diagram.

  4. Iteration

    1. Measure the Quality of your analysis
      1. Can we see all the parts?
      2. Can we see how the parts work together?
      3. Is your system diagram super simple and obvious?
        1. Simple enough to explain to a child?
        2. Would a master say you nailed it?
    2. If the quality is high enough, then stop. Otherwise, loop back to the previous action.