The first of two starting points for this post is David Evans’s An ‘Unacceptable’ Degree? in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Evans is discussing hiring practices and the rejection of potential candidates who lack a “trophy degree.” One of the commentators mentions several reasons that a candidate would be rejected that, even if shared, wouldn’t [...]
In the serendipity of looking through various RSS feeds, I came across Don Vandergriff’s recent post, The Best Leadership Article I have Seen, which reprints and links to William Deresiewicz’s lecture Solitude and Leadership posted on The American Scholar. I agree with Vandergriff that it is a very timely and thought provoking piece of writing. [...]
To date, the internet and technology have had some major impacts on the where and when of shopping for clothes but have not fundamentally changed the process. What existed before as catalog shopping pretty much transferred to web-based catalogs of clothes and shopping online. The process became more convenient, the ability to search and compare [...]
The other day I was browsing a post by Chet Richards (Certain to Win) at Defense and the National Interest on 4GW comes to a town near you, 4GW being an acronym for fourth generation warfare. In particular, what caught my eye was a statement Richards makes about disconnection from (or marginalization by) the nominal [...]
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I’ve found it!), but ‘That’s funny…’ — Isaac Asimov. This piece got its immediate stimulus when I read a recent Opposed Systems Design (OSD) post on “Watts, intuition, ‘ahas’ and go”. What caught my eye and mind was [...]
This is one of those bits and pieces posts. Being almost two months out from being sacked in the LLNL layoffs has added both to my learning curve and to my lists of tasks done. Last Sunday marked the fourth of four weekly required newspaper publications of my filed fictitious business name “Ramblemuse Associates”. What [...]
In current times, forwarding a science career is a much about business as it is about knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs). This statement is not about the business of the institution or company you work for at any given time, but about treating your career as an individual, entrepreneurial business. You need both a business [...]
I’ve now brought my more general bibliography to at least a temporary stable point. In essence, that means that I’ve included enough content to hopefully make it useful, without so much that it becomes cumbersome. I’ll let go of it for awhile and move my focus on to other endeavors. Along the way of working [...]
Chet Richards, a protégé of the late military strategist John Boyd, recently wrote the book Certain to Win applying Boyd’s concepts to business competition. It’s a book well worth the reading. In a blog post titled “Can Boyd be implemented?“, Richards makes some profound comments on environment; comments that any institution dedicated to accomplishment, and [...]
In a column in the June 7th edition of the newly revamped Science News, Harvard University Provost Steven Hyman points out the disparities in attitudes between trends in research funding in the U.S. versus those in Singapore and China. A major difference between the United States and Singapore and China is the rapid growth rates [...]
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