This post was spurred by a recent discussion of the massage therapy Entry-Level Analysis Project (ELAP). The project itself concerns expanding a job task analysis into a set of competencies. However, the description of project motivations contains the statement that inconsistencies in massage education have resulted in “too many massage school graduates who experience short, […]
One of the economic shortcomings that’s more or less obvious in “just letting the market handle it” is that the market often doesn’t include total costs of use. The situation is akin to letting someone buy supplies for a large party, holding the party on common land, and then simply walking off, leaving the trash […]
California does not require state licensing to practice massage therapy, but instead offers, via the California Massage Therapy Council (CAMTC), a state-law authorized, voluntary certification that exempts the holders from local licensing laws. In return, certificants undergo education verification and extensive background checks. Because of this voluntary regulatory structure, there’s no centralized means of reliably […]
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 […]
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