Much of the impetus for the collapse of the top newsroom managers was credited to the Internet on which many of the Times employees posted the complaints that had been ignored. Staff members who used the open architecture of the new medium to become “the outside voice” provided a check on internal behavior. Along with […]
In March, the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB) proposed a significant change to state requirements for continuing education (CE). They have termed this proposal MOCC, for Maintenance Of Core Competence.The FSMTB is accepting feedback on the proposal through 30 April. Looking at reactions to the MOCC proposal, the Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals […]
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 […]
Remembering on both sides, that civility is not a sign of weakness and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us, instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. Let both sides, for the first […]
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 […]
Back toward the end of last year, I’d posted a short piece about the book Three Cups of Tea, profiling Greg Mortenson’s work building schools in remote parts of Pakistan. NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof just wrote a column about Mortenson — It Takes a School, Not Missles. Kristof also extends the discussion and a […]
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 […]
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 […]
At just over two weeks since my lay-off from LLNL, the lab is already starting to seem a memory seen through the aerosol-induced haze of distance. By focusing and working intensely on other endeavors, such as networking () and the general bibliography, I’ve deliberately accelerated my own psychological perception of the passing of time. Simply […]
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