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 […]
Last post I mentioned starting work on a bibliography more general than my bibliography for massage practitioners. I’ve now got a gateway page and a limited number of content entries for the general bibliography up and running. The listings in so far are mostly on freelancing and writing but that will expand with a little […]
One of the books I’d gotten when I’d started thinking seriously of freelance writing a couple of years ago was Media Bistro’s first book — “Get a Freelance Life” by Margit Feury Ragland. I didn’t note it when I mentioned Media Bistro a few days ago, but the website includes sections for jobs and profiles, […]
My prior comment on the infungibility of scientists reminding me about the work of economist W. Brian Arthur that I’d read about in Mitchell Waldrop’s book “Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos”. Arthur is noted for his work on increasing returns in economies, and how these increasing returns magnify small, […]
The comments in my last entry on tightening funding and schedules, reminded me of several conversations I’ve had with colleagues regarding the need for creative slack to remain productive. Tom DeMarco explored this in his book, “Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency” I also came across a fairly long and […]
My recent ejection out of the mainstream of LLNL projects has underscored the limits of personal professionalism. Last fall, with the management transition from the University of California (UC) to the new LLC, I had accepted the job with the new management, retired from UC two days after the transition, and then cut back to […]
A week after becoming “roadkill” in LLNL’s involuntary separation process, life goes on. During the past week, I’ve filed a fictitious business name under which to do technical consulting, and rounded up the required two sponsors and sent in my membership application to the National Association of Science Writers (NASW). The latter is a delayed […]
Back in April, while still at LLNL, I was working on a proposed project to improve methods and observations for fossil fuel emissions verification (FFEV). AB32, California’s landmark climate change legislation, requires fossil fuel emissions verification, as well as including mandatory source reporting. Part of FFEV is modeling where emissions are transported by winds. This […]
The Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF) is launching a new peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal — the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork: Research, Education, & Practice. The first edition is scheduled for August. As co-chair of the MTF’s Best Practices Committee, I submitted a 33 page paper to the editor today covering the committee’s work […]
My last post quoted from Siegfried Hecker’s testimony on 30 April 2008 before the Water and Energy subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Hecker’s statement on risk aversion reminded me of a Science editorial by Harold T. Shapiro, “The Willingness to Risk Failure”. Shapiro opened the editorial, drawn from a prior commencement address, with: Let […]
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