Archive for November, 2007

Experience Matters

Friday, November 16th, 2007

The best degree from the greatest institution in the world means very little in the face of experience. Just because someone can conduct a train, doesn’t mean they can pilot a plane.

My dad is one of the smartest people I have ever met and he doesn’t have a degree of any kind. But he listens. (He is also a natural math genius, but that’s a different story.) Like many successful people, he learns by doing and he has done plenty. Two of the smartest programmers I have ever met do not have college degrees. Yet somehow, the basics escape so many who have the advanced Pedigree.

If you don’t succeed the first time, try and try again. But for heaven’s sake TRY A DIFFERENT APPROACH!

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Colony Collapse Disorder – CCD

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

If you haven’t heard about CCD by now, bless your heart.

Bee colony populations around the world are suffering and the reasons appear to be multi-faceted. Einstein said that the human population would last but a few years if bees became extinct. And it looks like CCD is the AIDS virus of bees.

PBS just put out a documentary that I highly recommend. Here is an excerpt:

In the winter of 2006/2007, more than a quarter of the country’s 2.4 million bee colonies — accounting for tens of billions of bees — were lost to CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder. This loss is projected have an $8 billion to $12 billion effect on America’s agricultural economy, but the consequences of CCD could be far more disastrous.

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A Quiet Lesson

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

I love my book of quotes.

Thomas Fuller is credited with saying, “If you have many Irons in the Fire, some will burn.”
Thomas Jefferson once said, “Opinion is power.”
Herbert Spencer sums it up best, “Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.”

Maybe it’s a sign of the times. We make great achievements based on scientific research and careful analysis. Yet the opinions of a few, with their heartfelt, impatient, fact-less judgments, always seem to dismantle the strongest foundations and circumvent the obvious. These people inspire the creators of Dilbert, Office Space, The Office, Seinfeld, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report as well as the chambers of gossip.

At the end of the day, any garden needs sunlight and water to grow.

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