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We aren't really bad at estimating. What we are really bad at is enumerating all the assumptions that lie behind our estimates. ― Paul Rook, from his keynote on risk management, European Conference on Software Methods, London, October 1994. If... Read more →

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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of plain... Read more →

Quote of the Day - Compromise

When working with other people and dynamic situations and relationships and deals, a person, especially a leader, must compromise. Finding the common ground between teams. Merging different approaches to the same problem. Bridging personalities with people who might not get... Read more →

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Folly Loves the Sound of His Own Voice When we hear unsubstantiated claims, without evidence or principle and point those out and then receive condemnation, it's an age response to this quote Only principled based foundations can be the foundation... Read more →

Pandemic

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath – the most sacred of times? Cease from travel Cease from buying and selling Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it... Read more →

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time ―Maya Angelou Read more →

George Washington's Rules of Civility

Abstracted from George Washington's Rules of Civility, Moncure D. Conway, Traced from their sources and restored, 1890. Among the manuscript books of George Washington, preserved in the State Archives at Washington City, the earliest bears the date, written in it... Read more →

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Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the... Read more →

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I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen amongst us. —Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, January 27, 1838 Read more →

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I came across an astrology explanation on why Kamala Harris won the VP position and several other predictions in our crazy world of 2020. Here's a thought on astrology Two things are infinite: the university and human stupidity. And I'm... Read more →

Veterans Day

To all Veterans I know and work with, thank you for your service Read more →

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Hell is truth seen too late. ― Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan, 1651 Read more →

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Stand for something or fall for anything - Malcolm X Read more →

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Evoking Root Cause as the Reason for Failure is a Failure of Leadership Finding the Root Cause means knowing why the risk exists. Only then can the Corrective and Preventive actions be determined. Read more →

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You can't run a credible business or your own household without knowing your basis of cost and the cost demand in the future. In the presence of reducible and irreducible uncertainties, that cost basis and the value produced or acquired... Read more →

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Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which... Read more →

Theory versus Experiment

I was trained as an experimental physicist, where I learned to write software for a real-time computer converting analog information into digital information and doing the signal processing, looking for clues in the underlying processes in the lab. An example... Read more →