Hello Jed, I agree with all you have said in this thread. Just think your solution is too simple when it comes to old bold pilots. We need the daredevil pilots also. In my opinion that does not make AR a bad guy. I'd rather call him a risk-taker. If the Wright brothers and others later had not been risk takers, we would not have any airplanes.No doubt that everything would be much easier if we all followed the rules. Our progress would be hampered - severely. In my opinion all decision making must be done in a timely manor with as good information as is available. Timing is often more essential than doing exactly right. I do understand that if we all followed the rules everything would be as predicted and of course nobody would die in traffic accidents but nobody would deny the fact that airplanes heavier than air cannot fly and LENR is both forbidden, unthinkable and ridiculed for ever. Just right and not too much has its own word in Swedish - lagom. A Swedish say says' "lagom is best". It is hard to define and hard to detect. Perfect is way too much. Sloppy is another way of saying overconfident. If AR has a solution then he is sloppy and lucky and we need that too.:) I am not defending AR's stubbornness to not use proper instrumentation as that is so basic that even I can see the need to account for the curve form. Easy enough that I remember that from my lab-work in school long time ago.
Best Regards , Lennart Thornros www.StrategicLeadershipSac.com [email protected] +1 916 436 1899 6140 Horseshoe Bar Road Suite G, Loomis CA 95650 “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” PJM On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: > > >> It seems to me it is far more likely he is what he appears to be: a >> brilliant but headstrong inventor who often does sloppy work. He often cuts >> corners because he assumes he is right. He has no regard for conventional >> scientific standards. >> > > My office is out here at the PDK airport. I sometimes chat with pilots. > They describe a certain breed of pilot. Someone who is skilled at piloting, > intuitive, and learned to fly as easily as a bird, yet who is sloppy and > arrogant. These pilots do not follow the rules. They have overweening > confidence that they can get out of any bad situation with their skill. > They take unnecessary risks. Sooner or later they get in trouble. Pilots > say of them: > > There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots. > > You see people like this in other walks of life, especially people in > dangerous occupations, such as farmers, or fishermen who go to sea drunk in > bad weather. Even among programmers there are people who live dangerously, > write pages of effective but sloppy code, without comments. See: > > http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html > > - Jed >
