Research Dynamics: Decline of Scientific Research in America

Thanks to Raju, came across this link.  Interesting stuff….

Kuzma’s Diary/Ме-мяу-ары…

Mom’s Birthday Present – Kuzma’s diary.

Learning Ruby

Learning Ruby, using this tutorial (thanks Pascal).  Recently learned about SASS (Seriuosly Awesome StyleSheets).

WorkWithMe.Org has Soft Launched

OK.  So…  I did a soft launch yesterday for www.WorkWithMe.org, it immediately turned out to not work on Firefix, fixed the kinks, and it’s gradually starting to come together.  Thanks a bunch for the feedback – really appreciate it.  Please keep it coming.

Some new thinks I learned: OLark is pretty good for site feedback.  People had no idea what it is, so they checked it out and then left.  Now the goal is to figure out what would get people to post things…  at least before I do a an actual launch and start telling people about it…

Fight Dynamics: Cause and Effect

This is a followup to my recent post on strength.  Some people I know believe that you never threaten to hit. If you threaten, you must hit…  perhaps even in reverse order. And I always had a problem with that philosophy. It seems to me now that the goal exercising strength should be to actually avoid a confrontation later on.

People…

I think today I realized: people are not malicious – they are just stupid. Myself included.

Life Lesson: on Strength and Respect

Several years ago, I came to the conclusion that people respect strength. I was wrong.

I recently discovered that strength can also be applied in a way that is perceived extremely unethical despite the best intention, which evokes anger and an almost overwhelming sense of righteousness that would make a religious zealot blush: a completely ridiculous situation.

So it looks like brute strength is not respected, but despised and tolerated when it must be.  People respect strength delivered with calmness and wisdom.  So the new philosophy is: choose a course, be as clear about your intentions as you can, and don’t compromise ethics no matter how much you may wish to do so – the most stable path forward, one requiring least amount of energy. Besides, life is too short to be an asshole.

Recent SW Project: WhatChangedMyLife.com

This weekend I implemented WhatChangedMyLife during the Boston Startup Weekend. As usual, not much sleep, but very educational.  This is what I learned:

WhatChangedMyLife.com–Need a Design…

OK, today attended boston.startupweekend.org.  Liked this mix of people better than the last several weekends – more interesting ideas.  Myself, am going to continue with www.WhatChangedMyLife.com…  need a designer…  Anybody want to help out?

Updated FairSetup

Updated the FairSetup site a bit.  Time to do some biz-dev. Does anyone know any companies who may be interested in improving their compensation structure?