tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29766788235918271012024-03-25T16:55:09.239-04:00InnovationTrekWe got here. What's next?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-49931234542769330352024-03-25T16:54:00.001-04:002024-03-25T16:54:33.735-04:00The peril of humanity will come from our mutual inability to nurture 🧠 talent<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih-T7bq9LzxvF_uA0l2aTys5F2t4RZt_YONTBn34YSWa5hQUXncee7y87ZNfB5WHxbl5i4BDpX_gAMl8izB11-5Ux3_pTkEy5l4aeaBUUg47Izy3sCzK-kSwUDeRd5pZjbw6UE4nuj29aCx312MuYxkJYPtu-StJFzBnSQmuQraA3_iyKKR4SXsjsVQ4Y"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih-T7bq9LzxvF_uA0l2aTys5F2t4RZt_YONTBn34YSWa5hQUXncee7y87ZNfB5WHxbl5i4BDpX_gAMl8izB11-5Ux3_pTkEy5l4aeaBUUg47Izy3sCzK-kSwUDeRd5pZjbw6UE4nuj29aCx312MuYxkJYPtu-StJFzBnSQmuQraA3_iyKKR4SXsjsVQ4Y=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7350407351024835202" /></a><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">You have been warned. <br></span><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian kf0ohs S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-68030323333325896392024-03-01T09:27:00.001-05:002024-03-01T09:27:19.388-05:00Success is always flow. <div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>I decided not to run for US Congress in my Nebraska District 2. </div><div><br></div><div>The unit of analysis is the person times decisions they (helped to) make. Let that be clear!</div><div><br></div><div>I know personally and do not anymore trust the future performance as my representative in Congress of either of the two main candidates, highlighted in the first comment below from their last confrontation. Yet, I don't have the energy and desire to waste my time trying to raise $1.5 million to "beat" either and both of them. It's a strong feeling of mine that the heat/inspiration pump we established and are growing with The Science Club at Yates Illuminates will have a much stronger impact than my serving in Congress, despite my personal conviction that we shall make the US much more like Omaha altogether—to get along well among neighbors and to build things together, bubbling from the ground up. That's after all how we founded this country in its past and how we are continuing to be showcasing ground up solutions to the world.</div><div><br></div><div>It's just not going to be my time wasted in Washington's gridlock. Now: for those of us who take the time to learn…</div><div><br></div><div>You made the effort to register and come to school. You're paying dearly and you'll be paying even much more dearly over time ahead.</div><div><br></div><div>At 19 you dress like at 19. "No suit and tie for [you]. A suit and tie is for old people and I'm certainly not old."</div><div><br></div><div>"Texas sucks." was a stereotype I must have heard thousands of times by twenty+ years ago. I had a student from Dallas in a large first year of university class in South East Michigan about this time twenty years ago. I let her speak often as she was opinionated and was always ready to answer many of my provocative questions asked of everyone. Then I had to help defend her because others had differing views and they were all of a sudden more interested in speaking themselves once the Dallas born student had started the conversation. I had previously argued in Texas's favor with a history professor (today) friend of mine who disliked the U.S. more than it deserved to be disliked based on my learning early in my high school days about the role Texas Instruments had played in the development of our information society revolution.</div><div><br></div><div>But then I learned much more myself. I wish the same upon everyone on this earth, but particularly so to all my neighbors in this election season.</div><div><br></div><div>Think about it. You ate chicken today? It was inspected because of a law that was helped to be passed by President Lyndon B Johnson. Maybe LBJ and implicit state laws saved your life.</div><div><br></div><div>Never ever settle for what you're told, especially by those who have an interest to fool you to adopt their stereotypes and nonsense. Do your due diligence work and settle for preferences rooted in solutions offered feasibly by folks with a real track record of success in doing things.</div><div><br></div><div>Science is in everything we do and take advantage of every day. Never let anyone tell you or have you believe otherwise.</div><div><br></div><div>Success is always flow. There's more of us.</div><div><br></div><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-64235981654284227142024-02-21T17:38:00.001-05:002024-02-21T17:38:54.604-05:00How to help young learners grow? <div>How to help young learners grow? </div><div><br></div><div>👉First of all: be ready much before the newborns are born. Then continue to always stay _readier_ as they grow and learn more. If you're not ready for science how do you think you'll be able to help them?</div><div>👉Second: Show them how to ask and answer tough questions about everything from earliest on in life.</div><div>👉Third: Help with learning where inspiration must always come from and how. Remember that no matter what we've done as a species, nature did it first. Nature still does—& will always do—it much better & we will forever have to learn from it. </div><div>👉Fourth: Help them recognize their strengths _and_ limitations, and why we as a species can only do great things in teams, even if those are most often asynchronous.</div><div>👉Fifth: Understand well what is a school system and what does it, can it, and should it do. Brief: any school system is designed for _scale_. Any individual is unique. Don't ever allow the need to societally learn at scale to kill or even just mildly reduce each one learner's (your each and every kid's) individuality. Then set to prepare your children for it. From day one. Every day. For life. And no: your fancy gaming/video tablet or smartphone is not your co-parent or babysitter. It's just a brain killer if not used correctly. Schooling shall _complement_ and amplify learning from home and from life experiences themselves. Never just replace those. </div><div>👉Sixth: Help everyone travel. As far and as wide as you can imagine. Also as deep and as narrow as you can imagine. And beyond. With the mind, and certainly with the body too, but not just with the body. Learn from there. You and your young learners will never be the same. </div><div>👉Seventh: Always live tomorrow, never yesterday. Yesteryear & yestercentury are good for learning from them, but to relive them would really be the dumbest. Never trust anyone taking you back to some past. Realize how much they're misleading you and just call their bluff.</div><div>👉Eight: Understand the system you and your family live in. Understand it well. This is fundamental. Even language can not help you fully unless you're ready to question it—language itself—as well. Remember all the blind people👨🦯👩🦯🧑🦯explaining an elephant 🐘. Before you ever looked from above 🌗 how would you describe the world 🌍? Before you can describe it well how can you explain things it's impacted by? Then when some people try to mess with your understanding 🧠for their own benefit, how can you react if you didn't dedicate enough time and effort to figure out how they may want to trick you? Imagine then that you're there for your children all while you yourself may be tricked away from being able to represent their entire interests well enough… Take a simple issue: 🧓🛻👧🏫🅿️🅿️🅿️🅿️🚫🌳. What do we do about it? Only what we know we may… But what if we never learned we may do anything at all? Because we were prohibited subliminally from getting the entirety of the system?</div><div><br></div><div>👉Many will rob you with a pen.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8DKralucJr0zN4r6DjHfoE7AcS06K0sMSUe2yN2ezYJdELAiJ01C4lqu562l3Qy_cTPE0oiBI1-jlGSk3JNCxvbfQM9XjqhaDgwdL8Sf5LXvMFGXVzAz0-0vMd2mJvhfk4zKHnZOxDnqgydi3VbxLJGP2aoMCAAkME6jU30Nmmq9BcTqCjhXyahGwGUk"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8DKralucJr0zN4r6DjHfoE7AcS06K0sMSUe2yN2ezYJdELAiJ01C4lqu562l3Qy_cTPE0oiBI1-jlGSk3JNCxvbfQM9XjqhaDgwdL8Sf5LXvMFGXVzAz0-0vMd2mJvhfk4zKHnZOxDnqgydi3VbxLJGP2aoMCAAkME6jU30Nmmq9BcTqCjhXyahGwGUk=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7338188427474200738" /></a><br></div><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian kf0ohs S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-40936448956401629072023-11-28T18:11:00.000-05:002023-11-28T18:12:34.174-05:00You gotta add sellers—flows always grow to reach all elements of the system <img alt="image0.jpeg" src="blob:applewebdata://fc60af4a-c136-422f-a0a8-57fb9ead411b/68a6d219-7e88-48f6-8ae9-34ad8d0013b9" data-unique-identifier=""><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Core defining variables are. must!<br></span><img alt="image1.jpeg" src="blob:applewebdata://fc60af4a-c136-422f-a0a8-57fb9ead411b/de920a76-5cbe-4757-896a-b1c1432ed424" data-unique-identifier=""><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Above is a modest analysis of transportation (r-)evolution. It is</div><div dir="ltr">offered as an example on how we must address financial analysis of future growth of parts of the economic system pertaining to global mobility of goods and persons, from a constructal law perspective, as to be applied. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-52595844574935750442023-08-18T09:24:00.000-04:002023-08-18T09:25:03.412-04:00We matters. A lot. Yet, to whom and in what way exactly?<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-NbmrMYHRc7Zq7KOwfG6bKqqgfATnB8j">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-NbmrMYHRc7Zq7KOwfG6bKqqgfATnB8j</a><br><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-72032509514292454862023-06-21T08:25:00.001-04:002023-06-21T08:25:46.459-04:00Let’s not confuse innovation with potentially criminally irresponsible conduct. <div dir="ltr">https://news.yahoo.com/oceangate-warned-potential-catastrophic-problems-114044476.html?soc_src=newsroom&soc_trk=com.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail&.tsrc=newsroom</div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-51617380664346227992023-05-24T10:56:00.001-04:002023-05-24T10:56:42.296-04:00CAS$H Motivates for Innovation. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMilcNATEfaUZHezyOTq6Tz7PHuVaRGHl0k17HUJ_N-J514XBunZIU2SRehl_qwCieFwhEDPsuIJ19d_cpKW3HlwkH4WGlqPOj0366Frzy-SAXSxIAxK5_CbTNqmvJouODCSXdQeW-T8D2C9ORTzflh71nYtlEHf8lFFMGq8-aik0TpGsmRBVt8y9X"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMilcNATEfaUZHezyOTq6Tz7PHuVaRGHl0k17HUJ_N-J514XBunZIU2SRehl_qwCieFwhEDPsuIJ19d_cpKW3HlwkH4WGlqPOj0366Frzy-SAXSxIAxK5_CbTNqmvJouODCSXdQeW-T8D2C9ORTzflh71nYtlEHf8lFFMGq8-aik0TpGsmRBVt8y9X=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7236763067077780834" /></a><br><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-48846620333010502142022-11-24T20:44:00.001-05:002022-11-24T20:44:51.401-05:00Brands and their value over time. <div dir="ltr">Let's remember homo sapiens believes in stories. Strongly so. Maybe much too strongly so. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7000500231494602752?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios</div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-81871121275801869282022-09-28T07:33:00.000-04:002022-09-28T07:34:22.889-04:00SEAT robots pictures. <p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaP7ygbRDI_X6iEi5TQf1-OTahlyPn9jSXefoIktnJVqgLMPraiFwLTgXilyIew7qYDnCAve-L_dnxjUdFXLi6KPOZ7rTspt6S6VT5hq2aTPFKD2uY3AO2Z_9t8rKQnrXnjue6d4_h1t31UWZGw2b2svsFK4f8t3tbJkL9qPjXU99WduJh1uvFpTJL"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaP7ygbRDI_X6iEi5TQf1-OTahlyPn9jSXefoIktnJVqgLMPraiFwLTgXilyIew7qYDnCAve-L_dnxjUdFXLi6KPOZ7rTspt6S6VT5hq2aTPFKD2uY3AO2Z_9t8rKQnrXnjue6d4_h1t31UWZGw2b2svsFK4f8t3tbJkL9qPjXU99WduJh1uvFpTJL=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7148392655390750482" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8sWeySAv3KwUkRnq_OEAT6Bp8VfN3gqLj4uXevIq2gjUF5HRLYDaXWE-amwClrrQt--W5v7tadb9GGZC6z7swwS9Dk4R22DjFYXMRoTEy1sZiwBAiVdC-Ha7hMC7KRPGGHDuEuv_PaEGjx-BDtyZg0Z2gMVEyRjsOlX6nxLjs_IzAYEGGACae_IEs"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8sWeySAv3KwUkRnq_OEAT6Bp8VfN3gqLj4uXevIq2gjUF5HRLYDaXWE-amwClrrQt--W5v7tadb9GGZC6z7swwS9Dk4R22DjFYXMRoTEy1sZiwBAiVdC-Ha7hMC7KRPGGHDuEuv_PaEGjx-BDtyZg0Z2gMVEyRjsOlX6nxLjs_IzAYEGGACae_IEs=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7148392663196903026" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgXzSCZak5L_XCLEQRNXIFMd16CPqgSoMFxQgQH7GSF0ZlFD9nw-6L5vuilw-RCA-kD3g6mSQ5igHdfzKCfBo9-8V5R1rnM90fqyGmAMLiw-6ac_MrJsyvgSqX1l3NYFimK90etz5SFb4tl3reM409PWEoTFRl0ElAn0T0SLVpD3cK9EXKQbgbJ5KB"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgXzSCZak5L_XCLEQRNXIFMd16CPqgSoMFxQgQH7GSF0ZlFD9nw-6L5vuilw-RCA-kD3g6mSQ5igHdfzKCfBo9-8V5R1rnM90fqyGmAMLiw-6ac_MrJsyvgSqX1l3NYFimK90etz5SFb4tl3reM409PWEoTFRl0ElAn0T0SLVpD3cK9EXKQbgbJ5KB=s320" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7148392666139807426" /></a></p><a href="https://www.icloud.com/attachment/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcvws.icloud-content.com%2FB%2FAaprel-J-kxD3ExTj54xtfTYbrxWAaHImiFRbCla407Az0QYC6VxZu2n%2F%24%7Bf%7D%3Fo%3DAm3D8mEGMid9G6LortOVcfX3j2mc0GHFN694cskpq05E%26v%3D1%26x%3D3%26a%3DCAogvR5LSsiBffT1xhb9vB99HLZ6eqLLbxeG47B4wsKHT44SdhD5j_-euDAY-Z_68sEwIgEAKgkC6AMA_zY1_l5SBNhuvFZaBHFm7adqJbtxQ2V5GwEdsgOBg_bGtfniROFDCZVNOotH3TtLwUMVRgVBZ8FyJfe_HwgL4LyUgegjJiqM5dpJvqtrqmU_8hUjSs1SRKvUBoOTwtg%26e%3D1666956824%26fl%3D%26r%3D20C10197-D1C4-4083-A16A-B8090B1E21CE-1%26k%3D%24%7Buk%7D%26ckc%3Dcom.apple.largeattachment%26ckz%3D270FB71D-B123-48C6-ABC4-EDB57259DBE4%26p%3D50%26s%3D0DPh7gPfvKQ-fBOs82PoklqMouc&uk=RXxUA2424UmqVofu1md2VA&f=Images.zip&sz=6593511" class="x-apple-maildropbanner" data-expiration="1666956824000.000000" data-url="https://cvws.icloud-content.com/B/Aaprel-J-kxD3ExTj54xtfTYbrxWAaHImiFRbCla407Az0QYC6VxZu2n/Images.zip?o=Am3D8mEGMid9G6LortOVcfX3j2mc0GHFN694cskpq05E&v=1&x=3&a=CAogvR5LSsiBffT1xhb9vB99HLZ6eqLLbxeG47B4wsKHT44SdhD5j_-euDAY-Z_68sEwIgEAKgkC6AMA_zY1_l5SBNhuvFZaBHFm7adqJbtxQ2V5GwEdsgOBg_bGtfniROFDCZVNOotH3TtLwUMVRgVBZ8FyJfe_HwgL4LyUgegjJiqM5dpJvqtrqmU_8hUjSs1SRKvUBoOTwtg&e=1666956824&fl=&r=20C10197-D1C4-4083-A16A-B8090B1E21CE-1&k=RXxUA2424UmqVofu1md2VA&ckc=com.apple.largeattachment&ckz=270FB71D-B123-48C6-ABC4-EDB57259DBE4&p=50&s=0DPh7gPfvKQ-fBOs82PoklqMouc" data-size="6593511"><div style="font: 13px 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; color: rgb(128,128,128); font-weight: 300"><div style="height:0px; border-top:1px solid #ececec;"></div><div style="overflow: auto;"><div style="float:left; margin-right: 62px;"><div style="height:25px; display:table-cell; vertical-align:bottom">Download full resolution images</div><div></div><div style="height:19px; display:table-cell; vertical-align:bottom">Available until Oct 28, 2022</div></div><div style="float: right; width: 62px; margin-left:-62px"><div class="maildrop_icon"></div></div></div><div style="height:0px; border-top:1px solid #ececec; margin-bottom: 15px"></div></div></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-48465141551016674472022-04-20T05:04:00.001-04:002022-04-20T05:04:54.323-04:00Knowledge is a basket of blueberries Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-82640622546283621932022-02-05T22:06:00.001-05:002022-02-05T22:06:55.844-05:00#Count [11]<div dir="ltr"> #Count _correct_ units of analysis. Don't get bogged by incorrect ones.<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Take an EV company. Is current US market share in EVs sold by each company the correct unit of analysis? It's obviously a time & space particularized slice. Will this enable you to learn & predict what may happen in ten years? In twenty? Globally, not just in the US?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Capacity? History? Bold vision and a strong past demonstrated track record to implement it, in prior similar instances? Easy, once we see it. How does choosing the incorrect unit of analysis impact predictive power and accuracy?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Take further any wannabe elected official. When running in their first election we can look at campaign statements. That may not be as reliable a measure as one would ever wish for.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It may get slightly better when they run for re-election: we can look at their voting record. Is _that_ sufficient now, though? </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Is it the same as when we choose the elected official to be the US President? For example, President Lyndon Baynes Johnson. In his own words—in an interview after his Presidency—prior to being President he had not enough power to do what he had to do. Albeit he actually had and used quite some power. How then would we determine anything at the time of his election for VP alongside President John F Kennedy, before the latter's tragic death that led to the former becoming President? Could it be bold initiatives accomplished? Or, maybe bold initiatives _attempted_?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Given more power, would it not help to know how many initiatives attempted there were earlier, as a likely better predictor of what will the power be used for once it'll be there?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">This way one will then better train a model of decision making for use later on deductive predictions for daily decisions that may be made by or impact us all. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Wouldn't you want to predict better from past behaviors of your date how will s/he react once s/he'll turn a spouse when deciding about purchasing a vehicle or home or about having children or who will raise them and how and where will they go to school and what they'll get a chance at becoming in their lives? All decisions likely possibly made better and which in turn in their massive aggregate may lead to humankind achievements of much larger scale. Or failure of much larger "grandeur." And certainly to both, only hopefully at different times and more of the former and less of the latter. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Is it feasible that one can imagine a world whereby decisions are always intuitively taken better because we learned to understand better how we make decisions and what motivates most of us to make them most often? Even without fully understanding all the mathematics behind it. The way we drive an automobile, better or not so well, without knowing much about the thermodynamics of an internal combustion engine. We could improve by measuring better. (Let's remember, Campbell's Law may simply work both ways. Once you know you can and must proactively compensate for its work.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In memory of Donald T Campbell and Paul Y Hammond.🙏</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Follow in the footsteps of the great.</div><div dir="ltr">Look inside.</div><div dir="ltr">Repeat.</div><div dir="ltr">[11]</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://youtu.be/xlm_cQwc-9M">https://youtu.be/xlm_cQwc-9M</a></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-15232799146443036212022-02-04T13:34:00.001-05:002022-02-04T13:34:22.728-05:00#Count [10]<div>#Count _all_ the (wannabe) Emperors with "new clothes." It may not be that self evident.</div><div><br></div><div>I am thorn: how much should we show how it's done? how much should we let you analyze thoroughly yourself?</div><div><br></div><div>Take a CEO of a large EV car company. Measure the influence he has, from his own companies' stock to other unrelated topics, always of importance. He's done some good, and even some great, work. Yet, the outlandish statements and the attempts to lend credibility to himself from fame and richness on issues of no expertise whatsoever are easily tricking a lot of unsuspecting people. </div><div><br></div><div>Take further any other similar attempts. Those most of us barely ever actually see through. Whether a politician says to a few doctors in a televised live show from the White House "if you could try to put the light or disinfectant inside the body" or whether a podcaster pretends to be merely asking questions of "experts," the techniques are all at least as old as when the Mayor (whose name we don't remember) had Socrates poisoned "democratically" for helping youth learn how to think. </div><div><br></div><div>The task may seem daunting, at first, but with training and perseverance you may get better and better at it. </div><div><br></div><div>One great explains it with these simple words:</div><div><br></div><div> "everyone has a _hidden_ agenda." </div><div><br></div><div>Yes. Everyone. All the time. There are no exceptions. </div><div><br></div><div>Dedicated to the memory of Donald T Campbell and Paul H Hammond.🙏</div><div><br></div><div>Follow in the footsteps of the great. </div><div>Look inside. </div><div>Repeat. </div><div>[10]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/Y4y2e4rUxfo">https://youtu.be/Y4y2e4rUxfo</a></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-42986140381316274392022-01-28T08:11:00.000-05:002022-01-28T08:12:04.568-05:00#Count [9]<div>#Count all the false dichotomies. Move proactively through them, to solutions.</div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday I had the honor to hold the third and last section of a class on Our Earth in Space. using Science on a Sphere, and focusing this time on the major achievement of humankind that is James Webb Space Telescope, its perfect launch on Christmas last year, 53 years after Apollo 8, its reaching four days ago its final destination at Lagrange 2 point 1.5 million kilometers away from the dark side of Earth, on its amazing technology including a cryogenic machine ensuring temperatures of about just 6 Kelvin, and on its ongoing shields and instruments deployment schedule and on its plans to discovery of questions it asks and seeks answers to. 🌞🌏🚀🌗🛰🪐💫💧</div><div><br></div><div>Imagine my surprise to learn that learners in our group—adults interested in space exploration—, who in the beginning of the class correctly interpreted Sir Isaac Newton's 1687 originating gravitation law, have never heard of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, nor of the 232 years that passed from then until the 1919 Sir Edington experiments with a Solar Eclipse, proving Albert Einstein correct, dethroned Isaac Newton from being founding "king of Physics". To say nothing about Count de Broglie's work, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle or Schroedinger's cat. We ought to do better at designing and implementing education in our world. </div><div><br></div><div>There is no better feeling than to see the curious eyes of folks learning something new to them that they could've and should've known long time ago. Life is good. Make every day a good day!</div><div><br></div><div>Asks us questions on construcral law and particularly on its application to human systems.👇</div><div><br></div><div>In memory of Donald T. Campbell and Paul Y Hammond. 🙏</div><div><br></div><div>Follow in the footsteps of the great. </div><div>Look inside. </div><div>Repeat. </div><div>[9]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/jc8_8ccXuS0">https://youtu.be/jc8_8ccXuS0</a></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-85314306548806830862022-01-28T06:37:00.001-05:002022-01-28T06:37:13.692-05:00#Count [8]<div>#Count _everything_ you can be inspired by. This addresses directly how to define _great_.</div><div><br></div><div>One of the hardest, yet most important, lessons ever learned.</div><div><br></div><div>"Eu nu ți-aș dori vreodată să ajungi să ne cunoști."</div><div><br></div><div>[A more complete quote:</div><div><br></div><div>"- … Şi, purtat de biruinţă, să mă-mpiedec de-un moşneag? </div><div>- De-un moşneag, da, împărate, căci moşneagul ce priveşti</div><div>Nu e om de rând, el este domnul Ţării Româneşti. </div><div>Eu nu ţi-aş dori vrodată să ajungi să ne cunoşti, </div><div>Nici ca Dunărea să-nece spumegând a tale oşti. </div><div>După vremuri mulţi veniră, începând cu acel oaspe, </div><div>Ce din vechi se pomeneşte, cu Dariu a lui Istaspe;</div><div>Mulţi durară, după vremuri, peste Dunăre vrun pod, </div><div>De-au trecut cu spaima lumii şi mulţime de norod;</div><div>Împăraţi pe care lumea nu putea să-i mai încapă</div><div>Au venit şi-n ţara noastră de-au cerut pământ şi apă -</div><div>Şi nu voi ca să mă laud, nici că voi să te-nspăimânt, </div><div>Cum veniră, se fă*ă toţi o apă ş-un pământ. </div><div>Te făleşti că înainte-ţi răsturnat-ai valvârtej</div><div>Oştile leite-n zale de-mpăraţi şi de viteji? </div><div>Tu te lauzi că Apusul înainte ţi s-a pus?... </div><div>Ce-i mâna pe ei în luptă, ce-au voit acel Apus? </div><div>Laurii voiau să-i smulgă de pe funtea ta de fier, </div><div>A credinţei biruinţă căta orice cavaler. </div><div>Eu? Îmi apăr sărăcia şi nevoile şi neamul... </div><div>Şi de-aceea _tot ce mişcă-n ţara asta, râul, ramul_, </div><div>Mi-e prieten numai mie, iară ţie duşman este, </div><div>Duşmănit vei fi de toate, făr-a prinde chiar de veste;</div><div>N-avem oşti, dară iubirea de moşie e un zid</div><div>Care nu se-nfiorează de-a ta faimă, Baiazid!"—Mihai Eminescu, Scrisoarea a treia.]</div><div><br></div><div>This here and now is betting on our unfair advantage in the world. As Free Dacians. (Born and taught in Romanian—at least partially, if lucky enough in this world—, and hence able to read or hear and comprehend in the Romanian language.) </div><div><br></div><div>It is quite a select club, us knowers of the Romanian language. As I suggested earlier, I _had to_ get to Texas. When I got there, a fine gentleman told me he self taught himself (sufficient) Romanian to be able to read Mihai Eminescu. The brilliant words spoken just for here and now in our #️⃣🧛♂️ series are included. In comments you'll find a link to the written translation into English—yet it's never the same thing. </div><div><br></div><div>The science of why this matters—constructal law—follows tomorrow (at [9]). </div><div><br></div><div>In memory of Donald T Campbell and Paul Y Hammond. 🙏</div><div><br></div><div>Follow in the footsteps of the great. </div><div>Look inside. </div><div>Repeat. </div><div>[8]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/69JnrqZvd0k">https://youtu.be/69JnrqZvd0k</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>Mihai Eminescu—Scrisoarea a treia. </div><div><br></div><div>Romanian language.</div><div>https://m.versuri.ro/versuri/mihai-eminescu-scrisoarea-iii-_h617.html</div><div><br></div><div>English translation.</div><div><br></div><div>Letter III - excerpt [Scrisoarea III - fragment]</div><div>"There! A peace envoy is coming with a kerchief on a stick Bayezid, watching him closely, a fierce quarrel wants to pick:</div><div>– What'd you want?</div><div>– We? Peace and quiet! And if you are not hostile</div><div>Our prince would like to chatter with Your Highness for a while.</div><div>At a sign, they let him enter and draws near, the tent to reach,</div><div>An old man dressed in plain garments, with a simple lovely speech.</div><div>– Are you Mircea?</div><div>– Yes, Your Highness!</div><div>– I demand you to kneel down,</div><div>Or I'll lay upon your forehead a disgraceful thorny crown.</div><div>– I don't really mind, Your Highness, why you've come and what you do, While we are at peace, however, I shall warmly welcome you. [...]"</div><div><br></div><div>Further, here (pp. 57-59):</div><div><br></div><div>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354311216_Mihai_Eminescu_-_50_Poems_Translated_into_English_by_Octavian_Cocos</div><div><br></div><div>We take the opportunity to introduce the reader to even more MIhai Eminescu, in English. Enjoy.</div></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-55128531474305923892022-01-27T08:28:00.001-05:002022-01-27T08:28:52.201-05:00#Count [7]<div>#Count impact of flows. </div><div><br></div><div>In preparation of the constructal law part. Let's watch the work of natural flows on the planet.</div><div><br></div><div>In memory of Donald T Campbell and Paul Y Hammond. 🙏</div><div><br></div><div>Follow in the footsteps of the great. </div><div>Look inside. </div><div>Repeat. </div><div>[7]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_count-activity-6892332480188231680-Vk4k">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_count-activity-6892332480188231680-Vk4k</a></div><div><br></div><div>(we include the link above so that the video presenting flows on the planet shows)</div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-36619017331718160542022-01-26T11:58:00.001-05:002022-01-26T11:58:10.704-05:00#Count [6]<div>#Count who's with you and your story. Count who's not. Help get the latter to join the former, in their interest, with the least energy consumed by you.</div><div><br></div><div>"Everything happens for a reason." </div><div><br></div><div>(It took me a long time to hear it. It was in South Texas, some 18 years ago, as I had just landed for the interview for my first full time tenure track professor and director position, the one that helped build the case for my later becoming a U.S. Citizen. Note yesterday's [5] question. This is in part a case study on how that counting should be done.)</div><div><br></div><div>Life is indeed a Ponzi scheme. The world is clearly one too. Yet: good news is there is not just one Ponzi scheme. But plenty!</div><div><br></div><div>Choose the Ponzi schemes you're a part of. Design and run _your own_ all positive all life and world changing Ponzi schemes. Make everyone participate in these great schemes & abandon the nasty ones they've been believing in (erroneously!) for far too long. </div><div><br></div><div>I _had to_ get to Texas. I had to learn Texas, to know it in some depth, to live it and to love it, to meet everyone I met and have been influenced by there, to make new amazing lifelong friends, to run into My Dear Bride, of course, but most of all, to _learn to proactively dismantle stereotypes_. </div><div><br></div><div>I had to get to Texas, in 2004, it turns out, because when I was a teenager my parents brought me (from Hungary, of all places) a University of Texas branded T-shirt. What a courageous crazy thing, in retrospect, to wear that in the late 1970s, early 1980s, România. Notice how _I believed that story_, in spite of everything surrounding me telling me I shouldn't have. Notice how stereotypical views of Texas hit me in both positive (University of Texas brand & lure, Texas Instruments) and negative (politics & more) ways over time. Notice how some stories have endurance in our minds, if subconsciously so. Notice how learning to dismantle stereotypes is about people. It is about interacting with, learning to know, & trusting people. Day in and day out. (More about this later in our own 6D model—always go slow, and you'll learn much more.)</div><div><br></div><div>At first I thought about it—the sentence above—in the context I was in the middle of back then. (Suffice it to say I had to learn that moving was going to matter a lot.) But there was so much more to the lesson. As you can see here and now. The great thing about good lessons is that once learned they stay with you.</div><div><br></div><div>"When you'll get it [the doctoral degree], you'll know that it's just the ticket to get you into the ballroom. What you'll do on the dance floor is what matters."</div><div><br></div><div>My lady mentor of 28 years & dissertation co-chair couldn't have framed it better.</div><div><br></div><div>Take _it_ to mean _your own learning_ of what matters. _To build an ability & to have a desire to make a difference._</div><div><br></div><div>Let's watch systems thinking. Ask _your own questions_. We can answer some together if you list them below.👇</div><div><br></div><div>In memory of Donald T Campbell and Paul Y Hammond.🙏</div><div><br></div><div>Follow in the footsteps of the great.</div><div>Look inside.</div><div>Repeat.</div><div>[6]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/EbLh7rZ3rhU">https://youtu.be/EbLh7rZ3rhU</a></div><div><br></div><div>I don't have proof of this but I believe strongly that this is the book Russell Ackoff speaks about in his first sentence in his talk above. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhee5jmmrl02joBoWux5CmxXSOJTkgfYjM12PPMm8Ihk6F3aRkWA5tJgJxM-qW7HQLAtzk4zSbdU6jem-SQYCWwq2TLVQHmBgLRDZLeIIK5uSb0bbiC-gqqmcYgzLJqCF6GoosCi_SiNyo/s1600/image0-790753.jpeg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhee5jmmrl02joBoWux5CmxXSOJTkgfYjM12PPMm8Ihk6F3aRkWA5tJgJxM-qW7HQLAtzk4zSbdU6jem-SQYCWwq2TLVQHmBgLRDZLeIIK5uSb0bbiC-gqqmcYgzLJqCF6GoosCi_SiNyo/s320/image0-790753.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7057560232274136866" /></a></div><div><br></div><div><div>Please note that there is someone relatively (wannabe) famous in these parts of the world who is (should never) formally connected with (and hence know about) Russell Ackoff more than he ever shows. </div><div><br></div><div>We know that from the misters person's much too immodest behavior and much too influential ill reasoning. Who do you think the person is? What can be done to curb said sad trend—that all too many listen to erroneously gathered false fame?</div></div><div><br></div><div>Please _also_ note that yesterday I told the story of how Russell Ackoff helped solve inner city Philadelphia "learning to read by attracting folks to watch Charlie Chaplin old no-sound movies" in the context of making that part of Yates, then Yates Nebraska, and then Yates USA. </div><div><br></div><div>I told it on the way to testifying to the Nebraska Legislature to someone who helped me watch The Goonies in my 50s. </div><div><br></div><div>We'll make this happen, from here in Gifford Park, to the entire country and the world. Let me know if you want to help. Thank you. </div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-25845372574465912552022-01-26T09:37:00.001-05:002022-01-26T09:37:31.166-05:00#Count [5]<div>#Count who contributed to, and all that had to align, for you to read this today, here and now. </div><div><br></div><div>Next, #️⃣🧛♂️count lives ahead which you will impact into the future. Make it all a good impact. Better yet, make it _the best_ impact.</div><div><br></div><div>Use the power of the exponential curve.📈</div><div><br></div><div>Once you tell a good story into the future to another, they buy it, & you don't mind the credit, there are now two of you telling that story to the world.</div><div><br></div><div>I imagine a world where _energy independence is of the individual_, and hybrid. Not national, monopolistic, of the fossil fuels quasi-monopolies or of the renewable energy industries quasi-monopolies. Rather, a _hybrid_ at global scale, focused on the/each individual human being, whereby we can all (yes, that's 7.9 billion all) get and use a fair share of the sun's energy.</div><div><br></div><div>Who can argue that in the broad scheme of things the world was intended for a bird—accessing enough energy as to keep it alive and travel across the world if so its species is meant to do—is supposed to be better off than a thinking human? That a thinking human must be relegated to lesser than the panda bear—whose life is always dedicated mostly just to eating, as its food energy density is very low—in terms of that human's ability to be just like any other human, and access enough energy to survive a _human_ life? (Many folks will argue it, but they'd be logically afailing.)</div><div><br></div><div>Notice how the issues are never only what someone else, with an interest to distract you, tells you they are. In any system simply doing its job at working as a system, you must get to the root of understanding how the system functions before you can safely do anything to impact it. On this planet all energy comes from the sun. Yet, some will use more of it in their daily life. Some will use much less. Much much less. It's not just _how much_ energy. But how much packed _energy density_ is being used, by everyone, and what is the distribution across "all everyones".</div><div><br></div><div>Once we get that economics is physics, and all that actually means, it will make much much more sense. </div><div><br></div><div>"Today" [5] (was supposed to be Monday) we watch _the power of the exponential curve_. It is shown here to show _the size_ of the issue, so that we grasp later, "tomorrow," the need for proportionally responding to that size of the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Anticipatedly "tomorrow" [6] we'll watch _systemic thinking_ and "the day after tomorrow," which is actually today [7], we'll watch the power of constructal law in connection to Voltera S-curves, which we've been studying for over four decades.</div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday serendipity had it that we went to testify on #Yates at the Nebraska Capitol. Three minutes are short, so I was brief. I could not fit in «I heard President Reagan's siren call I heard live, saying "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." and I came to Nebraska as fast as I could.»</div><div><br></div><div>In memory of Donald T Campbell and Paul Y Hammond. 🙏</div><div><br></div><div>Follow in the footsteps of the great.</div><div>Look inside.</div><div>Repeat.</div><div>[5]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/O133ppiVnWY">https://youtu.be/O133ppiVnWY</a></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-50101582670023384942022-01-24T20:43:00.000-05:002022-01-24T20:44:32.608-05:00#Count [4]<div dir="ltr">#Count the tasks on your back. Shake them all off—into the water. _Make them_ water.<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_Tell a better story. Let it grow._</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">A Great said "If someone else can do it, let them. Otherwise, get busy." Brilliant. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">We're told a story all life growing up that stuff is _our_ job. Learning new things. Doing house work in the family to make life work. When our turn comes, raising our youth. All correct. All true. All important. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Yet: after a while you grow. Your job grows—it grows much larger than one person can do alone anymore. When that moment comes you can no longer do _your_ job all alone. A team must do it. An ever growing team of teams. You're a storyteller now. You most do your job as storyteller. You must help folks follow and build inspiring stories in the future that you can help them have the courage and resolve to build for themselves.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Changing the world requires a proportional response to the size of the task at hand. (What many call "being a bigger hammer."—was originally bring, but we'll go with autocorrect this one time.) </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If the world is stone, you can't carry water to it with a pale, all by yourself. You must bring about quite a few storms and hurricanes to do what _you_ have to do to get the job done. #️⃣🧛♂️💨⛈🌊🌍</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">[We are late by one day. Sunday. We were busy applying our own strategic advise. 5 nationalities. 4 people. 3 continents and 3 young age groups. 2 years+. 1 great idea and plan for what's next. _Yates Global_ is born. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Watch carefully. Think. Well, count. How many years did it take, how many miles around the globe it took, for the story in the making in the picture to get here, so that it can advance from here everywhere ahead?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Don't you wish to know the "secret sauce" that we're hiding in the iPad?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Ask us👇and we might even tell. Can you recognize every place in the picture? Why do you feel they're chosen here?]</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dedicated to the memory of Donald T Campbell and Paul Y Hammond. 🙏</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Follow in the footsteps of the great.</div><div dir="ltr">Look inside. </div><div dir="ltr">Repeat.</div><div dir="ltr">[4]</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjd7xyoxC17j2bqzzP-WmAapj0B_cPvvUKkhKMEStyWv5SFabFV4if3lPTx_3fHcqMGYmyxvOqClQE_m7oML6NRT6IwGLaaxaBXdeFVy2huIHwMskRsuOsaSl8pSKW0oRIbh7nwgiC5NzZbvrQVQ2lwcd2e5FHjBUICCPhqnM92Zfwb0zKBrmgIrMtZ"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjd7xyoxC17j2bqzzP-WmAapj0B_cPvvUKkhKMEStyWv5SFabFV4if3lPTx_3fHcqMGYmyxvOqClQE_m7oML6NRT6IwGLaaxaBXdeFVy2huIHwMskRsuOsaSl8pSKW0oRIbh7nwgiC5NzZbvrQVQ2lwcd2e5FHjBUICCPhqnM92Zfwb0zKBrmgIrMtZ" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7056953704642058802" /></a><br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-50552179819550547962022-01-22T22:54:00.001-05:002022-01-22T22:54:35.598-05:00#Count [3]<div>#Count #️⃣🧛♂️ how many _stories_ you believe. How many are true?</div><div><br></div><div>Yet, you have no real data to verify most of those stories. Nor any easily available means to gather such data if you don't have it handy, to verify its accuracy and validity, and to ensure that the stories as told are backed up by data showing them as valid.</div><div><br></div><div>Some are obvious. Santa Claus, anyone?</div><div><br></div><div>Others are not so obvious.</div><div><br></div><div>Crime is up. Or down.</div><div>Is it, really, or did we just issue and count more, or less, police reports? What then is up? Or down? Crime, or police reporting?</div><div><br></div><div>Did police seek more crime because doing so will mean a raise? Or did they seek less as they were more comfortable eating donuts and less inclined to work the streets as hard?</div><div><br></div><div>Were crimes reported harder to find and report or (much) less hard to find and report than crimes that were actually not found and reported? Which crime is then up? Or down? The harsher crimes? Or the lesser crimes?</div><div><br></div><div>(Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani was famous for being successful at reducing crime. Except the reduction started a few years before he took office and correlated with and was likely caused by something totally different than the election of Rudy—check with Freakonomics, by Lewitt and Dubner, as they tell the story and actual counter story extremely well.)</div><div><br></div><div>Then let's imagine _all_ the stories that we just believe, or held to be true and still do, all our life so far and we want to keep holding true ahead for the future. This is much more serious than it may seem at first sight to the untrained eye.</div><div><br></div><div>Take property rights. They're actually _reduced_, not protected, by HOAs. Of course they are reduced. What were you thinking? Ask Bob Yapp.👇</div><div><br></div><div>Brands are cool. Of course. Believe that. We've been conditioned that way almost forever. Offer them all free advertising at your own expense, even though you may not own stock in them (yet). This is a hard one to at least count, let alone reduce further unnecessary damage. It's even worse when counting for a teenager you may have at home. Uniforms in schools may solve the issue somewhat, but let's not count on it too much. It's controversial.</div><div><br></div><div>Hard work pays off. Of course it does. This is true. But it's not as self evident as it may seem at first sight. Story with college is incomplete, and by far imperfect, if student loans were the price you paid for that success. Depending of field and how long it took for a degree or more, repaying loans may take away your chance at joining early enough the ranks of believers in the American dream story of home ownership, for example.</div><div><br></div><div>What do you mean, _story_ of home ownership? Bank owns a home until mortgage is fully paid off. You knew that. Put this story on the list. Because we believe that a home is a wealth creation vehicle. _It depends_.</div><div><br></div><div>Got my personalized ticket. I'm off to Cartwheel Galaxy. See y'all.😎</div><div><br></div><div>Dedicated to the memory of Donald T Campbell and Paul Y Hammond. Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Follow in the footsteps of the great.</div><div>Look inside. </div><div>Repeat. </div><div>[3]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSI3WahlyQW5PZsY2RiK9hyRtfA1oJ_tyjhfiYg31Dg0fQKb4lZRdwUt0jpvAbImHjBTiORyjZxXJLjNK0wTZwsexQmwPklTNJ4CWaWZFJngIk8UuwijfuOkDUz643rsKnX0XH5b0qmVU/s1600/image0-775641.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSI3WahlyQW5PZsY2RiK9hyRtfA1oJ_tyjhfiYg31Dg0fQKb4lZRdwUt0jpvAbImHjBTiORyjZxXJLjNK0wTZwsexQmwPklTNJ4CWaWZFJngIk8UuwijfuOkDUz643rsKnX0XH5b0qmVU/s320/image0-775641.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7056245046292403842" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQk0g3P2ESrBuZt9gW8rEyTG0lNKp5VpvHPZputE_m6Ym40AvySeJ92C3DBnLfIFR3AizRFtKUts-4qjBapM_n2prKraNBxtHoYjK3jLKirDjS1ZAP97rBtHotfWer2sVyTOGASOIhmg/s1600/image2-777179.jpeg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQQk0g3P2ESrBuZt9gW8rEyTG0lNKp5VpvHPZputE_m6Ym40AvySeJ92C3DBnLfIFR3AizRFtKUts-4qjBapM_n2prKraNBxtHoYjK3jLKirDjS1ZAP97rBtHotfWer2sVyTOGASOIhmg/s320/image2-777179.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7056245053205812306" /></a><br></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi71dbCsL9Kv7VapZMV3fXgJncsk8Rw_R7qpLlRfgYLAz82nzNeaC5k_E6NZKlN7A5xY5cdZqWvjuhGTDxoeFCP2g7obLF3Wk9KJuebLLWFOUetQsF-LPwjWJCG9obzYQvhDBsG7T3N1K0/s1600/image3-778447.jpeg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi71dbCsL9Kv7VapZMV3fXgJncsk8Rw_R7qpLlRfgYLAz82nzNeaC5k_E6NZKlN7A5xY5cdZqWvjuhGTDxoeFCP2g7obLF3Wk9KJuebLLWFOUetQsF-LPwjWJCG9obzYQvhDBsG7T3N1K0/s320/image3-778447.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_7056245056259443154" /></a><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-54088607768913553212022-01-21T12:21:00.001-05:002022-01-21T12:21:17.538-05:00#Count [2]<div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>In our new series #count, I ask </div><div><br></div><div>how many people are "like me"? </div><div><br></div><div>The answer is always two fold. First, it is _none_. Second, it is "it depends." </div><div><br></div><div>In what respect? is the intermediary question that _must be_ answered before one can start counting. </div><div><br></div><div>Having a dishwasher? That was answered in yesterday's video by Hans, twelve years ago. </div><div><br></div><div>Having read the US Constitution at 11 and having fallen in love with it, for life, in spite of the risks to life and liberty that entailed? One. Me. Because I was 11 y.o. in România and in 1976. Albeit as it turns out, you can love and recognize flaws in _something_ and want to change it to improve it, if only maybe dramatically, just the same. </div><div><br></div><div>Having one's right protected by the Constitution? What about by _a_ powerful Constitution, dedicated to truly protecting human rights? _That_ is where the difficulty of real actual counting starts. Try it for yourself and see how far you can get. Suggestions on how to proceed? Write them down and see how well we can solve this simple arithmetic question.👇</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, a good start on the learning journey, as pertaining so far to those on this land in the United States, over time, is here. Enjoy the show. It is much well worth it. If troubling, of course, as seeking truth always is. </div><div><br></div><div>We thank wholeheartedly the Weitz Family Foundation, our Yates Illuminates partners, for the chance to see the show, and for bringing the show here in Omaha. A great performance. </div><div><br></div><div>This series is dedicated wholeheartedly to the memory of Donald T. Campbell, and Paul Y. Hammond. Thank you. </div><div><br></div><div>"Follow in the footsteps of the great.</div><div>Look inside. </div><div>Repeat."</div><div>[2]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://constitutionbroadway.com/">https://constitutionbroadway.com/</a></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-79396939011728008002022-01-20T16:04:00.001-05:002022-01-20T16:04:46.035-05:00New one year series #Count [1]<div>Hans Rosling knew how to #count. He knew what may the world need to make it nicer to more of us everywhere. </div><div><br></div><div>With this, today, January 20, I start a new series here, under hashtag #️⃣ Count🧛♂️, for a year. It is intended to open everyone's minds as to how #numbers are all too often deceiving because we're not looking at them well enough. </div><div><br></div><div>(Thanks for the idea go of course to our wannabe world changer extraordinare, CEO of Tesla Motors—whom I usually call PT Barnum of this century, because he always blows smoke and wants to sound knowledgeable about things he has no idea about, from Mars "colonization" to you name it—as an example of how ignorance grows out of proportion based on the cult followership towards the promoter. Suffice it to say, I equate him to an irrelevant soccer ⚽️ player, as speaking in international economics or physics.)</div><div><br></div><div>This series is dedicated wholeheartedly to the memory of Donald T. Campbell, and Paul Y. Hammond. Thank you. </div><div><br></div><div>"Follow in the footsteps of the great.</div><div>Look inside. </div><div>Repeat."</div><div>[1]</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/BZoKfap4g4w">https://youtu.be/BZoKfap4g4w</a></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-31919730950692658972021-10-15T10:19:00.000-04:002021-10-15T10:20:02.440-04:00“You could have read that book at 11, but you didn’t, did you?! Why didn’t you?”<div>Honesty. (Including with oneself. In thorough analysis of _everything_.)</div><div><br></div><div>A forgotten trait? Or, rather, a systemically buried into the ground (ostrich like) skill we by far underutilize all too often?</div><div><br></div><div>"I read your resume. It still isn't very clear to me: What do you do?"</div><div>"I'm in sales. I've been in sales for forty+ years."</div><div>"You are? It doesn't say sales anywhere on your resume."</div><div>"Of course it doesn't. Most important things in communication are the ones that are not said. Peter Drucker said this, I think."</div><div>"What do you sell?"</div><div>"Smoke and mirrors."</div><div>"How do you mean?"</div><div>"It's a big lie. All the stories we tell are nothing but big lies. The one I've been most successful with for over two decades is 'education will change your life for the better.' That's what I mean by smoke and mirrors. If you can sell that you can sell anything."</div><div>"Education does change lives for the better. You're a liar!"</div><div>"It does, of course. The real question is 'by how much?' when you compare with the correct comparable. As for liar, didn't someone tell you that education will change your life for the better?"</div><div>"They did tell me, and it did."</div><div>"Of course it did. What do you do?" </div><div>"I'm the HR director here. You're supposed to know who's interviewing you."</div><div>"I know. You run the company? You own the company?"</div><div>"No, that's the CEO. The shareholders own it. I run HR."</div><div>"You own shares?"</div><div>"No. There are no stock options for us. Only for the VPs."</div><div>"That's what I thought. For how long is your contract?"</div><div>"I'm asking the questions here."</div><div>"Ok. It doesn't matter. This is a right to work state anyway, so however long your contract is it can end tomorrow."</div><div>"What does that have to do with anything?"</div><div>"What do you think? Only the good questions are worth answering, remember? We're just trying to figure out together how much of a difference in your life did education make in your case."</div><div>"It made a huge difference. My career would not have been where it is without my degrees and certifications."</div><div>"Of course not. But do you know where would you have been had you taken the other fork in the road, say when you were 11 y.o.?"</div><div>"You mean a life of crime? They asked me to sell marijuana on the corner. I refused, vehemently. Obviously. My parents taught me well to stay out of that kind of trouble."</div><div>"Of course they did. What book do you remember reading when you were 11, that marked your life forever?"</div><div>"None in particular. There weren't any good books back then."</div><div>"I bet there were. Say this one: 'One thousand ways to make $1,000' was first published in 1936. I bet you could've read it when you were 11, but you didn't, did you? Why didn't you?"</div><div>"I didn't know. Nobody asked me to."</div><div>"Here it is. https://lnkd.in/eQQNMNq8 Read it now. You have children?"</div><div>"Yes. Why?"</div><div>"Maybe you can improve their perspective on life. Show them they can choose their own books to read, without waiting for school or you parents to tell them what to do all the time. Maybe it'll help them, and society too."</div><div>"Your smoke is deep."</div><div>"Is it?..."😇</div><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief Future Architect, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">InnovationTrek</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We got here. What's next?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">Accelerate Innovation. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">In companies and self.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grow flow. Naturally.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-64971160277403869252021-03-11T02:56:00.001-05:002021-03-11T02:56:41.555-05:00Unleash the power of purposefully self induced autoregression (most of us call it simply _habit_)<div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">There will always be times when you'll feel<div>let down by the opinion of others about you. It will be even harsher on you when those critical opinions in question will come from those whose opinions matter much to you, and whom you've been accustomed (and conditioned) to want to please. </div><div><br></div><div>Don't let that happen. Don't let the opinions of others impact you. Ever. There is only one person you can compare yourself with at any and at all times. Yourself of yesterday, today. Better yet, yourself of today, tomorrow. That's it. </div><div><br></div><div>"It is extremely hard to break old habits and to strongly support & build daily, and every minute in fact, new better habits."</div><div><br></div><div>It may look hard. It's not. It's quite doable.</div><div><br></div><div>All it takes is just doing it. Again and again.</div><div><br></div><div>"Unleash the power within." These words must be trademarked & copyrighted by Tony Robbins. As if we care. As if it matters. No solution to anything about our advance in life can ever rely on rents paid to others. They can only rely strongest on our own efforts. </div><div><br></div><div>Dream big. Put in passion and effort. Love what you do, at it will all seem like play. Because it'll seem like play you'd be doing it over and over again. You will thrive. Guaranteed. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-40808631377112844772021-02-18T09:09:00.001-05:002021-02-18T09:09:15.511-05:00What’s in a name?, and little things that tell you how much they appreciate you.<span style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Many years ago at a place where I used to work I offered to volunteer to help in organizing a partnership with city and county officials. I called everyone as director of a graduate program and secured acceptances to all the invites I made—including with help from a graduate student in our program who was a county elected official himself.</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">When we were all done organizing we invited the President of the University and of course the Mayor and County Executive to keynote briefly before we went on into workings session to discuss and negotiate the entirety of our cooperative agreement with faculty and graduate students and city and county elected and appointed officials in charge. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As the event was reported in the university student newspaper, it turns out that "Dr. Jane Smith, President of the University, took part in the event organized by Adrian Petrescu and also attended by Brian Brown from the university."</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I wrote a letter to the newspaper editor, appreciating their work and reporting, and empathizing with the utility of the work to all students learning journalism first hand, including by mentioning that I too had learned journalism—and fighting with risks to life and liberty for free press—as a young writer in my university years in then socialist România. Then I asked that Brian (department chair, holding a Ph.D. and a J.D.) and myself, director, also be granted the courtesy of mentioning of our official positions and respective advanced degrees—that were required for us to be in the official positions that we held with the university—, if the Mayor and President etc were to be granted the deference allotted them. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I received back a reply letter from the student editor explaining that the student newspaper followed a particular journalistic writing style that did only use Dr. for medical doctors, along with a quoted paragraph from that style manual. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Suffice it to say that the University President's doctorate was in public relations. Please let me state directly: it was _not_ a Medical Doctor degree. Let me add that student newspapers in the United States are generally run by students under the supervision of a designated faculty sponsor. Also, in universities writing styles and their use and intricacies are obviously a taught and learned required competency. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">First off, I didn't appreciate the publishing of a selection of my letter to the editor, without my consent. Second, once the damage was done, the answer was beyond unacceptable in a university setting. Third, I expected the University President's swift intervention on our behalf, and meant to set the record straight. It did not happen. Fourth, and I know I'm expecting much too much here, but that's the reason I was being paid "the big bucks" after all, the true potential benefit that I realize and feel now that was fully missed back then and that was eluding the editor and the President and everyone altogether was never the issue I raised. It was, of course, as Peter Drucker usually pointed out, as with any communications: the most important thing was not even said. What they (someone, whoever that collective or individual someone should or could have been) could have inferred from my letter to the editor was the opportunity for asking me and listening to the stories that I could have shared about fighting for freedom of the press with serious risks to life and liberty back in my youth. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Today there is a place (of a few, actually) where these opportunities for learning and passing along new things exist here and now. No, not somewhere where I work. There, nobody asks as much or as often as they could. (I do tell stories as I teach and some learners like them and learn intensely from them but the majority don't seem to benefit too much from them though, too busy to be a version of Herbert Simon's busy Administrative Man. Yet, work doesn't really proactively seek or use help of mine in picking my brain on spreading knowledge I hold and could certainly be useful to everyone particularly these peculiar days and years). It's actually when visiting our butcher. He always asks about how would this or that be done in România or in Belgium. Naturally, but without necessarily ever insisting too much, some stories from back there and then may come out and he may ask for more details... </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Let that sink in. </div><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976678823591827101.post-8868023758503001312020-11-20T12:38:00.000-05:002020-11-20T12:39:04.283-05:00Three hundred and sixty five days—One entire year—in the project #CriticalThinking in 365 concepts<div>As we completed the project right on time, we filed for the election for Nebraska State Board of Education. Shortly, the pandemic reached Fremont Nebraska. This week we the community finally got Yates to build there Yates Illuminates, a community center for everyone. We get to index the last week of our project now. Soon we'll produce the printed version of the one year critical thinking axiomatic project. </div><div><br></div><div>The following project, that we started the very next day after finishing this project, we kept running for a month and then we decided to move it into a partnership on video with a friend. More will follow on that. Now that we have Yates we will most likely build a studio there and YouTube the project on parenting for liberty.</div><div><br></div><div>365. We started a new project on parenting for liberty.</div><div><br></div><div>364. Serve on the ALTAR of Science.</div><div>Ask</div><div>Learn</div><div>Think</div><div>Act</div><div>Repeat</div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-thinkbetter-thinkbetter-activity-6640289533105623043-W6G5">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-thinkbetter-thinkbetter-activity-6640289533105623043-W6G5</a></div><div><br></div><div>363. Hedge.</div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6639548205182840832-34m_">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6639548205182840832-34m_</a></div><div><br></div><div>362. Try to get your message across by persuading. Try harder. Even harder. With patience and endurance and resilience. Then again, _sue_ if you must.</div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6639142923625603073-53Qa">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6639142923625603073-53Qa</a></div><div><br></div><div>361. Whatever you think you are doing well, an elder will know (or once knew) how to do better. Or to not do at all. </div><div>Choose your friends with wisdom.</div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6638826441788182528-ce1q">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6638826441788182528-ce1q</a></div><div><br></div><div>360. No matter how cool you think you are you're merely opening doors to others who'll come after you and who may and will not even remember you ever existed. Keep opening them doors anyway. No matter what. </div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6638788294589104128-5xpw">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6638788294589104128-5xpw</a></div><div><br></div><div>359. Always beware those who think and act as in "We looked out the window from up there, and we thought, 'We're the cleverest of all, geniuses, and you're all stupid.'" They will always be caught eventually, and they will pay for their deeds. No question about it.</div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_it-may-be-the-biggest-tax-heist-ever-and-activity-6638424921594740736-31Fu">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_it-may-be-the-biggest-tax-heist-ever-and-activity-6638424921594740736-31Fu</a></div><div><br></div>358. Cheat legally. As much as you can. You'll be amazed at the results.<div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6638138608190582784-pne1">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aspetrescu_criticalthinking-activity-6638138608190582784-pne1</a></div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.<div>InnovationTrek</div><div><div><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 13pt;">(office)</span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="mailto:ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6">ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu</a> (private)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">http://www.linkedin.com/in/aspetrescu</a> <br></span></font></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is to not be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive." Abraham Maslow (1908-70)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Cogito, ergo sum" (Rene Descartes, 1596-1650) </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Who is John Galt?"</span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0