airborn again. and photo ready. all good.

Albert - you will be missed. And I have a bunch of other stuff to say, all good, but I said it to you in person and I wish you much success! ~ Ed

Actually a lot of the photos in that set, perhaps the majority, are by me. But it is interesting to note the two you picked for this blog post are both by Broden Schipul. That kid is passing me up already. Darn teenagers.

Thank you for the comment!

I'd still pin this one on mankind personally. A few reasons right off the bat:

1) They are rod reactors, not pebble bed reactors. Thus they radiate the water when we have newer technology that does not.
2) They should have been decommissioned a long time ago. It was planned. But they still needed them so they didn't.
3) Because we can't agree on where to store spent-fuel-rods they are stored in the same facility instead of another safer location (it was the spent fuel rods that were exposed first.) I believe the same thing is done in the US.
4) Yes they had generators in case of a loss of power, but those went underwater and then the backup battery died. So yes this is 2 levels of backup, but clearly that wasn't enough.
5) After those levels failed the backup plan was dumping water from helicopters. Thus there were no nearby storage tanks of additional water if needed.

If I were designing the nuclear power plants back in the 1960s I'd have probably designed the same thing. Or worse. What nature did point out to us is that our planning was not enough. Hence I call it the folly of man. (And I am guilty of it too!)

I think you call it "root cause analysis" Eloy. Getting to the root cause is very logical. It fixes things "once for all time for all users." #heh

You're welcome.

Thank you Bonnie. You make a great point. I have been writing like crazy. Most stuck in the purgatory of "draft" status. Some because they are satire and those always get me in trouble when people don't get the humor, or quote it out of context.

I am at a wall on photography, mostly leaving my camera at the office and I'm not sure if the battery is charged (the status of the battery being something I am usually acutely aware of).

Will keep trucking. It will come back. And thank you for the comment.

A further follow up to this part of Marc's comment:

Marc said --> "instead of sending much of your staff all over the place for conferences - hold an internal one in the style of a hackday or startupweekend which would help your staff get to know each other's style in the context of building interesting things for your existing customers."

A few issues with this. First - I have a bunch of Millennial employees. God love them, but frequently they won't believe what management says until it is confirmed by an outside source. So when they go see Garyvee talk and he emphasizes the same points I do on "just shut up and do it" or "everything is crap until a customer wants to pay for it" they believe him while I am the opera singer from their home town. So there is GREAT value to having third-party validation. And that is worth the cost of a 5k conference to me. Yes really.

Example: agile development is a code word for what programmers have done forever. Quit talking but hyper-communicate. Work in small iterations. Prototype faster. Get the product in the user's hands. But if you put the "agile" moniker on it buy-in goes through the roof. I don't care - I just need the results. Call it green, purple, red or agile; i truly don't care. And if having outside sources express this works best, I'm cool with that. What I do know is that real programming brings in real money. Period. Otherwise it is called "a hobby." (Not that there is anything wrong with having a hobby.)

For internal hack-days - internal brain storming is great and we have weekly internal "Schipul University" classes every Monday. These are done completely independent of me and were in fact CREATED independent of me too. They are part of our "Knowledge Sharing" company value. Someone had the idea and just did it. I now see the results so I stay out of the way and let the people do their thing.

I believe in ideas like Plato's cave. I just differentiate between ideas and business. This is a problem of the confluence of ideas and business and resources.

That said, your point on identifying "open doors with resources available" is well taken. There just aren't that many of those in small-biz or startup-land IMHO.

And Marc gets the award for MOST ACTIONABLE COMMENT. Reading these next:
http://www.slideshare.net/venturehacks/customer-d...
and http://steveblank.com/2010/02/25/customer-develop...

Any other suggested links Marc?

Also, you mentioned Vision which I addressed in another comment. THANK YOU!