Makers and Managers

Oh, to be able to get back into the "maker" mentality...

"When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. There's always something coming on the next hour; the only question is what. But when someone on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to think about it."

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Complacency at sea...

""Complacency continues to be a major factor in many of the accidents investigated by the MAIB. The word 'complacency' is used by the MAIB, not to imply smugness or self-satisfaction, but to reflect the natural human consequence resulting from familiarity with a task or operation." From a report in Britain that too few Sailors are aboard ships...

We'd never let that happen to the US Navy...would we?

Danger, Chester Nimitz...

I don't know who wrote this...but it's been reprinted at "I like the cut of his jib"...

"Navy leaders have a responsibility to make sure that their subordinates are challenged, rewarded, promoted and moved on to more demanding and more senior assignments in the most thoughtful and deliberate manner possible.."

This line is one of the most abused in the Navy. Many of today's "heavy lifting" staff jobs are hard and heavy because of poor leadership, poor planning, and wishful thinking...wrapped up in vacillation.

Ugh.

Wedding Entrance

It's not particularly, technically, well done. But they sure had fun.