What if you believed the story they were trying to tell us: that each year, as sure as winter follows summer, and day follows night, computers would get half again better, and half again smaller, and half again cheaper, year after year, and that in 5 decades they would be 30 million times more powerful than they were then, and cheap. Question Your Life: Naikan Self-Reflection and the Transformation of Our Stories - Gregg Krech. 2. have new ideas and skills to do a better job. X Research source. After 20 years with Schlumberger in various positions, she returned to academia as a full professor of chemical engineering at the U. of Houston, where she has served as Director of the Petroleum Engineering Program as an adjunct professor since January 2000. We didnt work on (1) time travel, (2) teleportation, and (3) antigravity. It may be easier said than done, but one of the biggest factors in taking time to reflect should be stillness and, if possible, solitude. Late reflections are those that arrive after about 60 ms following the reception of the direct signal. Its Moores law. Actually, our son played a role in all this as well, and I look forward to seeing Alex make his mark in the energy industry before long. During a recession and a cleantech backlash. The people listed in her article have all subscribed to the rigorous analysis that was necessary, and they, as she has, have left their mark in the improved understanding we now often take for granted. Without technology eradicated disease such as smallpox or the Spanish flu could have been still rampant since the 1800's. Getting a simple cold could be life threatening without technology. : Theoretical Analysis of Pressure Phenomena Associated With the Wireline Formation Tester,. Reflection-in-action "Thinking about what you are doing, while you are doing it." (Schn, 1983) Reflection-in-action happens in what Schn (1983) describes as 'the midst of activity' - in coaching terms this is likely to be during a coaching session or game. Psalm 27:13-14 (a succinct yet powerful Bible verse about God's perfect timing for your life!) One reason is that our form of energy, oil, is misunderstood by most people, including many of us in the petroleum industry. These areas shared a number of generic problems and solutions, for example, the need to isolate a substance (natural product, synthetic product, body substance) in chemically pure form, the need to synthesize the substance and to do so economically if it was to go on the market, and the need for pharmacological, chemotherapeutic, toxicological, and clinical testing of the substance. Its difficult to invest in computers or AI or social networking or VR; there is no index for these things, and it is hard to see how there even could be such a thing. Meaning to say the development of technology should have proper timing. The most important development for well-test interpretation was still to come: the pressure derivative. When Marc and Ben first started Andreessen Horowitz, they described this founder leadership capability as egomaniacal. Their theorynotwithstanding the choice of wordswas that to make the decision to be a founder (a job fraught with likely failure), an individual needed to be so confident in her abilities to succeed that she would border on being so self-absorbed as to be truly egomaniacal. Ummon addressed the assembly and said: I am not asking you about the days before the fifteenth of the month. Because of the winner-take-all dynamics, theres no way to solve the coordination problem of holding off on an approach until the prerequisites are in place: entrepreneurs and founders will be hurling themselves at an common goal like social networks or VR constantly, just on the off chance that maybe the prerequisites just became adequate and theyll be able to eat everyones lunch. You may find the questions listed above can help you to develop an outline before you write your paper. Yet they all seemed to be independently aiming for the same archetypal design. What if instead of threatening to sue them, we tried working with them?, Venmo: TextPayMe worked out well, right?, Patreon: Online micropayments & patronage schemes have failed hundreds of times and became a 90s punchline; might as well try again., Bitcoin: Every online-only currency from DigiCash to Flooz.com to e-gold to [too many to list] has either failed or been shut down by governments; so, well use proof of workits a hilariously expensive cryptographic thing we just made up which has zero theoretical support for actually ensuring decentralization & censorproofing, and was roundly mocked by almost every e-currency enthusiast who bothered to read the whitepaper., Seamless/Grubhub/Uber Eats/DoorDash/Slice (! On phones! If you think about the spectrum of things in which you could invest, there are good ideas that look like good ideas. 2. And pity, because the sad thing is noting how few future millionaires or billionaires grace the page of TMLone quickly realizes that yes, person X was 100% right about Y happening even when everyone thought it insane, except that X was just a bit off, by a few years, and either jumped the gun or was too late, and so some other Z who doesnt even appear in TML was the person who wound up taking all the spoils. Jr.: An Investigation of Wellbore Storage and Skin Effect in Unsteady Liquid Flow: I. Analytical Treatment,, Horner, D.R. And, incidentally, offering an example of why stock markets are fine with paying executives so much: a good executive can createor destroythe entire company. If you arent struck by a sense of dj vu or pity when you read this book, compare the claims by people at the Media Lab with contemporaryor laterworks like Clifford Stolls Silicon Snake Oil, and youll see how right they were. Three-dimensional-seismic-data acquisition and interpretation and borehole images became widespread while I worked in integrated reservoir characterization. A valuable outcome is a result that has practical importance for clinical or preventive medicine and, implicitly, commercial value for industry. Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain (Ep. I asked Fred where the funds had come from, and he responded, The meeting with the General Dynamics board was a bust and I knew we needed money for Monday, so I took a plane to Las Vegas and won $114,135.9$27,000.01973. I said, You mean you took our last $21,136.3$5,000.01973how could you do that? He shrugged his shoulders and said, What difference did it make? What would you do with it? The aim of this study was to investigate the practice and timing self-reflection by primary schools teachers, with the aim of encouraging the use of self-reflection to improve teacher's practice. The greater part of a century had to elapse before the vacuum tube arrived on the scene. Youve invented taxis & buses. Because some development may not be appropriate to the time. However, the pressure data showed the same oscillatory behavior. Although, I have used technology in my classroom before, now I. In their book Edisons Electric Light: Biography of an Invention, Robert Friedel, Paul Israel, and Bernard Finn list 23 inventors of incandescent bulbs prior to Edison. He saw a need for government support of appropriate institutions, especially research institutes in universities. Maybe somebody found a new gene. If the answer is no, then this is the team to back. The problem with timing is that every innovation only has a relatively small window of opportunity that happens when the technology and customers are ready, but there isn't much entrenched competition. Suppose you somehow knew in 2000 that in 2010, the founder of the most successful social network will be worth at least $10b; this is a falsifiable belief at odds with all conventional wisdom and about a tech that blindsided everyone. 1. As Digital Promise team members who have researched and supported teachers' use of educational technology, we want to recognize and celebrate your successes. Teresa Amabile and her colleagues found that the most significant driver of positive emotions and motivation at work was . A more practical approach is to embrace uncertainty, taking a reinforcement learning perspective. But to come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two very different things, as the history of science teaches us. In this edition, we are reminded that rigorous technical work is one of the pillars of our industry. But recent estimates [9, 10], which are summarized in Tables 7.1 and 7.2, indicate that this is not so, and that the balance of advantage in terms of sheer information-handling power may eventually like with the computer rather than the brain. This balances overall exploitation & exploration to progress as fast as possible, showing the usefulness of technological forecasting on a global level despite its uselessness to individuals. There are some benefits and advantages associated or linked to having a day that is without the use of any technology. The third big area of team investigation for VCs focuses on the founders leadership abilities. The challenge had always been to come up with a closed-form solution that related to time. Yes). Time and race number: done. Its not enough to theorize about the possibility or prototype something in the lab if there is then no followup. While each time a failed option is tried, it may seem irrational (how many times must VR fail before people finally give up on it), it was still rational in the big picture to give it a try, as this collective strategy collectively minimizes regret & maximizes collective total long-term returnsas long as failed options arent tried too often. Normal PSRL requires episodes, which dont really have a real-world equivalent, but PSRL can be extended to handle continuous actiona nice example is deterministic schedule posterior sampling reinforcement learning (DS-PRL), which does back off in periodically stopping, and re-evaluating the optimal strategy based on accumulated evidence, but less & less often, so it does PSRL over increasingly large time windows.. During that time, I became interested in the notion that petroleum engineers might be better educated with a broader scope, what I would call energy engineering. Cell phones, computers, radios, watches, and many other devices rely for their success on an electronic oscillator that produces an output with a precise frequency to generate timing pulses and synchronize events. And the Media Lab wasnt the only one, General Magic (1989), had an almost identical vision of a networked future powered by small touchscreen devices. Researchers in general have no incentive to say, this is not the right time, wait another 20 years for Moores law to make it doable, even if everyone in the field is perfectly aware of thisPalmer Luckey: I spent a huge amount of time readingI think that there were a lot of people that were giving VR too much credit, because they were working as VR researchers. Here again we must be pessimistic. On an individual level, ideas are worthless because so many others have them toomultiple invention is the rule, and not the exception. Online safety, security, ethics, and etiquette. If 2020 has taught us anything, it's that the key is to stay nimble, adaptive, and be prepared for unexpected change. Start a hobby. This year has caused financial services firms to rethink . Imagine this: You wake up one day in a world without technology - all the computers on the planet just disappeared. Example: in retrospect, we know everyone wanted computers, OSes, social networksbut the history of them is strewn with flaming rubble. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?). I was expecting smartphones to take off in mid 2004 and was disappointed over and over again. Firefox: we are going to build a better web browser, even though 90% of the worlds computers already have a free one built in. In addition, reflection is about stepping back to remind ourselves of the group's long-term aspirations and the role of near-term actions in accomplishing it.. . Kafkas idiosyncrasy is present in each of these writings, to a greater or lesser degree, but if Kafka had not written, we would not perceive it; that is to say, it would not exist. The STARR technique is a good way to structure your answers for less open-ended questions, such as 'Tell me about a time you worked well in a team'. Conclusion. This is especially difficult as . After that, an explosion of new models presented on log-log coordinates appeared in the mushrooming well-test literature. For example, researchers have shown that time of day explains about 20 percent of the variance in human performance on cognitive tasks. Well differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being aholes. Perhaps had Kelleher known intimately of all the challenges of entering the airline business, he would have run screaming from the challenge versus deciding to take on the full set of risks. Reverse salients are areas of research and development that are lagging in some obvious way behind the general line of advance. Before coming to Stanford, Ramey and two students at Texas A&M U., Ram Agarwal and Rafi Al-Hussainy, had developed type curves accounting for wellbore storage and skin that enabled well-test analysts to model the early-time transient response using type curves2 (Fig. About a month later, I went to interview with Flopetrol Johnston in France and met Dominique Bourdet. Now BP is Beyond Petroleum. In essence, this means that usually the time isn't right for most innovations. And even when there are stocks available to buy, you only benefit based on the specificslike one of the existing stocks being a winner, rather than all the stocks being eaten by some new startup. Though, the right moment cannot be known exactly in advance, so attempts to forecast will typically be off by years or worse. Alfred North Whitehead, The Organization of Thought (1917). This is true but I would say it reverses the order (N to N+1? Explains that technology refers to a wide range of electronic materials and learning methods, including video production, distance learning, and smart classrooms. I ended up doing more work in Japan than anything else because Japan in general is so tech-smitten and obsessed that they just love it [VR]. I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Tesla: instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. The motivation to take something into the real world, which necessarily requires attacking the reverse salients, may be part of why corporate & academic research are both necessary; too little of either creates a bottleneck. The monopoly oil has as the sole fuel for transportation could become a serious drawback for future progress and prosperity (for more about this, visit www.ceeti.org). We managed to get a taste of the experience with something called the Power GloveSony actually brought out a little near-eye display called Virtual Boy; not very good, but they gave it their best shot. Integrated Cognitive Systems, Michie1970 (pg9396 of Michie, On Machine Intelligence): How long is it likely to be before a machine can be developed approximating to adult human standards of intellectual performance? As we discussed earlier, optogenetics and expansion microscopy both begin from papers from other fields, some of which are quite old and which mostly had been ignored by other people. Be still. If you knew for certain that Facebook would be as huge as it was, what stocks, exactly, could you have invested in, pre-IPO, to capture gains from its growth? Come and give me a word about those days. And he himself gave the answer for them: Every day is a good day.. Further, 95% of the energy for transportation comes from oil. Reindex into what, another doomed firm?). I basically think all the ideas of the 90s that everybody had about how this stuff was going to work, I think they were all right, they were all correct. One idea is that a VC firm could explicitly track ideas that seem great but have had several failed startups, and try to schedule additional investments at ever greater intervals (similar to DS-PRL), which bounds losses (if the idea turns out to be truly a bad idea after all) but ensures eventual success (if a good one). In a counterfactual world, Google went down in flames quite easily because it never hit upon the advertising innovations that saved it, no matter how much you liked PageRank, and anything else is hindsight bias. Richard Hamming describes ripe time as finally enabling attacks on consequential problems22 Edward Boyden describes the development of both optogenetics & expansion microscopy as failure rebooting, revisiting (failed) past ideas which may now be workable in the light of progress in other areas23. By important I mean guaranteed a Nobel Prize and any sum of money you want to mention. As time passes, the number of options may open up, and any of them may bypass what was formerly a necessary or serial dependency which was fatal. Mark Zuckerberg, in 2004, wanted nothing more than to sell Facebook for a few million dollars so he could work on his P2P filesharing program, Wirehog, commenting that the sale price just needed to be large enough to propel Wirehog. Youtube was a dating site. First of all, you'd wake up late because your smartphone alarm no longer exists. Dropbox: we are going to build a file sharing and syncing solution when the market has a dozen of them that no one uses, supported by big companies like Microsoft. One was formation testing,9,10 the other production-log testing.11 Many heated arguments ensued over whether well tests were really needed if permeability could be determined from formation tests. View 2 SanDisk Extreme Portab. The tempting deals are the bad ideas that look like good ideas, yet they ultimately contain some hidden flaw that reveals their true badness. Facebook is the biggest archive of photographs there has ever been, with truly colossal storage requirements; could it have succeeded in the 1990s? [8: European AISB Newsletter, no. o Activity Report: Timing your Technology. Bloomberg News. After all, why would they say no? See also An Oral History of Nintendos Power Glove, and Polygons oral history of the Kinect, All the money in the world couldnt make Kinect happen: For a moment a decade ago, the game industry looked like a very different place.. But it was left to Eckert and Mauchly [16] several years later to rediscover and implement the conceptions of stored programs and conditional jumps, which had already been present in Babbages analytical engine [17]. Lets imagine a different scenario, where instead you were confident that home robotics were about to experience a huge growth spurt. Academy of Engineering in 2003. Ehlig-Economides, C.A., Mowat, G.R., and Corbett, C.: Techniques for Multibranch Well Trajectory Design in the Context of a Three-Dimensional Reservoir Model, paper SPE 35505 presented at the European 3D Reservoir Modeling Conference in Stavanger, 1617 April 1996. Put simply, it's not the time lead or the technology; it's what a firm does with its time lead and . 2. 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