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Ben Tremblay · @bentrem

20th Oct 2010 from Twitlonger

Arno Penzias is a hero. Nobel for background radiation is pretty kewl. Head of R&D for AT&T is likewise kewl. But the zinger? His "set up to fail" notion.
Now you gotta understand: I grew up on this stuff. Sure sure sure, NASA/Mercury. How about Black Brant out of Churchill?
So stuff like Lockheed Martin "skunkworks" was ... well, like Jack Bruce and Cream. Or Buddy Miles and Band of Gypsies.

"Set up to fail" (minimum resources; maximum monitoring) had one key point: nobody invested ego. So just how the concept failed (or succeeded) was viewed ... soberly. Objectively. Perhaps with a bit of irony.
That's how some of us roll.
/We/ smoke dope; /you/ get messed up. /We/ drink into the wee hours; /you/ get messed up. It's existential.

So "How to Succeed and Influence People With Positive Thinking" for me is a fascist bible. It's about rhetoric at best. More likely it's about sophistry.

My point is this: I talk to someone, I'm in SigInt. I talk to someone else, I'm running Master Control. Someone else, they fly me into the Arctic to rescue the NORAD/SAC microwave system.
That sort of thing.

People who make a living getting things done hear what I'm saying.
Human Resources type are likely to call security and have me escorted out of the building.

Elevator pitch?
Gimme 2 minutes in an elevator ... call it pitch or not, whatevuh.

When you filter things from the start you do notRPTnot have an existential grasp of reality.
And nothing else matters.

I'm into actualities.
How are you.
I hope you are well.
I call myself ben.

cheers

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