Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Renewal
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Value of Information: the imponderable
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all –...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Four trends ratchet up the value of Earth information.
Four seismic shifts are underway that will combine to make Earth information increasingly valuable – unimaginably more valuable – over...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The value of Earth Observations, Science and Services – about to skyrocket.
“I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The transcendent value of Valuation
“In the spring a young economist’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of… valuation.” “Valuations are nothing, but Valuation is everything.”...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Theory X, Theory Y, and the genesis of red tape in science.
“Suppose you’re running a widget factory. You can measure, very quickly, whether a man [sic] is working effectively or not...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
(living on the) Real-World reset.
Seven weeks have passed since the previous LOTRW post. For the world’s billions, life has gone on. LOTRW’s silence has...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The 2016 AMS Annual Meeting, 3-fold problems, and Martin Luther King
If a man is thirty-seven years old, as I am, and compromises what he believes in or knows to be...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The 2016 AMS Annual Meeting. Big Data.
Every year, I look forward to coming to the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. Some of the motivation remains the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Weather stories that will endure throughout 2016 and beyond.
Weather has figured in the news as we close out 2015 and enter 2016. For example, writing in the Washington...
