Perspectives
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The individual as “value proposition.”
“A value proposition is a business or marketing statement that summarizes why a consumer should buy a product or use...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
A procrastinator’s “Hair of the Dog.”
“If your job is to eat a frog, eat it first thing in the morning, and if your job is...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Saving for a rainy day.
“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Red States and Blue States.
Here in the United States, merely to mention “red states and blue states” is to activate a strong Pavlovian response....
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Attribution.
Actual conversation this morning between an anonymous atmospheric scientist and an intelligent, educated, cheery layperson in his life (also unnamed) but...
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.”...
