Posts by CElliott

1) Message boards : News : BOINC in Retrospect (Message 108969)
Posted 5 Jul 2022 by CElliott
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David,
You are too hard on yourself. The BOINC and SETI@Home projects went well for many years and while you were in charge. What wrecked both projects was climate change. Many influential people started asking, after many years of work, many thousands of dollars spent, and many billions of kilowatts of electricity consumed, where are the results?

Read Stark, R. (2005). The Victory of Reason, New York: Random House. Then, like NASA or the Defense Department, position your efforts as bringing progress to society, and as helping people free themselves from the tyrannies of poverty and ignorance. National cultures are like tectonic plates: When two such cultures meet one inevitably subsumes itself under the other. ET is all grown up now. Do you and the rest of the people on Earth want to be working for him? For free?

What ever happened to Rom Walton? What is the point of working for a university for many years, probably at relatively low wages, and not being encouraged or forced to take courses on the side so as to enable one to make contributions at a higher level in their or another organization?

"Everybody whoever made it had a mentor" is the title of a popular Harvard Business Review article and close to the truth. It took years to prepare people like Douglas MacArthur (Army Chief of Staff and eventually Supreme Commander in the Pacific and Military Governor of Japan) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (Supreme Commander in Europe, First NATO Commander, President of Columbia University, and President of the United States) for the highly specialized jobs they held. MacArthur was a product of a General Fox, a leader in the Spanish-American War, and MacArthur in turn developed Eisenhower into the person he became by forcing him to study what it took to win a European war.



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