MOTTO:
Sedentary mind is worse than sedentary body,
(my septoe)
Let’s face reality, my LENR ÜberTheorie paper (inspired
mainly from DGT’s Hyper Theory for the Hyperions), was neither approved nor assassinated by the
prominent members of the LENR community and that’s a sign it has not found the
way to their hearts or it was rejected by their brains.
I have decided to continue fighting and writing for my idea
of how we can make LENR to work and I am
speaking now to the young LENR workers of all ages. I dare to hope they will
accept me as one of them. At the surface and deep inside I seem to be old but
this is only a temporary state, actually I am permanently young- at least functionally/mentally.
A very important recent event in LENR/Cold Fusion education
was the Cold Fusion 101 Short Course at
MIT; professor Peter Hagelstein has warned the students: “this field can be
dangerous for your career!”
and this is right. I am coming with a very different message than
my famous namesake: “I bet that in 5 years the situation will be completely
reversed and working for what today it is called LENR will be a formidable
competitive advantage and a real professional privilege because this
science-technology will be on the straight way to conquer the energy market
including myriads of old and new applications”. I have told you about the great
obstacles on this way, but once these impediments removed, a genuine
super-stampede will start and it will a real delight for those who like
technological progress- as fast or even faster than in this story, for example:
Looking back on 40 years of the cellular phone:
http://www.gizmag.com/mobile-pnone-40-year-anniversary-photos/25677/
You will proudly look back to the
first 40 years of industrial LENR generators.
All I want, my dear
and daring young colleagues is to help you till this field will not become an
almost automatic generator of serial professional triumphs. Perhaps first of
all, please explore my blog; my life experience is there- it free and NOT paved
with good intentions because my style is difficult not populist at all. Please
discover how my vision has changed and improved, this will be good for our
future resonant collaboration. Exactly as you, I will try to learn continuously
up to the end-my end because the field has a glorious future- and how glorious
it will be how fast this depends on
you).
I have received a negative compliment these days from the
Black Widow or the Nagaina of the anti-New Energy plot, Ms Mary Yugo who measuring
my IQ has stated that I don’t own the sharpest tools in the box. This became a
revelation for me: my young readers who will make LENR great need specific
tools.
Good tools, sharp, the best tools available.
Now, in this short essay I will say first the essence:
a) the most important tool is Good Thinking, a subject that
has obsessed me- in positive sense during my entire professional career;
b) in the present complex world MANAGEMENT IS THE NEW
PHILOSOPHY the best guide for efficient thinking, the inexhaustible source
for developing problem solving skills, the inspiration of learning from
kindergarten to university, PhD and for getting high awards in research and
development. Equally useful as basic science and living mathematics. You will
be able to learn more from Edward de Bono than from Nietzsche, from Jim Rohn
than from Heidegger and from Nicholas Nassim Taleb than from Soren Kirkegaard.
This time I am using a few recent papers of the type I have
used formerly for my INFO labeled publication; these were not read so I ceased
to write them after more than a decade but I am still collecting the most
challenging and potentially useful ones.. A mixed bunch of papers mainly about
management. I try to show you that they carry messages of interest for the LENR
workers.
These are not written by the great gurus of management but
by living nice authors whom I have followed for years.
A first example that inspired me this kind of writing:
In 100 Words: Climbing Molehills Without Sweating:
A very simple story about a costly standard error in real
life and at work; it is applied in LENR too. Like Lucy, we search for useful
LENR in PdD instead of NiH where it is.
The author of this blog writes convincingly and is a great
master
telling much in few words, not septoes but “centoes”
More papers about learning and creativity, positive
stimulative ones
Today, LENR is a field still mined
with uncertainties, therefore those who claim to be knowers can do a lot of
harm stopping the ideas of the learners who dare to take the risks and follow
new paths. A sensitive subject- I have already written a lot about those who
have strong certainties it will be a special lesson about this area. I need
your help & opinions. By the way, I have already received inspiration and
fine ideas- this morning- from Axil a colleague and good, generous friend who
has demonstrated admirable courage and unique scientific culture in his
messages:\
It is deeply personal but I hope he
will not mind that I am citing him:
“ (When dealing with a new subject)
I would always memorize it in great detail. Even though the effort was
very difficult and time consuming, this technique was a means that usually led
to eventual success in the analysis of these varied systems. Like an old fire horse
that always jumps to the sound of the fire alarm, they cannot help themselves.
It is how they have grown to be and cannot change; so too with me. My constant
improvement to theory is my way to memorize the LENR system in all its subtleties and in all its complexity .” Thank you, Axil!
It is a great achievment to recognize the
complexity and the subtetlies of LENR, but it is my duty to add a warning about
its inherent wickedness or ill-will of LENR- see the reproducibility and later,
control, problems. Beware of any kind of personification perhaps it is just a
special extreme case of validity of my 5th problem solving rule:
5. NOT what we know, but what we don’t know
is always more important for solving the problem.
Creativity stimulating taxonomy coupled with a
grand synthesis of
daring, challenging, new, standard, verified
and unverified, mainstream and heretical, clear and still hazy ideas – this is
not a job for everybody! Prepare yourself for it my young LENR colleague! Even
when you will not be able to throw a stone without hitting a LENR generator,
you will have a lot to do, to discover, to fix, to reinvent.
May I remind you that "The world is
constructed designedly, just in order to fulfill the interest of the scientist,
being infinitely complex and perfectible, providing an endless and eternal
field of thinking and action for him." Y.H.Prum see my old paper here: http://newenergytimes.com/v2/archives/fic/F/F199108.PDF
If you have thought this is an exaggeration,
one year of work in LENR will convince you about the contrary.
What can you learn from your
professional rivals:
Exaggerated rivalry is destructive in all stages however
before the stage of over-exponential growth. it is simply absurd for a quasi-infinite market.
Management and business have created a wonderful concept and
practice that’s called coopetition. You, young LENR worker, you must be a
champion of coopetition, both you and your rival are in deep trouble just by
working in this field. Compete smartly but collaborate also wisely; you need
synergies.
We need a new kind of learner:
The theory of critical thinking is an
intellectual masterpiece, I have read books and papers about it. This paper
says it will become a reality and the efficiency of learning will increase. In
any case, only those apt in using critical thinking will succeed in LENR
The future of learning is the future of work:
Harold Jarche became fast one of my favorite blog authors, he has the
ability to show the essence of issues and new ideas.This essay is about what
has added the Internet to learning in the 21st century. Be grateful
for the Internet and the Web for the new dimensions of communication and
information.
Big Think's Guide to Thinking and Doing Bigger in
2013:
You need to “think big” ergo you need http://bigthink.com
Daily. Thinking big is thinking both holistically- to see
the details in the whole and to think holographically- to see the whole
(problem, field) in the very details. To think big is also to climb high on the
DIKW scale. Arthur C.Clarke has added Prediction to Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom.
Using The Power of Certainty to Drive Growth in an
Uncertain World:
A great opportunity to you to meet Daniel Burrus. Please start with his
quotations and if you have just a bit of love for technology and management in
your soul you will be captivated and mesmerized and you will try to read more
and more from this author. In this case it s about uncertainty and how to cope
with it something still too present and active in LENR.
Why Focus
Makes Us Smarter--and 8 Ways to Sharpen Yours
Actually these are practical advices how to improve your resilience and mental
toughness. Not stubbornness but the ability to survive in very hostile
conditions, being able to process fast and painlessly your unavoidable failures
and disillusions. And much before feeling the advantages of good focusing you
will learn that dis-focussing is a capital sin in research.
The
lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn!:
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/assessing-the-evidence-for-the-one-thing-you-never-get-taught-in-school-how-to-learn
The best comes at the end of this sub-series: I have written many
editorials about the necessity to teach our students how to learn.
Zero impact, zero-feedback, the Romanian education system is very
inert. In our LENR University
Building the skills of insight:
I adore the word INSIGHT; however for LENR or HHENI I
prefer to use “deep understanding”
You, young friend are sentenced to be creative. The
following two papers can inspire you.
Creativity Is Like a Slot Machine by Maria Popova
“To invent, you have to take the odd and the strange
combination of the years of knowledge and experience.”
The Science of Creativity in 2013: Looking Back to
Look Forward:
About errors in thinking:
I would make a huge error in thinking by trying to explain
these papers. You have to meet the evil, especially the evil inside alone and
develop immunity to it, step by step.
Remember this Grook:
THE ROAD TO WISDOM?
Well, it's plain
and simple to express.
Err and err and err again,
but less and less and
less.
You have to discover alone the
shortcuts on this road. I confess that my fine collection of my own errors is a
source of learning but a very personal source. Make you own collection, please!
I am offering you a fine group of papers
about the different ways to err. It is up to you to learn how to err less,
asymptotically less.
Cognitive Biases: Why We Make Irrational Decisions:
Why We Act Against Our Own Best Interest
It's Time to Stop Validating Ignorance:
Dealing With the Danger of Cognitive Hubris
The tools
It would be useful for you to learn a lot about what Woody
Allen has called his second favorite organ. Not an easy pleasant lecture but
your future is a direct function of the functionality of your brain. Discover
the 101 of human neurosciences.
Has Evolution Given Humans Unique
Brain Structures?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222120753.htm
When will science give us better brains?:
Are we near to the limits of
our tools???
I regret that I had to include here
a tragic, apocalyptic aspect of our future. End of world, end of human
intelligence these similar mental products are unavoidable and popular. OK, I
have not the sharpest tools, I can admit it, but have we indeed reached –
generally speaking- the limits of human intelligence? Is the general global
intelligence decreasing slowly and irreversibly? In LENR and at the neighbors
the theories are not more usable for practice -is this a symptom of the crisis
in thinking?
Is Scientific Genius Extinct?:
Sincerely, I cannot answer. Perhaps I am not intelligent
enough to understand the problem, I have always believed that the possibilities
of the human mind are limitless and can be extended by AI, you know Singularity
and stuff like that.
Can We Reach the End of Knowledge?
Regarding LENR I have predicted it will be solved by a
hybrid approach both scientific and technological; later we will be able to
understand all the details and then new details will appear.
The Reason We Lose at Games: Some Games Simply Too
Complex for the Human Mind to Understand:
As I have told elsewhere, I was a
good chess player, however I failed to learn Go but I was happy to see great
masters of this play. It can be about human diversity.
The following two papers are about
the end of the (great) innovation. Some people are paid to make
predictions, pessimistic ones that are more popular than optimist ones, just think
about the end of world. Please take my word, it is possible that human
intelligence is in some danger but Homo discontentus will continue to invent
and to build great things. Hyperion generators will be a bright example.
Has the World Reached the End of Innovation?
Chip
daddy Mead: 'A bunch of big egos' are strangling science. The scientific
revolution has stalled, here's how to kickstart it
This paper was kindly sent by Yiannis Hadjichristos this
morning. It is mainly about the negative role of the great egoistic Knowers who
are staying in the way of other, usually younger creative learners. Read it,
you will find a horrifying example of how Carlo Cipolla\s second law was
applied to two semi-gods of physics. It will be easier to you to get rid of
post-logical thinking see: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2011/03/modes-of-thinking-my-taxonomy.html during your entire career, an enormous
competitive advantage, especially if you keep it secret.
We need people familiar with
complexity
Be aware it will be extremely hard; beautiful and elegant
equations will try all the tricks to seduce
your mind. I implore you to resist to their siren song, they are only a part of
the reflection of an infinitely rich reality. Make love to them but do not
marry them- this is a metaphor.
Managing in complexity:
Handle complexity with evidence, not opinion
Taming complexity:
Read please these 3 papers but be aware: you will need a special
course in complexity theory.
Miscellanea
This paper is intended for my reader Bettingham who thinks
that
if the LENR technology, specifically DGT’s, will not be made
public for free as the Salk vaccine, many people will continue to die of
hunger. I am trying to explain him that free technologies in the energy sector
will not develop but fade away and what moves them forward is mainly
re-invested profit. The problem of hunger could be solved if we put limits to
consumerism and losses of food, see:
To Solve
the World Food Crisis, Stop Wastage:
The last paper today is just an opportunity to say that English
is great is the WWW language, but you – in your own interest and for the sake
of your brain, make the necessary efforts to NOT remain monolingual. Do not
forget, LENR is for the world and needs the contribution of scientists from
everywhere.
“LENR-ists from all countries, unite!”
25 handy words that simply do not exist in English:
I hope that despite the somewhat aleatory nature of the
sources and examples I have used, you have got a preliminary imagine of the
course I have started to prepare for you.
It will not be a 101 introductory type, much more a 1001
type
making you able to confront any Shahryār
for long time and win.
In other words a good collection of tools.
But, my friends from 10
to 100 years young, so much depends on your feedback!!!
Peter
With Peter' permission, I would suggest one more tool in his impressive proposed tool box for young scientists in this field: Team building as a prerequisite of any effort in such complex (in terms of non-linear) phenomena field of research.
ReplyDeleteA good set of related papers one can access in http://www.questia.com/library/psychology/groups-and-organizations/team-building
Thank you Peter
John Hadjichristos
Thank you,
DeleteI am subscribed to Questia library and it is excellent.
HOWEVER the list of tools is completed only say 15% considering only the most basic tools. Please observe
that even a primitive taxonomy of the tools is not shown yet.
The list is also a job for a good team.
We have to continue,
Peter