Category: Valley Hi

the flat spot of progress

When Hiroshima Freezes Over

Posted on Posted in Valley Hi

so the japanese are buying, continues …

It is now more than a month since you met. Their agent has your papers, your deadline approaches. You have been in a holding pattern for over a month. And they ask for a couple more weeks before they respond. You are hoping the response is acceptance, but how likely is that?

Consider the strategy of two knives. Take one long and one short, is the best answer. Consider the method of the sumo. Direct action is necessary, yet dangerous to the smaller opponent. A large person delaying action, like a well armored opponent, delays only for their additional advantage. They gain by your hesitation.

Recover by increased movement, that they fail to notice or expect. Unbalance their effort. Ignore their advance…do not wait for Hiroshima to freeze.

RU-A-?SP0M-R

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, Valley Hi

If you are several people, working on several projects that support or seek to produce structure to fuzzy goals, are you a spamer, as well. You may look like it, at least to a singular outlier.

Several months ago, my interests overlapped with those of someone who had been asked to investigate the funding of a single person business that has lived off an unlikely funding source. Different, but not so different. The difference is the reason, not the method. Method is simple. Ask a focused group, focusing questions. Search for alternates to the first batch. Rinse, repeat as necessary. Meaning until time, money, or interest expire.

But the odd thing, as we are ending the data collection, in the expand your reach finale, a person of peripheral influence thinks us a spamer… or phisher, neither of course would be accurate words for what he thinks is happening.

And in another month the good folks at a MEMS-based sensor manufacturer will be told the results. Say hello to the internet and the very small village of italian breakfasts.