tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post4878267223306636716..comments2024-03-27T21:23:40.339-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: Weekend thought: The Stockdale ParadoxChemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-24352847348703605002015-12-28T19:54:36.805-05:002015-12-28T19:54:36.805-05:00Your skepticism is well-placed, CJ. See "The ...Your skepticism is well-placed, CJ. See "The Halo Effect" by Phil Rozenweig.Philnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-3354828421092620752015-12-16T16:49:53.647-05:002015-12-16T16:49:53.647-05:00Anonymous writes in:
after reading McCoy's b...Anonymous writes in: <br /><br />after reading McCoy's blog post, I liked almost all of it a lot, but thought his section on buy-in was misguided, perhaps dangerously so. On the subject of disagreement, he goes so far as to say that staff officers need to not only drink the Kool-Aid, but to serve it. Isn't this how the military got into the Bay of Pigs? I know I've seen groupthink lead to stupid decisions in science.Chemjobberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-12238447159514289642015-12-16T12:40:26.036-05:002015-12-16T12:40:26.036-05:00I don't see the paradox. Seems a pretty clear ...I don't see the paradox. Seems a pretty clear pattern. You need to be optimistic but not have goals to survive. Opimistic with no goals - .survive (e.g. Stockdale). Optimistic with goals - not so much.<br /><br />The lesson here for me is that when things are completely out of your control, stay optimistic in the future but don't set yourself goals.@KayakPhiliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07708959305241645874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-42630526797184126212015-12-15T12:21:31.852-05:002015-12-15T12:21:31.852-05:00That was a prepared statement, delivered in respon...That was a prepared statement, delivered in response to the moderator's request for an opening statement. It looked like a really bad attempt at a rhetorical device. Kind of surprising, really: one would have expected a former president of the Naval War College to have a pretty polished presentation.<br /><br />At any rate, the sequence lives on over at YouTube.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-17177036404392315072015-12-15T10:30:29.441-05:002015-12-15T10:30:29.441-05:00Yep, the same one!Yep, the same one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-87810316290161147162015-12-14T11:06:59.829-05:002015-12-14T11:06:59.829-05:00CJ: Thanks for that...and I was trying to charact...CJ: Thanks for that...and I was trying to characterize my present situation in a similar way (Stockdale paradox). But, that does not tell you if there is going to be light at the end of tunnel!!! BTW, is it the same Stockdale who ran as VP for Ross Perot (1992). If he is the same individual he is the one who thundered "Who Am I and what am doing here?" to a question from a journalist during one of those debates! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-45934461813863940262015-12-14T08:38:23.232-05:002015-12-14T08:38:23.232-05:00Just optimistic enough to keep going, and not so o...Just optimistic enough to keep going, and not so optimistic as to be crushed by repeated failure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-7929250452222686412015-12-13T21:38:08.528-05:002015-12-13T21:38:08.528-05:00I reject that comparison. I reject that comparison. Chemjobberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-11225956586857003972015-12-13T20:20:11.299-05:002015-12-13T20:20:11.299-05:00This could also be advice from Joel Osteen. Can I...This could also be advice from Joel Osteen. Can I get an AMEN?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-36004007400078247672015-12-13T07:32:22.759-05:002015-12-13T07:32:22.759-05:00Pretty solid Life advice (having been to grad scho...Pretty solid Life advice (having been to grad school and now at Dupont)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-61914434670854418742015-12-13T04:00:31.777-05:002015-12-13T04:00:31.777-05:00Yeah, the Stockdale Paradox is what (some of) my f...Yeah, the Stockdale Paradox is what (some of) my former advisers tell me, but just not the search committees at their own universities. I feel like an alien who has landed from another planet, but for whom the domestic welcoming committee is nevertheless composed of tribesmen who have little inkling of life outside of the Ivory Tower.Generic Chemisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17368825556427261716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-45675425864639332522015-12-12T21:37:40.757-05:002015-12-12T21:37:40.757-05:00POW ≠ hero - D. TrumpPOW ≠ hero - D. Trumpqvxbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-4036255371943597862015-12-12T16:41:38.961-05:002015-12-12T16:41:38.961-05:00Pretty solid Grad School advice...Pretty solid Grad School advice...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-2249829876777107712015-12-12T15:46:16.073-05:002015-12-12T15:46:16.073-05:00Vaguely reminiscent of hope for the best, prepare ...Vaguely reminiscent of hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com