WARNING: This blog contains ideas, thoughts, and opinions that will be unpopular. The positions I support on this blog may change due to new information, changing circumstances, or simply because I sobered up. I will at all times strive to be professional if you are unwilling to do the same please leave, however, if you disagree and can do so with facts PLEASE comment PLEASE challenge my opinions. As to the name, many of my ideas are formed after at least one good whiskey on the rocks and a cigar...there is something to be said for our predecessors back rooms filled with cigar smoke.
My goal with this is to apply basic systems engineering principles and apply them to primarily social science topics.
The opinions I express here are not representations of my current employer nor do they represent any positions of previous employers- these are my opinions and mine alone.
who am i and why am i doing this?
Ill start with the second question- my motivation for writing this is simple- politics as usual is NOT working. We seem unwilling to have a conversation with each other to try and find solutions. We are more interested in yelling at one another, at calling each other names, and participating in circuses than in solving problems. It is my hope that the ideas I present here help to restart a civil conversation in which we can feel free to either disagree about an entire solution or just a point of it without feeling the need to say "if you disagree with my position we cant be friends."
Now that the simple question is out of the way- I am me. There is really no other way to say it. I spent almost ten years in the military or government before moving onto manufacturing. I currently hold a BS degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point (USMA) in Systems Management and a second BS degree in Defense and Strategic Studies also from USMA. When I am not working I enjoy carrying heavy things on my back up steep mountains, or trying to educate myself by going back to school to pursue a dual masters in Systems Engineering and a MBA.
Now that the simple question is out of the way- I am me. There is really no other way to say it. I spent almost ten years in the military or government before moving onto manufacturing. I currently hold a BS degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point (USMA) in Systems Management and a second BS degree in Defense and Strategic Studies also from USMA. When I am not working I enjoy carrying heavy things on my back up steep mountains, or trying to educate myself by going back to school to pursue a dual masters in Systems Engineering and a MBA.