2. have new ideas and skills to do a better job. The road to wisdom?Well, its plain This is true but I would say it reverses the order (N to N+1? Because some development may not be appropriate to the time. However, technology affects ones thinking capacity and development of ideas. Today, I am not really a proponent of type-curve matching per se, but rather with using the derivative response to recognize flow regimes.13 We now can use data processing originally designed for convolution or deconvolution of downhole pressure and flow-rate data for analysis of production data.14 This approach is particularly effective in wells with permanent gauges. Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It, by Scott Kupor 2019 (a16z), excerpts, In a strange way, sometimes familiarity can breed contemptand conversely, the distance from the problem that comes from having a completely different professional background might actually make one a better founder. Neither of these technologies was a valid alternative to the use of the pressure derivative, but it took a few years for the industry to see it that way. Firefox: we are going to build a better web browser, even though 90% of the worlds computers already have a free one built in. I think they were just early. Reflection gives meaning to experience; it turns experience into practice, links past and present experiences, and prepares the individual for future practice. In this case, the flowmeter acquires data while the well is flowing, which is what it is intended to do. Yet, how useful would this knowledge be, really? Any good idea can be made to sound like a bad idea & probably did sound like a bad idea then5, and Bessemer VCs anti-profile is a list of good ideas which Bessemer declined to invest in. By important I mean guaranteed a Nobel Prize and any sum of money you want to mention. Even now, after weve been building them for 100 years, its very difficult to understand just why a bicycle worksits even difficult to formulate it as a mathematical problem. For example, even if online pizza delivery has failed every time its tried, it still seems like a good idea that people will want to order pizza online via their smartphones, so one could try to do a pizza startup 2.5 years later, then 5 years later, then 10 years, then 20 years, or perhaps every time computer costs drop an order of magnitude, or perhaps every time the relevant market doubles in size? 2. The possibility of broadcasting radio waves across the Atlantic was convincingly excluded by theoretical analysis. (How do you force all relevant companies to sell tradable stakes? I loved modeling flow through porous media, and I thought modeling three phases instead of just water would be even more interesting. Facebook is the biggest archive of photographs there has ever been, with truly colossal storage requirements; could it have succeeded in the 1990s? This sounds a good deal like individuals pursuing standard careers & occasionally exploring unusual strategies like a startup; they will occasionally explore strategies which have performed badly (ie. The two failure modes of a MAB algorithm are investing too much in one option early on, and then investing too little later on; in the former, you inefficiently buy too much information on an option which happened to have good luck but is not guaranteed to be the best at the expense of others (which may in fact be the best), while in the latter, you buy too little & risk permanently making a mistake by prematurely rejecting an apparently-bad option (which simply had bad luck early on). Actually, our son played a role in all this as well, and I look forward to seeing Alex make his mark in the energy industry before long. As this happens, the way of life is eased, for example, the capability of communicating with people in far locations within a short time. : Pressure Build-Up in Wells,. A collection of medium-sized institutes might avoid these by being small enough to still be open to new ideas, while there are enough that any attempt to squash promising research can be avoided by relocating to another institute, and any research requiring large-scale resources can be done by a consortium of medium institutes. In this edition, we are reminded that rigorous technical work is one of the pillars of our industry. "Time is an illusion, timing is an art.". Richard Hamming describes ripe time as finally enabling attacks on consequential problems22 Edward Boyden describes the development of both optogenetics & expansion microscopy as failure rebooting, revisiting (failed) past ideas which may now be workable in the light of progress in other areas23. reflection-in-action. Critical problems are the research questions, cast in terms of the concrete particulars of currently available knowledge and technique and of specific exemplars or models (eg. Start small. . And the next Mark Zuckerberg wont create a social network. Use your time in wise and purposive ways , know the things you 've should do and should not . (And what about Douglas Engelbart, or Alan Kay/Xerox PARC, who explicitly aimed to skate towards where the puck would be?) Certainty is irrelevant, you still have problems making use of this knowledge. In hindsight the things that worked look like good ideas and the ones that failed look stupid, but sadly its not that obvious at the time. Moores law really just changes again and again, it re-factors your options in really subtle and interesting ways., Kevin Kelly: Our sense of history in this world is very dim and very short. My timing on the technical front could not have been better. In the case of chemotherapy, these things could be effected only by the medical researcher and the chemist, each working on his own domain, and cooperatively. and simple to express: It is not like the horse or the bull, the wolf or the deer. He saw a need for friendly and mutually supportive relations between industrial research and development organizations, academic institutions, and clinicians. Right then, I made an incredible blunder. If your instructor demands a word count outside of this range, meet your instructor's requirements. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. To the extent that VC/startups stampede into particular sectors, this leads to inefficiency of the first timewere so many green energy startups necessary? After that, an explosion of new models presented on log-log coordinates appeared in the mushrooming well-test literature. Such targeted research efforts can have disproprotionate payoffs and lead to sudden breakthroughs as the enemys frontline collapses. (This is assisted by the fact that patents no longer require even the pretense of a working model.) Brand summarized the projects he saw there and Lab members extrapolations into the future which guided their projects, and added his own forecasting thoughts. Reflection of light occurs when waves hit a surface that, instead of absorbing radiation, bounce the waves away from the surface. ChristineEhlig-Economides, through her eventful career, has been there when many breakthroughs were made that have created a step change in our understanding of the mechanisms that govern the recovery of hydrocarbons. A more practical approach is to embrace uncertainty, taking a reinforcement learning perspective. Dont ask Fisher, hes hardly going to say, oh yeah, all the money was completely wasted, we were trying to do it too soon; our bad. One reason is that our form of energy, oil, is misunderstood by most people, including many of us in the petroleum industry. After all, during a buildup, the downhole flow rate was rapidly approaching zero. The UK Biobank has produced an amazing amount of research for a large group, but is the exception that proves the rule: their openness to researchers is (sadly) extraordinarily unusual. Businesses wont be able to get enough of it; employees will love to hate it., English Wikipedia: Well compete with Microsoft Encarta, the Encyclopedia Britannica, H2G2, Everything2, Interpedia, The Distributed Encyclopedia Project (TDEP), TheInfo, & GNUs GNE by letting literally anyone edit some draft articles for Nupedia.9, Zoom: Skype has a literally 15-year headstart, but we can do so much better, and maybe something will make everyone suddenly want to video-conference after all this time avoiding it as much as possible?. Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines which can be operated without detailed knowledge of their workings. The progress in technology has good impacts as well as bad implications to people. We won't always understand God's timing, so we have to trust that it is best for us. Learning can occur in many forms and situations. They grew fast, roflstomped other social networks, stayed private, and post-IPO, public investors have not profited all that much compared to even late investors. Though not venture backed, Southwest Airlines was cofounded in 1967 by Herb Kelleher and of course has gone on to become a very successful business. (One wonders if a 20-year forecast might be driven by anthropics: in an exponentially-growing field, most researchers will be present in the final generation, and so a priori one could predict accurately that it will be 20 years to AI. And in 2019, with 2012 a distant memory, well, one could say something similar, just with larger numbers. So for the most part, traders clone popular strategies, but with certain probabilities, theyll randomly explore rarer apparently-unsuccessful strategies. So, what Babbage should have aimed for is not making a practical thinking machine which could churn out naval tables, but demonstrating that a programmable thinking machine is possible & useful, and currently limited by the slowness & size of its mechanical logicso that transistors could be pursued with higher priority by governments, and programmable computers could be created with transistors as soon as possible, instead of the historical course of a meandering piecemeal development where Babbages work was forgotten & then repeatedly reinvented with delays (eg. She recently became Director of the Center for Energy, Environment, and Transportation Innovation in the Crisman Inst. Vacuum tube technology was first exploited for high-speed digital computing in Britain during the Second World War [16]. I basically think all the ideas of the 90s that everybody had about how this stuff was going to work, I think they were all right, they were all correct. It is now appreciated that of the factors needed to make the stored-program digital computer a technological reality only one was missing: the means to construct fast switching elements. The origins of many startups are highly idiosyncratic & chancy; eg. Is there a sustainable development reason to reduce our consumption? IBM and Apple both went nearly bankrupt at points, and Microsofts stock has been flat since 1999 or whenever (translating to huge real losses and opportunity costs to long-term holders of it). A kind of definition of Value of Information: If you do not work on an important problem, its unlikely youll do important work. It is not always as easy a task as it sounds. The most informative plan is the most polarizing one.29. Now BP is Beyond Petroleum. Her professional service includes Executive Editor of SPEs Formation Evaluation journal, 199596; SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 199798; and numerous posts as chairperson or member of SPE committees and task forces. Reflection can be valuable when the workgroup uses it to learn more about impact and to catalyze action toward a destination. In the same vein, the founder has to be able to attract customers to buy the product, partners to help distribute the product, and, eventually, other VCs to fund the business beyond the initial round of financing. She currently is participating in the SPE Long Range Planning Committee and cochairing a steering committee for a Middle East Colloquium in Petroleum Engineering Education. Come and give me a word about those days. And he himself gave the answer for them: Every day is a good day.. For if they were obviously good ideas, they would never produce venture returns. : Theoretical Analysis of Pressure Phenomena Associated With the Wireline Formation Tester,. Perhaps had Kelleher known intimately of all the challenges of entering the airline business, he would have run screaming from the challenge versus deciding to take on the full set of risks. ): you will not be the next Bill Gates, because Bill Gates was not the first and only Bill Gates, he was, pace Stiglers Law, the last Bill Gates13; many people made huge fortunes off OSes, both before and after Gatesyou may have forgotten Wang, but hopefully you remember Steve Jobs (before, Mac) and Steve Jobs (after, NeXT). The average of multiple plans is often worse than any single plan. A further application of criterion 4 arises if theoretical infeasibility is demonstratedBut it is well to look on such negative proofs with caution. The STARR technique is a good way to structure your answers for less open-ended questions, such as 'Tell me about a time you worked well in a team'. If people dont want to go to the ball game, how are you going to stop them? as Yogi Berra asked.) What made them a success was that they happened to give the pinata a whack at the exact moment where some S-curves or events hit the right point. Since then, Mach continued this work and was instrumental in Yukos achievements to increase production by 20% per year for several consecutive years without drilling new wells. At one time I considered writing a study of Kafkas precursors. Without technology eradicated disease such as smallpox or the Spanish flu could have been still rampant since the 1800's. Getting a simple cold could be life threatening without technology. Ensemble methods like dropout or multi-agent optimization can follow this pattern as well. Its possible for entrepreneurs to create something with huge impact. Within industrial research organizationsand, implicitly, within academic onesHrlein called for special institutional arrangements to encourage appropriate interactions between chemistry and biomedicine. If you think about the spectrum of things in which you could invest, there are good ideas that look like good ideas. In what I would call, in a nod to Thiels definite vs indefinite optimism, definitely-maybe optimism. With so many disruptive technologies on the horizon, timing your move into each can make the difference between getting ahead of the competition and falling irreparably behind. why should a podcasting company, Odeo, have led to Twitter? (The most successful people I know believe in themselves almost to the point of delusion). And you know what? Reflection-in-action is a vital skill for coaches Verify whether or not your instructor specified a word count for the paper instead of merely following this average. Maybe computers are faster. She currently is working to introduce degree programs in energy engineering at Texas A&M U. I was expecting smartphones to take off in mid 2004 and was disappointed over and over again. [8: European AISB Newsletter, no. Balakrishnan and B V Sreekantan. The challenge had always been to come up with a closed-form solution that related to time. Put simply, it's not the time lead or the technology; it's what a firm does with its time lead and . Ironically, I was still at the U. of AlaskaFairbanks when my graduate student, Barney Wagner,7 was working on type curves for fractured wells in elongated reservoir geometries. Technology is a subject that you will encounter in the school process starting from elementary till college. Someone could have built the Rift in mid-to-late 2007 for a few thousand dollars, and they could have built it in mid-2008 for about $673.5$500.02008. January 19, 2020. VCs will literally escape through the bathroom to avoid talking to us., Stripe: Banks & online payment processors like PayPal are heavily-regulated inefficient monopolies which really suck; well make friends with some banks and run a payment processor which doesnt suck. After all, nonobvious ideas that could in fact become big businesses are by definition nonobvious. You dont want to publish a paper that says, After the study, we came to the conclusion that VR is useless right now and that we should just not have a job for 20 years. There were a few people that basically came to that conclusion. Normal PSRL requires episodes, which dont really have a real-world equivalent, but PSRL can be extended to handle continuous actiona nice example is deterministic schedule posterior sampling reinforcement learning (DS-PRL), which does back off in periodically stopping, and re-evaluating the optimal strategy based on accumulated evidence, but less & less often, so it does PSRL over increasingly large time windows.. Look after a pet. Do you have the capital to start a VC fund of your own, and throw multi-million-dollar investments at every social media until finally in 2010 you knew for sure that Facebook was the winning ticket and could cash out in the IPO? If you are copying these guys, you arent learning from them.. Or look at computers: imagine an early adopter of an Apple computer saying everyone will use computers eventually! Yes, but not for another few decades, and in the long run, we are all dead. Google: we are building the worlds 20th search engine at a time when most of the others have been abandoned as being commoditized money losers. The fact is that each writer creates his precursors. All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. In Schlumberger at that time, there were two alternative technologies competing with pressure-transient-test analysis using the derivative. The tempting deals are the bad ideas that look like good ideas, yet they ultimately contain some hidden flaw that reveals their true badness. But it is by no means obvious that it was unripe for Babbages research and development effort, if only it had been conceived in terms of a more severely delimited objective: the construction of a working model. A lot more is being invented with time. Theyd been known for decades. More importantly, he showed me what differentiated quartz-gauge data looked like. There are some benefits and advantages associated or linked to having a day that is without the use of any technology. And, incidentally, offering an example of why stock markets are fine with paying executives so much: a good executive can createor destroythe entire company. Consider the ill-fated eToys.com or Pets.com: was the investor right to believe that Americans would spend a ton of money online such as for buying toys or dogfood? So many models could be easily derived when the governing equations were transformed into Laplace space. Its a universal rule. He regarded the chemical attack on disease as a many-fronted battle in which there was a generally advancing line but also many points at which advance was slow or arrested. In addition, reflection is about stepping back to remind ourselves of the group's long-term aspirations and the role of near-term actions in accomplishing it.. . 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