Learning to live with the unpredictable

With two major construction projects going on simultaneously at Krasnow, I’m getting used to the notion of at least one anomaly per day. Yesterday we were dealing with fire code issues, today we are dealing with conduit long buried under the concrete slab of the current Krasnow facility. In a sense, both of these two projects are complex adaptive systems that are intersecting one another in both space and time. The results are going to be often unpredictable and riding heard on the process so that we get a positive item is going to be my main priority for the next bit.

This is a great case of what we learned about in literature class during freshman year: pathetic fallacy. Except in this case it’s the construction which is reflecting the underlying intellectual pursuits of our scientists.

Jim