I know the type well. He seldom achieves the goals he pursues.
OTH, sometimes he wins. He is a hacker at heart and dabbles in areas=20
without appropriate training. He wins due to his personal motivation and=20
high energy level. If you look at some of the world's most successful=20
people their objectives were jokes to the learned experts. Edison, Ford,=20
the Wright Brothers are a few. When I run across someone who is chasing=20
shadows I offer my knowledge and experience if they will listen but I=20
don't discourage their questioning the status quo. IBM built and sold a=20
copier industry using principles that Xerox felt were not worth a patent.
IBM ridiculed the PC market until they just could not ignore it. The=20
American automotive industry had to have disk brakes, seat belts and=20
fuel injection forced upon them.
This fellow just wants a chance to prove the calculations are too=20
conservative.

I spend a lot of time working on junk or adapting something to a new=20
use.  I hear the question a lot: "Why do you waste your time on that?=20
New ones are cheap!"  Usually the real answer is that I am using the=20
opportunity to learn something or satisfy my curiosity.

On 2/13/2014 8:31 AM, RussellMc wrote:
> He's an outlier.

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"Kindness is the language the blind can see and the
deaf can hear." - Mark Twain


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