Hi Harold:

I have been on this journey from employee to whatever the hell it is I'm heading toward for only a few months, so I'm still learning a lot about how to traverse these spaces. One of the first lessons I learned, which related to blogging, was from Euan Semple. I was reading his explanation of why he called his blog "The Obvious?" and said, "I called it [that] when I wrote anonymously and chose the name to reflect the fact I have to overcome my inhibitions about stating the obvious! My lesson from Euan was that not everyone sees things the same way, and I have a unique viewpoint that may (or may not) be of value to others.

Now, though I've connected with you through Twitter and other venues, your message is finally impinging on my thick skull and I'm hearing what you have to say. What I'm getting at here is the way you use your blog. For the last two decades and more I have worked at a place where it was far more important to keep one's mouth shut than to risk saying the wrong thing, especially if - like me - you weren't an Engineer/Rocket Scientist. The thought of using a blog to make sense of my observations was anathema at Rocketdyne, but it seems like a no-brainer otherwise . . . now that you've pointed it out to me, that is.

Although I've been doing KM in the aerospace industry for over a decade, and recently received a Masters degree in it from Cal State Northridge, there are times (and this is one of them) when I feel like a complete neophyte. Thanks for sharing. I'm most appreciative for having connected with folks like you and Luis.