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The Infinite Game of Flood Risk Management
I was inspired by James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games, and I see a valuable cross section with the field of flood risk management. “There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning.” To be a flood management…
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Calls Today
This was an interesting morning, doing one of my recurring practices of calling and talking with those in the practice with mutual interests. I spoke to Neomi, at a firm out of Switzerland, seeking to network and having a focus to tie their floodwater modeling algorithms to the mission. And, I spoke with my retired…
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The Dream
Last night, much of this work launching TotalFRM was buzzing around my head, and this contributed to a dream I had. In the dream, the USACE Kansas City District, where I worked for 21 years, decided to get a new office. The new location had a creek that they decided could be put underground. Vividly,…
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