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The Army lieutenant who took the Opana radar call therefore had no expectation of danger. He looked for a routine explanation of the unusual report and found it. The Army paid radio station KGMB in Honolulu to play Hawaiian music throughout the night whenever it ferried aircraft to the Islands, giving its navigators a signal to seek. The lieutenant had heard such music on the radio that morning on his way to the information center. He decided that the radar must be picking up a flight of B-17’s. The heading plotted at Opanu was the usual direction of approach from California. “Well, don’t worry about it,” the lieutenant told the radar men.1532

Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

Is your current success the result of highly focused goals or a side optimization? Curious whether your current path was always the goal or became the goal. 1 11 Paul Graham @paulg · Jun 6 It's the result of alternating periods of not having goals, and then having very specific ones. Sort of like a soccer player during a game. Sometimes you're just drifting in the right general direction, other times you're going all out for a 50-50 ball.

(21) Paul Graham on Twitter: "One Thing I've Learned as an Adult That I Didn't Realize as a Kid Is How Precisely You Have to Aim at a Goal to Hit It. If You Choose to Optimize Something Even Slightly Off to the Side, You'll Sometimes Achieve Almost Nothing Toward Your Intended Goal." / Twitter

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Once a person realizes that he or she can be a professional in one domain and a beginner in another, without undue offense to the ego, that individual is at a great advantage.

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