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I recently had the strangest set of conversations. A friend of a friend (yes, really) connected me with a guy whom he thought might be Stratum 7. At 41. He was passing through my neck of the woods (at least while working during the week -- I work away from home): would I want to meet up with him closer to the airport? Sure, I said. This could be interesting.
He and I talked beforehand. I ran the usual interview process just to get my bearings. Wow. I mean, I can't be sure, but I'm pretty sure. It seemed clearly to be a set of Stratum Five "named" big ideas that were strung together in a series, where this movement led to that movement which brought about this, which led to what we have now. So this is how it moved.
He'd been assessed before, he said, and it's what led to his current employment situation abroad as a contractor in "a difficult country". The company had him assessed and upon finding out what the consultant thought, had him promptly dismissed on this or that. But it was, according to him, more or less because they were smart enough to know that they were never going to be successful if they kept him around.
"You can try as hard as you want to to keep your head down and not be noticed," he said, "but it sometimes they get a clue."
I was intrigued enough to say, sure, let's meet for dinner over at Giordano's: I'll pick you up at the motel.
I think that I (again) underestimated the artist I interviewed. Now that I have a chance to actually review the tapes, she was clearly giving me Stratum 3 (serial) and I think I'm hearing Stratum 4 (parallel) which means that the initial "Their biggest problem is ______" may have actually been naming the process. I'm saying "NO" to that idea unless the actual coding of the interview shows clear strong evidence.
Although that would explain a whole lot.
Since J once showed me the page where the girl on the motorcycle went through Chernobyl's restricted area (his comment: that's real Russian on the walls), I thought it interesting that people are wondering what the animal life in Chernobyl is like.
The evidence seems to side with the "it's deadly" side. Certain populations would be able to survive, surely, and over time those genetic strands that could live with the radiation would find it a pretty good place to be. Rats will probably do well, of course. And cockroaches. Others will find it tougher on their survival rates.