For my Friend Jude

So last week on NPR radio I hear a really cool science story. It was about the leaves falling in fall. Now in my life I hear a lot of cool stuff, the problem is I never know what the information is good for. I have ideas all the time, but it takes someone else to put them into effect or to find value in them. Now to be fair, I am aware of this and thus share my thoughts with the right people. Like my friend Jude, who listens to me ramble and then goes and turns the idea into economic success.

So the story on the leaves was in fall the leaves "fall off". However scientifically they don't fall off, instead they are pushed off. Right where the tree meets the leaf there is a connection and if you look at it now you will see it being worn down. The tree will sever this link and the wind or any other movement will knock the leaf off. The leaves provide food for the tree. So why would the tree push them off? Because as the weather changes the leaves are providing less food. The tree realizes if I keep these leaves here during winter, they may provide some food when the weather is warm, but they will die and then I will have dead workers. If I lose them now I will be lean thru the winter, will have to do with less food, but when the weather turns to spring I will have the capacity for new leaves and new providers for food. Thus I can only thrive in the spring if I dump them now.

The Jude factor:
So when times are tough, it may be better to lose the producing workers who are still producing but at a lower rate, in order to survive long enough for the spring when you are able to get new workers producing more in a better climate. You cannot carry leaves thru the winter because they will die and take up space away from new leaves for the spring.

It took me a few days, but I finally knew these facts were somehow relevant to business. We are in the fall and to get to spring we need to help our leaves fall.