Friday, September 12, 2003
At work we have recently completed the annual trama of performance reviews and transitioned into the annual trama of goal setting. One thing that impresses me about my managment is that they actually sent down a list that you might call “what the firm wants.” Meanwhile I’ve been carrying around a scrap of paper – [...]
Friday, September 12, 2003
Brad’s mystery is solved, and by the entertainment industry no less.
Friday, September 12, 2003
I have an affection for natural disasters. They tend to bring out the best in people. They expose the power-law nature of natural systems and in doing so remind people that their models based on more regular distributions are wrong. They make people more careful and they reenforce the value of community, goverment, and the [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2003
Reading elsewhere “We are at war.” … “When the Islamist butchers are dead, it will be over.” I am reminded that “we” do not know who we are at war with. There are plenty of individuals and groups confident that they know, but there is no consensus. Possibly we are war with rich angry young [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2003
There are plenty of buisness models that depend on an intermediary, a middleman, to solve some problem that the parties on either side have trouble solving on their own. Real Estate agents are a classic example they help buyers and sellers find each other. Before wealth and modern life started making it safe to teardown [...]
Monday, September 8, 2003
The Internet makes car shopping a lot more interesting than it used to be. I like skimming the boards at townhall.edmunds.com though it’s hard to know how statistically valid the impressions one gets there might be. So, I was curious about the used car market and with a little poking around was able to find [...]
Monday, September 8, 2003
“Trying to understand the Wiki technology is like
Sunday, September 7, 2003
Fun summary from David Brake outlines from tools for tracking google queries and sales ranking at various bookstores. Ironically one of these, JungleScan, which shows winners and losers in sales rank on a given day, reports amoung it’s loosers Tipping Point. Down 65%. Amazon sales rank is, apparently, quite volitile.
Sunday, September 7, 2003
I’ve been reading about discriminatory pricing and here’s something I’d not realized before about product bundling. In pricing problems the puzzle the seller is trying to solve is to get the maximum revenue while remaining both reasonably ethical and avoiding an unreasonable amount of negotiation. A key part of this puzzle is trying to guess [...]
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