We all have our preferred way of framing up problems and their solutions. If your a math guy you build a mathy model. If your an Engineer you throw some tech at it. If your a political actor your try to shift the Overton Window. If your a capitalist manager your likely to lean [...]
Mike Konczal has an interesting posting about what becomes of people who are unemployed. I liked most diplomatic observation: “from what I’m seeing the whole idea of dropping out of the labor force from unemployment is completely under-theorized in the literature.” I naive model might assign each person into one of three categories: employed, unemployed, [...]
If your interested in Network Effects this article from the San Francisco chronicle is worth reading. It outline a few ways you might be able to tackle an incumbent firm that owns the natural monopoly of a strong network effect. First they might screw up – which we call “bad execution.” This is the [...]
though tacky, this was fun… … (declare (special indent)) (let ((indent (if (boundp ‘indent) (+ indent 2) 0))) (declare (special indent)) …
This is an amazingly thought provoking technique for collecting and presenting survey results. It is just better. Imagine, if you will, how the usual newspaper headline would summarize this data. You could use this to survey employee moral. Marketing people could use this to survey customers. I find the comments very interesting; again, imagine the damage [...]
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Pretty amazing chart this: It shows the probability of a prisoner being granted parole depending on when during the day his parole hearing takes place. The dotted lines indicate when the parole board to a break for food. Ok, now: Schedule your next meeting.
Steve Waldman raises a point I’ve thought about in the context of peak oil. Say you know only a few things: Your king. You have oil reserves. The price of oil is rising fast due to peak oil, say 12% a year. From a financial perspective you have a large asset that is returning [...]
Squirrel this away. It’s a big time saver. Next time your minions rise up you can rework this template: “The younger Mr. Qaddafi … blamed … offered … potentially … a new flag, national anthem … threaten …” — nytimes Your welcome.
Here’s the pull quote: “young teenagers ran about 40 percent more yellow lights and had 60 percent more crashes when they knew their friends were watching” from an amusing article about an experiment into the effect of friends on behavior. The experiment involved two groups – teens and adults – in two settings – alone [...]
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