I have to multi-task. I am the bottle-neck for too many problems already and my team needs input from me before they can continue in many areas. But I know it doesn’t make me efficient. Switching between tasks takes time. You forget important details, and struggle to get the depth of understanding and focus required…
Seems white isn’t actually that much lighter than yellow, but that hasn’t stopped it being used for school bus roofs in the US for 20 years. The power of sticky ideas, even if they’re bad, is incredible. This isn’t the first time car colours have been analysed with some science.
Turns out Australian banks are concerned that their customers have greater confidence and trust in Google and PayPal than in their own institutions. It wasn’t that long ago that financial institutions needed marble-clad offices and multi-decade histories to show that they were serious and were financially stable and could be trusted. Now the organisations that…
This is not the best way to start serious analysis of models versus markets in the prediction space, but given that I’m writing an exam tomorrow I thought I should put the links out there now. Â I’ll address this topic again in the future. Steven Levitt (of Freakonomics fame) discussed an old paper of his…
I haven’t yet found a WordPress plugin that creates really great word / tag clouds. I created this one from my post Clear, Simple and Wrong using Wordle. I think it sums up the post well.
Recently had a discussion around whether government should intervene to influence the exchange rate. Now, I don’t have fully thought-through views on if and when and how and by how much this should be done. Still thinking it through (and having to reconsider many things about currencies, interest rates, inflation, open market purchases, sovereign wealth…
In broad terms, we are all mostly ignorant. Worse than ignorant, we have notions and views, firmly held, that are entirely incorrect. We only complain about what we don’t like Nobody complains to their boss that they are overpaid. Nobody complains that their pension or social security increases were above inflation last year. We don’t…
photo credit: euthman You get what you pay for? You get what you pay for even if it’s for the fire department to put our the fire in your burning house. At least that’s the way the conservative, Republican-saturated fiefdom of Tennessee County have it. Firefighters watched a house burn down rather than put it…
