Author: David Wright

This guy is exposed!

not that he really makes a secret of it.

One of the most consistently funny events of the year.

My favourite? At the moment, I’m into Sequoyiah Stonecipher. But maybe I’ll eventually prefer Gregor Schwinghammer Jr. or maybe Pencilman Jeffries…

We shall see.

It has a 0.000008% conversion rate. But they make millions.

fascinating

nom nom nom nom

The immensely interesting NYtimes unemployment graphic that breaks the unemployment rate down by education, age and race. I’d prefer to see average household earnings over previous 5 years instead of race, but this thing is cool.

I remember the first news on this guy when we was caught in 2007.

here is the profile we were all waiting for.

Feel better, now?

I was always hoping he would.

The logic goes like this, I think:  persistence is the major constraint on advancement in competitive organizations, not productivity. Crazy actors are persistent, but this has nothing to do with whether they are productive or not.

Promote the weak because you can’t afford to lose the productive to management tasks.

My boss always says that there are three stages to the career of a reinsurance broker: placement (where you can complete a deal already in the pipeline), production (new pipeline) and management (where you can spawn pipelines in others).

My response to this is that though the skills are definitely somewhat uncorrelated, but the real problem is that the roles are cumulative, not a progression.

I’m very jealous of his ability to read (and retain!) so much information each day.

I’ve read about Tyler’s ability to read things quickly before, but I suppose I’d never been able to grasp the quantity. Note that he has always been clear that he doesn’t always (maybe rarely?) actually finish a book.

I wonder if his ability to read so quickly is akin to “The Hacker” in this post? (ie being able to look at a page quickly and only “listen” when he casts his eyes over the important bits).

Booze Hurts Grades.