I often puzzle about why I do this. It’s pretty time consuming, even with only my meager output to show for it. Continue reading Traffic Meta
In a Bid For Attention, Lifelong Quitter Takes Up Life of Leisure
McLaughlin had never golfed before he conceived The Dan Plan: to put in 10,000 hours of practice and become good enough to play [golf] professionally.
The article goes on to point out a few facts about Dan: Continue reading In a Bid For Attention, Lifelong Quitter Takes Up Life of Leisure
Ancestor Worship
Flowing data points out this neat chart from Very Small Array
First conclusion: movies are getting worse! Damn Hollywood and its crass blockbusterism!
Review: Consultant White Paper
A friend of mine passed on this consulting report from Monitor Group, so I thought I’d review it.
Signalling Hustle
Katya Grace, via Robin Hanson, with a puzzler, in respect of why teenagers and their parents appear to under-invest in researching jobs to inform the choice of education:
I’ve been meaning to remark how surprised I am that not even the students themselves seem interested in researching such things, or to even think of it.
Robin demurs and goes meta, which is probably a more interesting discussion. But I’ll try picking up the gauntlet, anyway. Continue reading Signalling Hustle
Easy Now, Tough Guy
In University I worked out in a renovated strip club. Seriously. Continue reading Easy Now, Tough Guy
In Which I Rant
“We don’t make anything anymore”
Is there a more tiresome economic whinge? Continue reading In Which I Rant
Outsourcing Is Complicated
Michael Mandel has convinced me that we don’t measure the contribution of outsourcing properly and, if we did, GDP in outsourcing-heavy industries would be revised downward.
The problem is that our tools really struggle dealing with rapidly falling prices for intermediate outputs.
Ok, let me see if I understand this. Continue reading Outsourcing Is Complicated
Coordinating Data
Here is Celent writing about data and coordination, which I think boils down to the idea that IT is gradually becoming a core skill of other business functinos.
I think that’s right. I also think that IT progress can be categorized. Continue reading Coordinating Data
In Which I Am Sucked Into The Abyss
Paul Krugman suggests a purely state-run network of hospitals and clinics:
The public option would be required to spend significantly less per risk-adjusted recipient than traditional Medicare. And if it couldn’t provide care that seniors wanted given that restricted budget, it would have no takers and would close.
There are two elements to the strategy: first, that the government run a network of care facilities; and, second, that they be asked to execute the very specific strategy of offering a low-cost alternative. Continue reading In Which I Am Sucked Into The Abyss
Not Unreasonable 