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Stop Using Data Like a Drunk Uses a Lamppost
Quantitative info is for illumination, not support. To succeed in the future, companies must account for uncertainty and learn not to trust lazy predictions.
This challenge from Richard Huntington to qual has particularly resonated…
We enjoyed the @AQRUK event last week and this challenge from Richard Huntington to qual has particularly resonated. https://t.co/IanTv5OdZe We enjoyed the @AQRUK event last week and this challenge from Richard Huntington to qual has particularly resonated. http://pic.twitter.com/IanTv5OdZe — Watch Me Think (@WatchMeThink) November 8, 2016 via Twitter https://twitter.com/WatchMeThink November 08, 2016 at 03:30PM
The next hot job in Silicon Valley is for poets
SAN FRANCISCO — Until recently, Robyn Ewing was a writer in Hollywood, developing TV scripts and pitching pilots to film studios…. Read full article at the publisher’s site: http://ift.tt/1oGQ3aM
Cognitive bias cheat sheet
I’ve spent many years referencing Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases whenever I have a hunch that a certain type of thinking is an official bias but I can’t recall the name or details. It’s been an invaluable reference for helping me identify the hidden flaws in my own thinking…… Read the full article on the …
The next AI is no AI
Artificial Intelligence is starting to turn invisible from the outside in — and vice versa. The exact effects and workings of AI technologies are becoming more challenging to perceive and comprehend for humans. Even the experts themselves don’t always fully understand how an AI system operates…. Read full article at the publisher’s site: http://ift.tt/29LBOOU
Say goodbye to “hello”
I was in a meeting the other day when someone asked an Inuk lady what was Inuktitut for “Hello”. She said there wasn’t one.
Start up culture and not working with assholes
We listed things we felt we would have to be able to say about our company, if we built it, that would justify us all quitting our “proper” jobs to have a crack at this new venture.
“I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll tear your packaging open.”
There is a well-known but paradoxically little recognised exercise routine being played out almost daily in kitchens across the planet.
Information + insight = intelligence
Getting intelligence (information + insight and/or analysis) is what is needed for the tactics and objectives in your strategic plans.
What does it mean to be “Australian Made”
When it comes to what it means to be Australian there is nothing more cliché than this well known greeting, but just what does it mean to be Australian Made on the supermarket shelf in today’s current climate?