Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. -John Dewey I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over…
> This is an old post, that I somehow didn’t publish. You thought you weren’t interested in today’s news? Try three weeks ago! In today’ snews cycle, it’s ancient! It’s so retro, it’s back in style! Nerds:Jimmy Fallon is a nerd, he used his show to make a random guy a twitter celebrity Stringing together…
>AIG bailout = 178 billion AIG bonuses = 165 million As xkcd points out, there is a big difference between a million and a billion. Many others have weighed in on the same point, the bonuses are only a minute fraction of what AIG got in bailout money. Others, Obama included, have pointed out that…
>After the latest Jon Stewart beat down of a media lowlife (in this case, an entire channel, CNBC, as represented by Jim Cramer and Rick Santelli) for providing entertainment and calling it news, a similar script is playing out that did when he went on Crossfire to tell Carlson and Begala “You are hurting America”…
> Ok, so, I am trying to post something every week now. We’ll see how long that lasts. This week, a collection of thoughts and links on our financial crisis, with a psychological approach. For beginners, or people interested in seeing a quick visual way of looking at how things went down, take a look…
>Lately I have been obsessed with the impending death of newspapers. While I don’t sit down every day and read a newspaper, I just can’t imagine life without the New York Times (here is a scenario by which the NYT goes bankrupt by May, from the Atlantic Monthly). And I have some nostalgia for newsprint,…
> I’ve got something for you…Watch this video, then bookmark this site, I am sure you will be backhttp://cleanupdata.com/#video It is called Magic/Replace, and it is basically a smart spreadsheet program that knows what you want to do with your spreadsheet. You just have to watch the video.
> How might you know whether there is a flu outbreak coming to your state? If you only knew how many people are getting flu medication… But, a reasonable proxy is tracking how many people use the Google for flu remedies. I think this is a great use of google data, and not at all…
> I have to share a few interesting links, and how Barack Obama has already won. First, from a focus group done by a republican consultant in an Upper Midwestern state, described in Ben Smith’s blog: 54 year-old white male, voted Kerry ’04, Bush ’00, Dole ’96, hunter, NASCAR fan…hard for Obama said: “I’m gonna…
> The head of IT at Amherst College compiled the technology use habits of his incoming freshmen (class of 2012). Here it is.Some tidbits:There are 438 people99% have facebook accounts1% have landlines The personal landline is a technology that will be obsolete relatively soon. Why have that, when you have caller id, and even web…
