Long Term Investment (and your work)
The Measure of a Plan has a great set of graphics on U.S. stock market returns from the 1870s to 2022. In short, even including… Read More »Long Term Investment (and your work)
80/20
Statistics: The Galton Board and more
This (the Galton Board) is tremendous. If you haven’t seen it, you must, you must. The first video is great, but if you only have… Read More »Statistics: The Galton Board and more
Non-Marginal: The Tyler Cowen Effect
In Case You Were Wondering Niche Species DriverlessCrocodile is a small blog. 30 page views is a slow day; 100+ is busy. 50 people subscribe.… Read More »Non-Marginal: The Tyler Cowen Effect
A Hole in the Heart
Your organisation can live for a long time with deep cultural problems: broken attitudes to people, to the work, to the people you’re trying to… Read More »A Hole in the Heart
Working your hours
You need to put the time in. If you don’t work the hours you’ve committed to your project, it will stall or die. But if… Read More »Working your hours
Your job as the project entrepreneur…
… is to bring people to the project: to work on it, to fund it, and in one way or another to “buy” it. This… Read More »Your job as the project entrepreneur…
The unforgiving minute (2): the hard part / the meaning of sustainability
See here for The Rules of the Game On the really hard part Solving a specific local problem – digging a well, running a small… Read More »The unforgiving minute (2): the hard part / the meaning of sustainability
80/20 language and culture learning (Indonesian): Lagu Anak (Kids’ Songs) #2
This is the second in a series of posts on high-leverage ways to learn Indonesian language and culture. The idea is to identify activities that… Read More »80/20 language and culture learning (Indonesian): Lagu Anak (Kids’ Songs) #2
The unforgiving minute (1)
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll… Read More »The unforgiving minute (1)
Why should you learn to automate data analysis and reporting?
This funny and terrifyingly-close-to-home video shows why: Hat tip to Yi Hui, who has a great page (well, more of a book) on this. See… Read More »Why should you learn to automate data analysis and reporting?