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Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (especially statistics)

Thursday, March 16, 2017

get me out of here

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For 26-year-old Guillaume, the trade-off is all too easy to understand. In May 2016 he finished his graduate-school training in business l...
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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Tim Harford on facts, damned facts

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Terrific piece by Tim Harford in the FT on The problem with facts. (So terrific it is terrifyingly tempting to purloin the whole text from t...
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Truer words

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If you want to attract and keep developers, don’t emphasize ping-pong tables, lounges, fire pits and chocolate fountains. Give them privat...
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on not being hated

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"Most tech company execs will do anything to keep their engineers happy." Anil Dash is talking about what SF techies could do t...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Trying to reach Bernardo MorĂ£es

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I owe Bernardo a big apology for reasons that he will instantly understand.  After waiting for not months but years to come trailing back, t...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Falsehoods programmers believe

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I hope you don't think this is for your benefit, cats and kittens.  I just want to be able to find it again. I'm in love with the...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

War has not broken out

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You may disagree with me: you may see some thread of sensible presidential policy presentation in Trump's speeches. I'll leave tha...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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