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Analytics - Donn's The Renaissance Man
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. Tell me what you want to see. July 3, 2016. Caught this magnificent optical illusion on kottke.org. Today I’d say that is definitely this is worth a minute or two of your time. Was in my “data” frame of mind when I watched this, and couldn’t help thinking that this is exactly how data works: control the content, control the angle (i.e. perception), and you can make a square block look like a cylinder. Student loans and how the deed is infinitely stronger than the word. As a co...
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Analysis vs. Process - Donn's The Renaissance Man
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. Analysis vs. Process. December 29, 2013. I’m currently reading a very nice book (so far) by Dan Heath. Called Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions in Life and Work. Where I came across the following passage on analysis vs. process:. I suppose this isn’t given enough attention is it? First time I read about something that didn’t praise analysis, Alleluia! You ask the analysis team (that’d be me) to model the possible scenarios. In scenario one it doesn’t make ...But the decis...
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Statistics do not always tell the whole story
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. Statistics do not always tell the whole story. February 18, 2013. I’m not sure if you’ve read or heard about the recent unfavourable review of the Tesla Model S by New York Times reporter John Broder. But if you haven’t, you should. The Tesla Model S, similar to the one Broder took on his trip. Not because of the review itself, which. CEO), and the use of statistics/numbers to prove a point. And how those numbers fail to show the whole picture. Numbers don’t lie. For over half...
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University - Donn's The Renaissance Man
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. The Teacher Being Surpassed by the Student. August 2, 2015. I was in class on Saturday thinking about how nice it would be if an article of mine on edonn.com was used as a piece of “teaching material” – i.e. quoted in class, or perhaps in the lecture notes. Come across a Chinese saying that goes like this:. Qīngchūyúlánérshèngyúlán, which literally translates to “blue comes from the indigo plant but is bluer (vivid) than the plant itself.”. On their way to the finals of the Eu...
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Fitness - Donn's The Renaissance Man
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. Endurance, strength-training, and the like. June 21, 2015. There’s a saying I’ve heard many times that goes something like this:. What gets measured gets done. And though I completely agree with that saying, I think it misses a crucial point: that before measuring anything, we have to make sure that what’s getting done is what you want to get done. I now do 50 push-ups without too much difficulty. I used to struggle at 30. What’s the definition of fitness? Proxy measures are u...
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Perspective Matters - Donn's The Renaissance Man
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. November 30, 2014. 120 130. 140. We were now at 150km/h and cruising past traffic on our left, traffic already exceeding the official speed limit. Let’s be clear: I wasn’t the driver (let’s call him Mr. X) In another world, the world before the one I had just entered, I would have been one of those on the left, cursing the reckless driving of an imbecile speed demon. An accident waiting to happen,. I would have thought. Who are these people? Soon after the car ride I realised ...
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Career - Donn's The Renaissance Man
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. On Hiring for the Long Term. March 26, 2016. This was something I read in a book called The Art of Scalability, something I believe I’d always intuitively known but never had spelt out explicitly: that having additional hands (or brains) does not necessarily equate to a proportional increase of output – it is often. Especially at the start. If one widget-maker can make 100 widgets in a day, two should be able to make 200, or maybe 150 if one of them is new. And if the new hire...
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Business and Finance - Donn's The Renaissance Man
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. Category Archives: Business and Finance. Long vs. Short-term: Doing what needs to be done. August 14, 2016. There is a huge difference in working with a team that you know will be with you for only a single project and a team that you know will be with you for still many more. When you’re working with a team that you know will be with you for a long time, you may do what needs to be done to achieve a favourable outcome for. Needs just as much attention. This post is more a rem...
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An IPPT Gold achiever's gold-day journal
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Donn's The Renaissance Man. July 18, 2011. The future missus said she was proud of me, and you know what? I’m plenty proud myself. So here’s the IPPT result slip that I still keep in my wallet to remind me that I’ve still got what it takes 🙂. The IPPT went well, though I had some serious doubts earlier on as to whether or not I’d be able to achieve the Gold due to weather conditions, which was one of three things I felt were transpiring to prevent me from my IPPT gold achievement. After the static stati...
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