I wrote a parody of Poe's "The Raven" titled "The Boardroom."
In corporate settings, certain buzzwords are repeated almost as often as "Nevermore." Enjoy!
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Once upon a morning dreary, sipping coffee, stressed and bleary,
As discussion filled the boardroom of a miserable Q4,
Guys, I don’t know how else to say this: You can’t deplatform a party that half the country voted for from mass media. It won’t work. What you might succeed in doing is strengthening the walls of your own bubble, making it harder to defeat them in elections.
Talent matters more than we realize. I tried to articulate an argument anyone who hires people knows intuitively, but struggles to sell to their superiors.
To judge an outcome is to presume to know the objective of the decision-maker.
Perhaps someone is optimizing for something different than you’d suspect or prefer.
Be wary of any argument made by someone unwilling to bleed. The goal should never be to settle arguments, but rather, to partake in arguments if and only if both parties have skin in the game.
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I am continually amazed at how easily I can avoid feeling the internal anguish when presented with someone else’s irrationality if I can simultaneously recognize that they would be unwilling to put their money where their mouth is.
The landscape of adult life is littered with hall-monitors. They are the risk-averse naysayers willing to cast doubt on an idea that runs afoul of existing orthodoxy, but not to put their own skin in the game to demonstrate that they believe their own rhetoric.
(More to come)
Who wants to live in a world where the same giant companies win the labor of the best and brightest, the best and brightest all attend the same few schools, and the same teams win championships every season?
Be Original, I Beg You
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Elite NCAA football programs can offer up to 25 scholarships annually. For basketball, that figure is 3 or 4. In turn, the best HS football players flock to ~10 elite programs (who win the CFP every year).
Talent concentration kills innovation in sports and tech. (more to come)
@dcrean@NFL@Giants@nyjets I watched the game with a painful urge to chunder / I turned the TV off and wished I had bet the under /
Oh what a farce!
Doo-doo, blue is screwed,
doo-doo, blue is screwed…
@dcrean@NFL@Giants@nyjets Oh what a farce!
Daboll’s nightmare, what an awful fright / drenched in sweat, he lies awake each night / call up Wentz now? What a farce.