Evan Coopersmith

Fractional Chief Analytics Officer, Data Scientist, Writer, Contrarian, former baseball bettor, hedge fund guy (2008), government scientist (2016)

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

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,

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@KellyScaletta I have teeth
Not baleen
My sea world act’s a scene
You know you couldn’t watch me any other way!

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@FezzikSports “The western coast, it is erodin’
grievance airin’, norms imposin’…

https://t.co/sdwNZEkXno

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@jarrenrocks_ I have always appreciated the word “burninate”

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@jarrenrocks_ Alas, too few of us realize that to experience life as poetry rather than prose is the ultimate act of mindfulness.

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

So here’s the very model of a modern hypothetical:

One half believes a premise that the other finds heretical.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

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.

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@JeroenDeDauw I am flattered you found it insightful - perhaps one must share personal experience to connect with the content?

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

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.

[Forbes Technology Council @ForbesTechCncl]

Finding The Right Talent For The Right Tasks https://t.co/JLgicyjGD4 Written by @evan_coop of @aestudiola

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

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.

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

contracts signed by Kirk Cousins:

2012: standard 4-yr rookie deal
2016: $19.9M fully guaranteed
2017: $23.9M fully guaranteed
2018: $84.0M fully guaranteed
2020: $66.0M fully guaranteed
2022: $35.0M fully guaranteed
2024: $150M ($100M fully guaranteed)

career: $411M thru 2027...

...of which $329M was fully guaranteed

(and 1 playoff win in 12 years)

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@SumnerLN @ForestNeurotech It is an honor to know you. May your successes be as spectacular as your dreams.

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@jarrenrocks_ Those who are truly iconic copy no one. And of course, for that reason, no one will ever successfully copy them.

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

Arguably more impressive as an adult, but decidedly more cramped.

[Josh Maxwell @maxwelljosh]

If you grew up within 50 miles of Philadelphia, you’ve likely walked through this.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

What the US spends on education, and what it buys.

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

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.

https://t.co/aNOJjCAllw

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

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.

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

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)

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

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

https://t.co/1Gb80kQ6e8

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

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)

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@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…

[Evan Coopersmith @Evan_Coop]

@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.