Carlos Accioly 🚢

Helping managers use data to reach business goals | Working with data and software since the 20th century

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

I just hopped aboard Ship 30 for 30 from @dickiebush and @Nicolascole77!

Can't wait to learn the fundamentals of digital writing & start publishing every day alongside hundreds of others in the community.

Check it out!👇🏼🚢

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[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

@WIRED In a nutshell:

@WIRED locked me out of my account
lost my e-mail address
ignored my message to Customer Service
didn't warn me the subscription was due and at a higher price
and charged me 10 days before it was due.

Why are these creeps still in business?

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

@WIRED just cheated me out of US$ 30.

It was a blend of bait-and-switch, dark design patterns, and plain old chicanery.

Here's the story:

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

@WIRED My credit card company notified me that Wired had just charged US$ 30 to my card.

10 days before the due date.

And they sent no warning that the yearly subscription was about to be renewed, at a price much higher than I paid a year ago.

Another dark design pattern.

So...

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

Today is International Beer Day.

Cheers!

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

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[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

My dad died.

I was sitting on a plastic chair at the ICU, outside the cubicle where he lay, waiting for the death certificate.

That night I felt that I was the saddest person in the world. Then a lady walked up to me.

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

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[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

Moby-Dick's anti-hero, Captain Ahab, is NOT a role model. 

His fixation on the white whale consumes him, literally and figuratively. His ship's crew pay the price for his obsession. 

But he sometimes shows good examples of how to focus to get results.

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

Feliz Dia da Pizza!

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

Hoje é #InternationalSurfingDay... e a Praia de Ipanema está com mar ruim. 😒

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

There are 3 possible reasons to study Mathematics.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

#Today is #TowelDay: don't panic and don't forget your towel

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[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

@blair_fix Is this a serious post?

There are many economists in my family. They'd be embarrassed to see something like this posted by an economist.

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

A manager asked my help to pick a metric to show that she had been doing a good job.

Not to find out if what she was doing was working or if she should try something else.

[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

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[Carlos Accioly 🚢 @caccioly]

It's hard to deliver results if you use metrics like most managers do.

Most managers use metrics as a scorecard.

"Should we worry or should we celebrate?"

That's a waste of the true potential of performance measurement.