Will Bachman

Co-Founder of Umbrex, a community of 800+ independent mgmt consultants.

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Priors: McKinsey, USN Submarine Officer

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Honored to be included on @businessinsider's list of 38 Power Players of Consulting alongside such industry luminaries as Rich Lesser, Global CEO of @BainAlerts, Joseph Davis, Chairman of North America at @BCG, and Lisa Donahue, Global Co-Lead at @AlixPartnersLLP

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It's here! @businessinsider's list of 38 power players in management consulting. These executives are leading the charge at firms large and small to address the coronavirus pandemic, reimagining recruitment strategies, and more. Nice work by @WengCheong3! https://t.co/FF1hlYTwGm

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@TerribleMaps If you got an alligator, chicken problem solved.

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@mattwridley Didn’t the Romans keep the wall staffed for something like 200 years? If it wasn’t providing value, one would think they would’ve stopped staffing it.

Side note: I walked Hadrian’s wall path last year. Great experience.

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@JimDMiller If aliens bet would that be inside trading?

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@SahilBloom I think the best would be taking that exam and getting an A.

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@shl The term is “poster syndrome”

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@auren Does the net worth calculation take into account the expected value of future Social Security payments?

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@tylercowen Survival bias: the shorter spam emails are filtered out by your email provider, so you only see the longer ones.

(This is a hypothesis.)

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@tylercowen I think the goal is to filter out the non-gullible recipients so they can focus their scamming energy on the people most likely to go the whole way through the process.

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@JamesSurowiecki O3 lists top 3 by @JamesSurowiecki
1.“Later” – The New Yorker, October 11 2010
2.“Better All the Time” – The New Yorker, November 10 2014
3.“Aim High” – The New Yorker, September 22 2003

Dates off by a week but otherwise summaries all correct.

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@Chris_arnade Try ChatGPT. “ This photo is of a church in Italy. Please take on the role of an architectural historian who is deeply versed in church architectural history. Please discuss what style of architecture we see in this photo”

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@Chris_arnade think architects like Carlo Maderno or Francesco Borromini’s early contemporaries, possibly for a Jesuit or Oratorian congregation keen on Counter-Reformation ideals.

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@Chris_arnade Giant Order Corinthian Pilasters
– Running from floor plinth to entablature without interruption, they unify the interior in a single rhythmic sweep—a hallmark of Baroque monumentality.
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@Chris_arnade Given the symmetry and still-restrained ornament (there is grandeur, but not yet the corkscrew columns and undulating walls of late Baroque), I would place the construction in the first two thirds of the 17th century—

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@Chris_arnade •Polychrome intarsio floor – Complex geometric marble patterns replace the earlier Cosmatesque or plain stone pavements, reflecting Counter-Reformation exuberance and the Italian love for pietra dura craft.

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@Chris_arnade Compare this to High Renaissance churches where the entablature often stops and starts at each bay; in Baroque hands it is stretched taut for maximum theatrical effect.

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@Chris_arnade Full Entablature “belt”
– The continuous architrave-frieze-cornice ties nave and aisles into a coherent box onto which the vault springs.

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@cblatts It was a little ironic to see no comments on your question about whether the algorithm penalizes, so.

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@MattZeitlin Do not take career advice from a guy who thinks anyone makes a living milking cows by hand.

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@SahilBloom Typo?

Perhaps you meant “ten years.”

Or maybe I’m just slower than average.