Methods
How to do things better. Mental tools, self-improvement, business.
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America, Dark and Bright: More upside and more downside than elsewhere
Looking at the United States from the outside, it can seem that the country is all about its politics and its media. And it’s true,…
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Two-By-Two Matrices
Each of the fields I have worked in – computer science, genetics, management consulting, biotechnology – has its own 2×2 matrices. Computer science and medicine…
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Of p Values and Effect Sizes
Scientists are obsessed with p values, and since I work in a particularly quantitative field, I’m more obsessed than most. When you run a statistical…
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Management Consulting: My life working 60 hours a week on things I didn’t care about
A consultant is a guy who borrows your watch and tells you what time it is Howard Gossage I used to work for a large,…
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Surely: Shirley, we can just skip the evidence here
This is Daniel Dennett in Intuition Pumps on the use of “surely”: When you’re reading or skimming argumentative essays, especially by philosophers, here is a…
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