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It's very hard to find people with both deep domain knowledge and deep math/statistics knowledge, in the same way that it's often hard to find people with deep programming knowledg…

The best business practices to emulate come from successful in boring and fiercely competitive industries, where you can see if those practices are really making a difference. When…

I think this is a fairly common pervasive, semi-conscious but unspoken feeling throughout many marketing and communications measurement organizations.

>>> the change is mostly about moving this risk (and potential reward related to it). This is exactly right! And the theory behind it is actually one of the papers behind this year…

This echoes some of my recent frustrations with customer success organizations to a T. I'll also add in that many customer success organizations feel like the Post-Sell Upsell Sale…

In my experience "expertise in making sense of data" is only one piece of the puzzle, and often not even the most important one. Domain expertise is hugely important at making sens…

As a user more than an engineer, most of the apps I use have 'one feature,' but the one feature that's important to me is different than the one feature that's important to other p…

There's actually a lot of research about confidence (and an entire pop-psychology book on the subject). The basic finding is similar to what the article says: too much confidence i…

"2. Internal employees - Stack Overflow said this has been available internally for a bit, but when employees find out what others are making they are inclined to compare their own…

>> Good HR means three things: a clear management structure, a way for people to talk about workplace issues and concerns, and pathways for people to evolve in their careers. I've …

I've said the same thing to leaders at multiple startups (some well known) and they all gave me a look like I was a neophyte who didn't understand the motivating power of ping pong…

From the article: "If the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame wants to be taken seriously, they need to put their books out in the public. They need to fucking become transparent" Am I miss…

The missing part of the advice is that you need to hire the best _for your company_. But there isn't an objective definition of 'best.' People can be great at one job and not right…

Michael Lewis had an article a few years ago where he described this effect using Shane Battier as the example - none of his stats were spectacular, but somehow his team played bet…

This is just a hypothesis, but maybe for viewability for ads? There's a big controversy among advertisers/publishers over the difference between "was my ad shown" and "was my ad se…

This sounds more like having a distributor than having a landlord. Imagine you create a craft beer. You can't build a relationship with all of the bars, restaurants, nightclubs, ga…

There are some other great explanations in this thread (survivor bias seems very plausible), but I'll throw out another based on my experience with other construction trades: econo…

>>> Wish I could tell all of this to my 14-year-old self. I often think this about any number of things, and then I realize there were probably a lot of people in my life who were …

I use my Surface Pro 3 on my lap a fair amount. It's not the best, but it's functional if I'm in a seat at the airport, or a hotel lobby, or on the couch. I've also realized that a…

It's a Nespresso machine - it's not even that expensive. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/apr...

I could see any of the large professional services firms or government/defense contractors being interested.

From my experience with companies that sell consulting/technology to the government, 'blowing the whistle' is more likely to lead to people questioning how the government spent so …