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Re: How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time

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Post by jdleesmiller » Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 9:42 PM UTC

djhn wrote: post #59

Awesome project! I'm a big fan of using econometric methods in Quantified Self -type analysis. A couple of thoughts on your regressions: Keeping holidays in the data seems counterintuitive. I'm fairly sure just from eyeing the graphs that the increase in your work week might reach statistical significance if you were to use a regression method more resistant to outliers, like Least Trimmed Squares. Another idea - in…

(Author here.) I'm very pleased to finally receive some feedback on the technical side!

I will have to check out Least Trimmed Squares (and maybe other robust regression techniques). For this dataset, I did try to exclude holidays, but it was difficult to define this exactly, so a more robust technique might indeed work better.

And yes, it would be interesting to see what tags co-occur. Good ideas for a future post. Thanks!

Re: How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time

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Post by wwalser » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 3:54 AM UTC

JamesBarney wrote: post #58

wwalser wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I agree with your statement for the most part, I also understand that there is some context to it. That specific context is Marissa Mayer and other early Google employees. I find it hard to convince myself that those people and especially Mayer, were not or are not compensated in some way that takes those huge swathes of time into consideration. She was paid $36MM in 2015 and raised the market cap of Yahoo! by…

I was under the impression the majority of the change in stock price for Yahoo(if not all) was related to them owning a large share of Ali Baba stock which has skyrocketed in value. And this purchase was made before Marissa Mayer took over.

This could be the case. I wasn't able to quickly find market cap information for Ali Baba prior to it's US listing. Every since the Ali Baba IPO, Yahoo!'s stock has closely tracked BABA.

Re: How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time

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Post by wwalser » Wed, Aug 31, 2016, 4:04 AM UTC

arntatis wrote: post #32

wwalser wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I agree with your statement for the most part, I also understand that there is some context to it. That specific context is Marissa Mayer and other early Google employees. I find it hard to convince myself that those people and especially Mayer, were not or are not compensated in some way that takes those huge swathes of time into consideration. She was paid $36MM in 2015 and raised the market cap of Yahoo! by…

Do you think that market cap of Yahoo was increased by 151% in four years as a direct result of the number of hours worked? Could it have been done if she worked 50% less hours? A difficult question to answer with evidence.

> Do you think that market cap of Yahoo was increased by 151% in four years as a direct result of the number of hours worked? No. I believe it's probably true that she is compensated, in part, because of her brand which is highly associated with her dedication to working long hours.

I hedged quite a lot in my OP to try and convey that this was the only part that I was confident of.

Re: How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time

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Post by cel1ne » Thu, Sep 01, 2016, 8:21 AM UTC

Xcelerate wrote: post #53

glossyscr wrote: post #39

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I have also two types of days: - I am ultra productive or... - I am procrastinating the entire day

I wonder what causes this type of bimodal "quality of work" distribution.

It's a result of many unconscious decisions by your brain which aim for regeneration and conservation of energy mainly.

Even when those are not needed..., the brain isn't too clever about modern work-load.