@xek tweeted that “Almost everyone who does twitter stats is a fucking moron”. I was going to say that no one really knows what the hell is going on when it comes to social media, but I believe his estimate adds a greater level of precision. For example, the tweet reach tool tells me that…
Let’s make a deal. Would you trade me 30 years of your life for this house in Malibu? Say, you are 25 now, so, instead of living to 78, you’d live to be 48. Would you trade? If I threw in a really nice car, all the newest computers, iPhones, big-screen TVs and a new…
Since it’s the international year of statistics, I felt a little guilty that I have not done that much in the way of statistics lately. However, I think that is true whether you are an engineer, statistician, biologist or whatever, within a few years after your Ph.D. (at most!) you find lots of your time…
We’re waiting by the phone, um, computer to find that our Kickstarter project is (we hope!) approved. In the meantime, our Chief Marketing Officer asked me why there was a need for documentation, which is one of the expenses that would be funded from the crowd. It’s like this – we started writing a game…
Some days, the world seems to be divided into two groups; idiots who annoy me and people I haven’t yet met. The largest group of idiots who annoy me are those that tell me how much they want to help small business. This includes most government agencies at all levels and just about every non-profit…
Before you decide you want to start a business, be sure you understand the difference between: Doing whatever you want. Owning a business. Not having anyone tell you what to do. Here is what I wanted to do in the past month: A lot of php A lot of javascript Write a new computer game…
If you know of any African-American women executives (or are such a person yourself), please read on … Shanetta was a student in my Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis class last year and is certain to be someone you’ll hear about in the years ahead. Help her out now and you can honestly claim to have…