(Part 2) Best business management & leadership books according to redditors
We found 4,460 Reddit comments discussing the best business management & leadership books. We ranked the 1,469 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
In the book Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz uses Google Trends extensively to research social shifts. It's not a perfect method and it can't paint us a perfect picture, but it's generally a good indicator of how a social trend has progressed.
A search on Google Trends for "jewish jokes" shows a general downward trend since 2004. "jew jokes" went up around 2008-2012 but then fell and is currently at the lowest point recorded by Google. More blatantly anti-semitic searches like "jews in the media","jews control the media","jews did 9/11","jewish elite", and other similar searches are all on a steady downward trend as well.
I'm not an expert at this stuff but it seems to me that anti-semitism is on a general downward trend overall. There are alternative explanations for these trends, like anti-anti-semitism becoming more common and having a chilling effect on peoples' searches, but it seems to me that the simplest answer is the most likely.
And mocking him for being "wrong" just belies a complete lack of understanding of statistics and probability. I mean, if he had her penned at 70% (as the post up above indicated), then he's forecasting a 30% chance she'll lose. 30% is a pretty significant chance - not unlikely at all!
The problem is that, emotionally, people would rather somebody forecast something with certainty (even if the prediction is completely divorced from reality) than have someone use all the information we have, as well as we can use it, and arrive at the conclusion that "we really don't know for sure".
Nate Silver's book talks about this quite a bit and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone interested in data analysis and/or political punditry.
This is the message I just sent to the admins
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I remember when /u/Spez came back and did his big AMA, one of the big questions was about moderators abusing power. Then /u/Spez just did another AMA and the two biggest questions were in regard to moderators being abusive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4megfw/ama_about_my_darkest_secrets/d3uu949
Now we have a huge mass shooting. And the mods at /r/news are silencing discussion and conversation about it. It's absurd.
I actually woke up, 830 CT, checked Reddit, saw nothing out of the ordinary, started cooking breakfast. My girlfriend woke up, checked CNN and told me about the shooting. I re-opened the Reddit app and scrolled and scrolled and scrolled. Went to /r/News finally and saw that nuked thread. Went to /r/all and of all the god damn subs on Reddit, it's /r/the_donald leading the charge in reporting news.
Is this what you imagined Reddit to be? I certainly never thought it would come to this. For the last 5 years, I've always come to Reddit when events like this happen, because Reddit gave me the best perspective. Locals, professionals, lay people who are smart as hell: all gathered together, bringing their knowledge to bear on a situation. Reddit embodies one of the key lessons in the book Superforcasting—groups are smarter than individuals. Reddit live threads and megathreads have been amazing. /r/news and /r/worldnews have been, in the past, places that left mainstream media in the dust.
But today was an ugly day. Today was Reddit at its worst. Corrupted.
I hope you all take this seriously and send a message that moderation like this won't be tolerated. I recommend you remove every single one of the /r/news and /r/worldnews mods. Start fresh. That may take more work, but it's the healthiest choice you can make. Mods like this are legitimately a cancer. If you leave them alone, they will fester and continue to wreak havoc on the body "in toto".
Whether you all like it or not, Reddit has become a political tool. It's become a business tool. It's become a marketing tool. You've created something amazing that helps shape the world. But it's also shaped by the world. And, just like a gun, there are people who would use Reddit in evil ways. It's time to stop ignoring the issues with moderators and moderation. People with selfish interests have, overtime, worked their way into key moderation positions in reddit. Mod abuse is real. And mod abuse is something that will wreck your site, that will leave Reddit a hollow shell of what it began is, what it was, and what it could have been.
Please, do something. You're our only hope.
I can’t recommend highly enough 3 books on good visualizations in business (and everywhere else)
Report format for abstract/methods/etc vs PowerPoint for salespeople varies dramatically from company to company, so I don’t have any good recommendations there. But in the “a picture is worth a thousand words” world, visualizations really matter.
This is what the book Superforecasting is about. It's not just geopolitical events, it's general estimation and prediction ability. Here's a review and excerpts. There's also a Freakonomics podcast episode on the book.
TL;DR: Use Bayes' Theorem.
I gift this book to my interns:
Unwritten Laws of Engineering: Revised and Updated Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0791801624/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.NCODbW2P4A2D
I rather like Unwritten Rules of Engineering. Quite short at 70 pages. While written in 1944 and for Engineers largely before CS was a profession the dynamics that happen in workplaces have not changed all that much. The negatives are fairly minor, it tends to advocate a more formal set of interactions which seem less common in some parts of the industry and that the booklet is written using he/him for the Engineer.
Some highlights
communication skills
interactions with your boss
interpersonal interactions
My advice is to follow 3 tracks.
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These are things that led me to where I am today. Others may have completely different or contradictory advice. But these are my go to methods. And most of my clients in the past 2 years have come to me. I didn't call them, or post an ad. Generally they found me through a recommendation from a friend, LinkedIn, Twitter, slack group, Dribbble, or at a meeting.
There's a book on this called "Scale" written by a theoretical physicist that explains why phenomenon like arteries and capillaries are all governed by physical constraints and shows you all the different ways those constraints manifest. If you liked this comment you should probably check it out. The high seas might be able to help.
https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainability-Organisms/dp/1594205582
Wow, 24 hours and no replies?!
Fine, you know what? FUCK IT!
Alright, first off - While you can concentrate on physical, understanding the basics of the digital side of things will make you more valuable, and arguably more effective. I'll take this opportunity to point you at Metasploit and tell you to atleast spend an hour or so each week working to understand it. I'm not saying you have to know it backwards or inside-out, just get a basic understanding.
But you said you want to go down the physical path, so fuck all that bullshit I said before, ignore it if you want, I don't care. It's just a suggestion.
Do you pick locks? Why not? Come on over to /r/Lockpicking and read the stickied post at the top. Buy a lockpick set. You're just starting so you can go a little crazy, or be conservative. Get some locks (Don't pick locks you rely on!) at a store, and learn the basics of how to pick.
Your fingers will get sore. Time to put down the picks and start reading:
That reading list right there gives you over 2000 pages to read. Read. Read More.
Tired of Reading? Have you been listening to the Social-Engineer.org Podcasts? 53 quality podcasts right there. Time to catch up!
Tired of listening? Take a break! And by "Take a break" I mean grab your lockpicks, a lock, and start picking while you relax with a Jayson Street video. He's fun to watch, and will hopefully distract you while you try picking a lock. Also, he highlights how you don't have to be a computer-genius to be good at PenTesting. Go watch more of his videos while you pick locks - It's entertaining at least, and informative/educational at best. Now go watch Deviant Ollam's videos if you're done with Jayson Street.
Sounds like a lot? It's not. You'll spend a bit of money getting started with picks, locks, and books. It's the nature of the game, no good way around it. It's time-consuming. You may have to give up playing your favourite games for a while. But the things you learn and skills you develop will pay more than that game did. By the time you're halfway through any one of those books you'll have a much better idea of what questions you want or need to ask in order to progress further and faster every day.
Go to Security Cons. DerbyCon is awesome, and happens in late September, plenty of time to start saving money and making reservations. Talk to people, ask questions, and make connections. You will learn more in those 4 days than some people learn in months or years and you'll have tons of fun.
If you can swing it, attend Deviant Ollam's "Physical Security Skills for Penetration Testers" class. The things you will learn in that class will make it worth every damned penny, and you'll feel like a bad-ass at the end of it.
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No offense taken. ☺️
You’re right. Secrets are not safe. Gay, straight, bi, cis... whatever it’s being labeled as these days is not the culprit IMO.
As a recovering/recovered addict, the most damaging secret is hiding a drug addiction.
This book was a fascinating read (well, to me), and it just goes to show that everybody lies.
Join us over on /r/Entrepreneur and /r/smallbusiness I own a small product design company, I'm solo with part time helpers right now.
Your question is like a whole book. I would recommend The founder's dilemmas http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304
and E-myth revisted, Founders Dilemmas doesn't tell you what's right but outlines the choices for why founders choose to structure a new company and the pro's and cons.
For an idea like yours I would look to finding a manufacturing partner company that will build on contract, then look to crowdfuning or smoke screening to build up enough pre-orders to become self sufficient. I would always test an idea before I think it's a blast. As with everything in life it's usually driven by marketing and positioning rather than tangible quantitative performance or features.
Best of luck, feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I'm roughly looking for a partner too but my sales don't justify it yet.
This is why statistics are so easy to lie with. No one puts the basic effort into understanding what they mean.
Plenty of teams have overcome low odds. There's plenty of variance in sports and the weaknesses of 538s model for direct-game prediction is well known (for ex: the fact CARMELO measures players instead of teams as a unit, that it uses data from the regular season despite large post-season statistical gaps, etc).
The later into the playoffs the more accurate it will get. But it's still a small amount of data but despite all of that it's still one of the best we've got.
FWIW, if you care, 538's creator wrote a good book about bayesian statistics and prediction modelling: https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-but/dp/0143125087/
Calibration exercises may not be common outside the rationality sphere, but they certainly didn't start within the rationality sphere either. AFAIK, Philip Tetlock started the trend in Expert Political Judgement when he ran a series of experiments comparing expert predictions to random university undergrads. The experts outperformed, but they could further be divided into foxes and hedgehogs - those who know many things, and those who are quite certain of one thing.
Anyway, Silver quotes Tetlock in his book The Signal and the Noise, so I'm guessing that's where he got the idea.
From the NYT bestseller "Everybody Lies'
https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856
Here are a few that I've found useful relating to teamwork, management, and/or general career shit:
You will pick up the knowledge fairly quickly, but the wisdom part comes slowly.
Read some books:
Start humble, stay humble, be quick to listen and slow to speak, and don't make changes on Friday!
I wouldn't call it fluff. If read it all, it's pretty informative. He looked at Suzuki's comparables among players who produced close to his place. He separated his analysis in various groups to draw many comparisons:
Obviously it gives no definitive prediction. There is much uncertain about prospects, so with the rare exception of top-end talent, it's hard to predict whether the player is NHL-ready. All of us were wrong about Kotkaniemi's NHL-readiness last year, for example. That being said, it allows us to have a better informed idea of his odds of making the NHL.
If you look at the list of the four years CHL players, then Suzuki looks like it'll take some time to settle and will benefit from a year or two in the AHL. On the other hand, his first three years and his OHL playoff performance suggest a different kind of player. In either case, there's a solid chance we have a second line or better player. Suzuki's closest comparable is actually Kadri, which isn't bad at all. While it's possible he'll flop (i.e., Hodgson and Etem), he's more likely than not going to play in the NHL. He isn't overhyped.
People tend to look down upon uncertain conclusions (Truman famously demanded a one-handed economist), but studies demonstrate that analysts who make these mitigated predictions are by far the most accurate. Good forecasting requires to be aware of the uncertainty, and acknowledging it is a signal of competence. I'm more wary of those who use sport analytics to arrive to very confident conclusions.
this is a MUST READ before you begin.
https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/dp/0887306667
also, another suggestion would be a site with a live global map.
two maps actually.
one map shows the countries that are priced out of using crypto due to bitcoin fees.
The other shows the countries that CAN use bitcoin cash.
Did you know Amazon will donate a portion of every purchase if you shop by going to smile.amazon.com instead? Over $50,000,000 has been raised for charity - all you need to do is change the URL!
Here are your smile-ified links:
https://smile.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainability-Organisms/dp/1594205582
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because everyone thinks their team problems are unique and really they're all just stale memes.
if you read this you'll be able to perfectly line up all the shitheads in your department with the book characters
Ditto over here. I just started reading and I know I'm going to have to come back later. Nate Silver writes some interesting words in the preface of "The Signal and The Noise" that relate to this topic. He states that what we're experiencing now has analogues in history - the most salient example being that the advent of the printing press was eventually responsible for newspapers that catered to every viewpoint or belief structure. The Internet has just made the rabbit hole deeper and more lifelike while requiring considerably less imagination to continue on.
Here are some resources that have been incredibly helpful for me. :)
Books:
Videos:
Podcasts:
Random thoughts:
Yes, there's plenty of great reads, e.g., Storytelling with Data.
At a high-level, I emphasize the following to my direct reports & clients:
The error comes from focusing on the wrong filters. The "liberal media" is a thing (in two ways, really, but let's focus on the one people generally refer to) when you look at rhetoric. This can be determined through linguistic data analysis, which Seth Stephens-Davidowitz did in his book Everybody Lies. One of the interesting things he shows there is that the rhetorical bias varies not by ownership, for instance, but mostly through the dominant political leaning of the area in which the paper (which was the focus of the study) is sold. That is, a news outlet's rhetorical bias depends on its audience, not its owners.
This analysis is useful, but there is a glaring problem with it: In focusing on rhetoric, it ignores actual policy advocacy and, importantly, publication bias. And that's where the owners have influence. As long as the policy advocated agrees with the owners (and the media's inherent structural biases, re: the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model), how it is presented (the rhetoric) only matters to the extent that it influences revenue. And anything that is counter to these interests, will be ignored.
So, yes, there is a "liberal media" (and they're actually fairly dominant). Problem is, they are liberal in rhetoric only (and sometimes in actual policy, depending on what you mean by 'liberal'). What the media doesn't tell you is usually much more important than what it does.
First, consistently solving A1 and B1 is a great start! Puts you well above the typical. Be sure to pay attention to how you write it up: Putnam graders are very strict and solutions most often get 0, 1, 9, or 10 points. Be also aware of what your goals are and don’t get anxious, you’re not looking to solve everything, so it's good to fully solve one problem before moving on. Putnam problems in particular often have short clean solutions that are really satisfying to find.
You also can't beat just working through problems. Putnam 1985-2000 by Vakil, Kedlaya, Poonen is fantastic as it gives many ways of solving or approaching each of the problems. It also gives just the right level of hints. This way you can learn both by working through the problem and by seeing the different perspectives. For example, with a single problem there may be a long brute-force solution, a quick but hard to discover solution, and a quick solution based on advanced math (you can use most things that come up in an undergrad math curriculum, even elliptic curves).
The Art and Craft of Problem Solving is a great read for general strategies and practice, and will remain relevant throughout any later work.
Mathematical Olympiad Challenges by Andreescu and Gelca shows off a few major problem solving styles and has a great selection of problems. I studied it in high school and it ended up being very important for me getting Putnam Fellow.
Earlier I had also studied Problem-Solving Strategies but that may be too big and not as focused on Putnam type of problems
you don't need a business school to experience the core of this class ...
Here's a link to Steve Blank's HBR article on The Lean Startup. Also a series of free lectures that Steve Blank put up on Udacity, called "How to Build a Startup" a course that over 500,000 people have viewed. These lectures are supported by a book that Steve Blank wrote with Bob Dorf called The Startup Owners Manual, as well as a best selling business book by Alexander Osterwalder called Business Model Generation. You may also want to see Alexander's other book, Value Proposition Design for more input/insight.
This sub tends to focus on statistical topics that are a bit more math intensive. But there's definitely stuff you can learn about descriptive statistics and visualization that doesn't require a strong math background. I just did a quick query on Amazon and found a couple of well reviewed books you may want to check out.
https://www.amazon.com/Excelling-Data-Descriptive-Statistics-Using/dp/1491029129
https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257
There is also good stuff on Khan Academy. Pausing when he introduces a problem and trying to work it out yourself is a good way to go.
What kind of work are you hoping to use some basic stats in?
Data Science = Technical Skills + Stats Skills + Business Expertise. So, for technical skills, start with Python, SQL, and Tableau. For Stats Skills, pick up 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year stats book. For business experience, work on business projects where use Python and Stats skills to solve them.
EDIT:
Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking, Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython , Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data
So, you gotta sharpen up your programming skills.
Godspeed
Can you explain how I'm being divisive?
I really do appreciate solidarity. My biggest take-away of the election. I'm uncomfortable with it, but I recognize how powerful something like a >50% swing in Republican views based on a changed party stance is.
I voted for Hillary and told friends to. Over 90% of Bernie supports did, too, and considering some of that 10% were probably never-Hillary or conservatives dipping left, that's some pretty good solidarity.
I'm not personally upset about stuff like super delegates. We wouldn't have Trump if the Republican's used them, and Bernie isn't a Democrat. I don't think some of the reactions of Hillary supporters to people that felt disenfranchised by their party are helpful, though. And if things like the leaked "pied piper" strategy are real/impactful the DNC fucked up real bad.
You're right, "neoliberal" isn't a great term. It's got a good amount of drift from its usage in other areas/historical (not that we aren't using roughly the opposite meaning of "liberal" as the rest of the world). Unfortunately I don't have time to write anything with more depth. The flawed shorthand would be the intersection of Bill Clinton/Obama policies and protested Bush policies, primarily the pro-war, pro-big business, pro-surveillance state policies at the cost of social programs.
I think FPTP is awful and we need to do something about campaign finance reform that both parties are disincentivized from doing (especially when in majority). I think (per this book) an unfortunate bit of politics is that when evaluating what platform to adjust to it is more effective to disregard people that are going to vote for you anyway, so you court people that skipped the previous election.
Sorry, won't be able to reply. Cheers
There's a really good book that delves into this issue, it's called Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are. The author talks about how when someone grows up can effect their favorite sports team, and what political party they identify as. People who came of age during Watergate grew up to be more Democratic leaning, while those who came of age under Reagan were more Republican leaning. Basically who was president when you were growing up, and what that president did, will give you either a positive or negative impressive of that president and the party they belong to.
It's a really interesting book, touches on a ton of subjects. Worth reading.
I really enjoyed Godel's Proof by Nagel + Newman. It's a layman's guide to Godel incompleteness theorem. It avoids some of the more finnicky details, while still giving the overall impression.
https://www.amazon.com/Gödels-Proof-Ernest-Nagel/dp/0814758371/
If you like that, it's edited by Hofstadter, who wrote Godel-Escher-Bach, a famous book about recurrence.
Finally, I would recommend Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright. It's a life-changing book that dives into the relevance of game theory, evolutionary biology and information technology. (Warning that the first 80 pages are very dry.)
https://www.amazon.com/Nonzero-Logic-Destiny-Robert-Wright/dp/0679758941/
Sorry for being in this situation.
For others concerned about starting a company with others, I'd highly recommend that you all read the book The Founder's Dilemmas beforehand. It's really important stuff.
I think, well, are you getting interviews?
Your post, you just seem really down on yourself. Once you get one person to trust in you, to trust in your ability, that's what it takes to establish your career. It'll work for you once you trust in yourself and project confidence. I think one of the things, I got my start with a really small company (10 employees) and the post was on craigslist in a different state and I had no internship since I was a transfer student. I had to be adaptable. I remember after that position, I wasn't even in school and went to a different university's job fair and got an interview with the army corps as a result. If you think your cover letter isn't working, that's a fantastic way to meet recruiters face-to-face. It was kinda just trying anything and having perseverance.
Read that unwritten laws of engineering. I think it's a good thing to read about starting out. Don't think a job is below you. I'm out in the field right now struggling with transportation contractors. But it's been fantastic experience.
Quote from Superforecasting about a superforecaster named Doug:
>Doug knows that when people read for pleasure they naturally gravitate to the like-minded. So he created a database containing hundreds of information sources—from the New York Times to obscure blogs—that are tagged by their ideological orientation, subject matter, and geographical origin, then wrote a program that selects what he should read next using criteria that emphasize diversity. Thanks to Doug’s simple invention, he is sure to constantly encounter different perspectives.
Someone emailed Doug to see if he'd be willing to make his software public. If I recall correctly, Doug said that his software was a pile of kludges and would need to be redone if it was going to be used by anyone else.
However, I don't think the program described would be difficult for you to independently replicate at all. Even better, make it in to a discussion website. Something like reddit, but without any upvoting or downvoting, just links that are a representative sample of perspectives from all across the political spectrum.
Reddit is basically a confirmation bias nightmare, with view-specific subreddits where one point of view gets upvotes and opposing points of view get downvotes. Similar "filter bubble" issues exist on other social websites. Creating an online community version of Doug's program could be an ideal way to build a platform where people of different political views engaged each other without any single perspective coming to rule the entire community.
Another idea: I've heard that Tumblr is full of bugs. Since it's owned by Yahoo, it probably won't get much better. But it's heavily used in the rationality community. What if you created a competitor for Tumblr, but targeted at the community, with fewer bugs, and with better conversational dynamics? I honestly wonder whether Tumblr's lousy conversational dynamics are an existential threat to Effective Altruism and the rationality movement. (Note: I think theunitofcaring was involved in a project like this at one point, but it got abandoned? I suggest talking to her and trying to get her to advise you.)
The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball
I did a project early in my career with a senior developer who didn't know shit about data warehouses and a lot of the performance issues and getting crapped on by this ignoramus could have been avoided had we both read this book. Instinctively I wanted to denormalize to improve performance. But I was "wrong".
Anyway if you do any kind of data analytics, I would highly recommend you read this book. Star Schema is bae.
Check out math competition questions, and hang out on the AoPS forums. The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz is a good start, though it's far from sufficient for getting proficient at problem solving.
Yes, you are being unfair unless you are paying them market wages for developing in addition to the 5%.
I'll assume though, that currently you have $0 in revenue and you are paying $0 in salaries.
In that case, giving 5% in exchange for their labor is robbery. Even if they agree to it, once they realize their tragic mistake, you'll lose them and find yourself with half-written software.
I recommend you review:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304
and
http://www.amazon.com/Slicing-Pie-Funding-Company-Without/dp/0615700624
The former addresses a lot of the concerns I mentioned while the latter proposes an alternative approach based on contribution over time.
Le problème, c'est qu'aucun expert n'est capable de prédire le devenir d'un système politique. Un extrait du bouquin "Thinking fast and slow" de D. Kahneman (prix nobel d'économie pour ses travaux sur la psychologie de la prise de décision):
"Tetlock interviewed 284 people who made their living “commenting or offering advice on political and economic trends.” He asked them to assess the probabilities that certain events would occur in the not too distant future, both in areas of the world in which they specialized and in regions about which they had less knowledge. Would Gorbachev be ousted in a coup? Would the United States go to war in the Persian Gulf? Which country would become the next big emerging market? In all, Tetlock gathered more than 80,000 predictions. He also asked the experts how they reached their conclusions, how they reacted when proved wrong, and how they evaluated evidence that did not support their positions. Respondents were asked to rate the probabilities of three alternative outcomes in every case: the persistence of the status quo, more of something such as political freedom or economic growth, or less of that thing.
The results were devastating. The experts performed worse than they would have if they had simply assigned equal probabilities to each of the three potential outcomes. In other words, people who spend their time, and earn their living, studying a particular topic produce poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have distributed their choices evenly over the options. Even in the region they knew best, experts were not significantly better than nonspecialists. Those who know more forecast very slightly better than those who know less. But those with the most knowledge are often less reliable. The reason is that the person who acquires more knowledge develops an enhanced illusion of her skill and becomes unrealistically overconfident. (...) Tetlock also found that experts resisted admitting that they had been wrong, and when they were compelled to admit error, they had a large collection of excuses: they had been wrong only in their timing, an unforeseeable event had intervened, or they had been wrong but for the right reasons."
L'expert est incapable de prédire ce que va devenir le système: il sait faire du diagnostic (identifier un pb quand il s'est produit), pas du pronostic (prédire le pb). Et comme le montrent les travaux de Tetlock, il n'admet pas cette incompétence. L'expert n'en sachant pas plus sur l'avenir que le citoyen de base, la défiance envers les experts s'explique alors très bien.
Après, la pertinence du raisonnement du citoyen de base, c'est une autre question...
Edit: apparemment, Tetlock aurait sorti un bouquin récemment sur le thème: https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction-Philip-Tetlock/dp/0804136718
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>Except an election is not random probability
No one is claiming that, they use predictive probability I just gave an example that's simpler.
>His method for calculating the chances was straight up wrong.
Do you have a source that backs that up?
Please read this
And this
And if you don't understand what those are saying, please read this
*edits
I've been through a number of startups and a number of different founders over the years and some were excellent while others, not so much. I've learned through experience that finding a suitable founding partner is far more complex than it first appears.
This is the book I wish I could have read before my first venture. I highly recommend reading it!
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Probably the best thing you can do is start networking a lot because you'll never find a partner if you're not meeting people. Of course most of this can be done online, at least initially.
The 4 tufte books: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_be?gclid=CjwKCAiAlO7uBRANEiwA_vXQ-2v-n0CohhIbgiDLiN4cTTgo9-ZNgt3dBsdKfyeaoH8_4lx_SZTljxoCsN4QAvD_BwE
Storytelling with data: https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257
Good charts: https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwisyKn6nofmAhXHn7MKHW78CkYYABACGgJxbg&sig=AOD64_0v-YhApSFqcyd2HY_xreF6giEQwQ&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwi8jZ76nofmAhVEOKwKHXliAVgQwg96BAgPEBg&adurl=
Deviant Ollam has a great book that explains everything.
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Edition/dp/1597499897/
If you want to get started sooner:
Here's an "Intro to Tableau" Evernote link that has the detail below, but this is what I've put together for our teams when new folks join and want to know more about it.
http://www.evernote.com/l/AKBV30_85-ZEFbF0lNaDxgSMuG9Mq0xpmUM/
What is Tableau?
Where do I get it?
Now that I have it, how do I use it?
How do I become involved?
I want to know more
No problem, glad you enjoyed it.
If you are interested in game design, read The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schnell. At least skim it. It's great and gets deep into the emotion and psychology of game design.
For business stuff, I got a lot of input from the classic E-Myth Revisited. I won't say it didn't get boring, but the actual point of it (systematize EVERYTHING) is a really important concept to learn. That changed the way I do things and now we have systems for everything in the company.
Read Crossing the Chasm when you start getting traction. It's a very important book that answered a lot of questions for me.
Right now I'm reading Behind the Cloud by Benioff, and man, this book is also great. I had no clue they used a lot of fairly controversial tactics to get press and traction. It's a good read.
Okay, then how about you read the book the article was based on
> I feel like a lot of people here have this pervasive need to look down on people who made bad calls.
I mention people's predictions not to "look down" on them, but because I'm interested in predictions, especially when they contrast and discussing that.
I especially became interested in that after reading Nate Silver's book (the statistician who started FiveThirtyEight) The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail. Nate discusses at one point that people should keep better track of predictions, because otherwise you end up mostly remembering when someone was right and forgetting the times they were wrong (or vice versa). Some people become overconfident in their prediction abilities.
I am currently working in a data warehousing and business intelligence role at a bank. Aside from the basics of ETL, SQL and OLAP, I would recommend having at least a basic understanding of financial accounting. I have also found it useful to read The Data Warehousing Toolkit as well as some other Kimball books.
For entry-level work, there are two recommendations of related skill that have served me quite well to get my foot in the door and show added value: Excel and reporting.
Every institution needs reports developed and it amazes me how rare it is to find well-built reports that clearly communicate their intended information. Being able to follow a few simple guidelines for effective layout and design go a long way. Edward Tufte wrote the definitive work regarding this, but I use Stephen Few's work for more up-to-date examples.
Excel has proven itself very useful for quick ad-hoc analysis and manipulations. Also, it is a mainstay application for most financial services companies and being fluent in functions, pivot charts and VBA is quite useful.
It's difficult to make recommendations without being certain of what you actually know and what you imagine mathematics to be like. A lot of university-level mathematics is technical and requires familiarity of high-level concepts. This is in contrast to softer popular mathematics, which is more related to solving problems and contest questions. One of the things I've noted about pre-university students passionate about mathematics is that they assume that the subject is only about problem-solving and fail to take into mind the level of technical knowledge that must be learnt and memorized to be a mathematician.
If you're simply looking for problems to solve, try The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Zeitz or Problem Solving Strategies by Engel. Generally any book geared to the Olympiad or regional competitions will be alright. Here, you're not looking for a specific body of knowledge, but rather an approach to thinking and persevering when handling tough problems.
But if you're looking to learn more about 'technical' mathematics, you'll need to know the basics of numbers and sets. Numbers & Proofs by Allenby is a good introduction, using an approach that gets you to actively solve problems. Once you get past that, then you can try your hand on analysis or group theory or linear algebra or even basic graph theory. But keep in mind that with 'technical' mathematics, all knowledge is built on understanding of previous fields, so don't rush through it or you'll get discouraged by any difficulty or unfamiliarity you'll encounter.
You know those business leadership guides on behavior and such? Like for example having nice leader/tough Second in Command (or vice versa)? They actually work quite well to resolving issues before they even begin. Most of them you can get out of the 5 dysfunctions of a team.
The anime club I ran at my community college avoided a ton of drama for a quite a while even after I left because I tried to solve problems or issues before they even occurred. Unfortunately I do hear it's now a drama llama mostly because they undid all the rules and procedures I put in place years ago. Thinking and planning ahead as much as possible helps immensely. I also suggest having mechanisms/rules in place to stop one singular person from controlling the entire anime club and that includes the president/leader.
Semi-related to the engineering mindset, this is a really excellent pamphlet/book thing originally from the 60s that contains a lot of timeless advice about being a good engineer:
"The Unwritten Laws of Engineering" by W.J. King
There's a bunch of different versions of it, but here is Amazon and a complete PDF
As much as the title bothers me, (they're literally written laws!!) when I feel frustrated by homework, professors, managers, or other sources of friction in engineering, I like to pick this up and remind myself of my place in the system.
Perhaps you're referring to Philip Tetlock's work. Those people were far from mundane though; it took a specific set of habits and personality traits.
He wrote a mainstream book about it.
Answer: No.
"Tipping Point" is defined as 13-15% market penetration, as described in this video by Simon Sinek Start with Why
From the book Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
Plug in electric cars are a tiny 0.1% of the one billion cars on the world's roads by the end of 2015. So we have a LONG way to go to reach the tipping point, don't you think?
Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
makes me think about what ML/AI/DS can do and can not do. What should I be focusing on...
The Data Science Handbook: Advice and Insights from 25 Amazing Data Scientists
Good inspirations from many data scientists
If you haven’t read Malcolm Gladwell’s books those are good; he reads his own audiobooks and I like his speaking style. He also has a podcast called revisionist history that I really like.
Tetlock’s superforecasting is a bit long-winded but good; it’s a lay-person’s book on his research for IARPA (intelligence research) to improve intelligence assessments. His intro mentions Kahneman and Duckworth’s grit. I haven’t read it yet, but Nate Silver’s signal and the noise is in a similar vein to Tetlock’s book and is also recommended by IARPA.
Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind was really eye-opening to me to understand the differences in the way that liberals and conservatives (both in the political and cultural sense) view the world around them and how that affects social cohesion. He has a few TED talks if you’d like to get an idea of his research. Related, if you’re interested in an application of Kahneman’s research in politics, the Rationalizing Voter was a good book.
As a “be a better person” book, I really liked 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey (recommend it on audiobook). Particularly, unlike other business-style self-help about positive thinking and manipulating people—this book really makes you examine your core values, what’s truly important to you and gives you some tools to help refocus your efforts in those directions. Though, as I’m typing this I’m thinking about the time I’m spending on reddit and not reading the book I’ve been meaning to all night =p
If you are interested in Scrum, I'd recommend reading Software in 30 days and/or Scrum, the art of doing twice the work in half the time or at the very least, read the Scrum Guide. For agile in a larger sense, there are plenty of good books, like The Art of Agile Development or Agile with GUTS
Your question is very important. Especially for early stage or even first-time founders, who don't have the right support network yet. There are many more resources like Facebook groups, and youtube channels that you can leverage to learn more about entrepreneurship, specific skills, and industries. Let me know if you're looking for something more specific. I'd be more than happy to give you additional pointers.
 
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If you're the type of person who hates books about management babble, then you're just like me. Having said that, I did get a lot out of this one book. It's a great book for helping with team building, and it covers OP's exact topic as one of the major points.
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756
> How to discuss and compromise on decisions in a team
So, this is going to be super non-specific to TTRPGs/design work, but I cannot recommend reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team enough.
A TLDR for one of the major points of the book:
Reasonable adults don't always need to get their way but they do need to feel as if their concerns and beliefs have been listened to, considered, and addressed. This requires both trust and a team commitment to actually getting into productive conflict over contentious ideas or solutions. Without these, you're always going to have a hard time with decisions and getting the team to commit properly to them.
There is, unfortunately, no magic way to get to this point. You have to work together and build these relationships and behaviors. If you know a silver bullet, I'm all ears.
amazon - $15
some of it
Unwritten Laws of Engineering definitely helps you understand, and transition into, your professional role.
*edit: I guess it has engineering in the title, but there's no math! I swear.
Read this and you'll "get it" Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Besides Lean startup, I would go for:
Business Model Generation - to layout your ideas first and have a feeling of your to be business model (on their site you can get a sneak peek for free https://strategyzer.com/books/business-model-generation)
The startup owner's manual, from Steve Blank (https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Step-Step-Building-Company/dp/0984999302)
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: (https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Entrepreneurship-Steps-Successful-Startup/dp/1118692284)
good luck
Have you guys validated your idea? Do you have hundreds or thousands of people who already gave you feedback that they would put down money for your idea?
If you don't have validation yet, that is the number one thing I would say you need to get. If I had to recommend three books for you to hold close by your side, they would be:
Also, don't become the Winklevoss twins!
Here are my top three:
You may want to read them in reverse order (3, 2, 1) as Steve Blank influenced Eric Reis who influenced Ash Maurya -- but I really think Running Lean has more practical / applicable insights.
I've talked with more than 100 companies (startups, dev/design shops, and enterprise cos) about how they do user research/testing (even started working on a startup related to it). There are 2 types of companies:
The companies who do it best right now have week long sprints where the last couple of days (or early days the following week) are dedicated to testing with users. Jake Knapp at Google Ventures wrote an awesome how-to (http://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/150112174X).
Basically the summary of my research is this: either dedicate a day or two exclusively to talking to users, or its not going to be a part of the process.
If you are going for a internet business or any product-oriented business here a are the best books
BEST ONES
"The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses" (Eric Reis) - 2011
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898/
"Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works" (Ash Maurya) - 2010
https://www.amazon.com/Running-Lean-Iterate-Plan-Works/dp/1449305172
"Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days" (Jake Knapp - Google Ventures) - 2016
https://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/150112174X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1550802301&s=gateway&sr=8-1
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ALSO GO FOR (these are the ones that started organizing the Startup world)
"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" (Steve Blank) - 2005
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989200507/
"Business Model Generation" (Alexander Osterwalder) - 2008
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417/
Eu ja respondi o seguinte, e fui sincero:
"Eu sou focado em obtenção de resultado - pra entregar o resultado, se eu tiver que atropelar o sistema, eu o faço."
Ou em outras palavras:
"Se eu acredito que eu estou certo, eu tomo o risco, executo e lido com as consequências."
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Esse é um perfil adequado pra area comercial por exemplo - e péssimo pra uma área que deve seguir à risca o protocolo como produção ou controle de qualidade..
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a maioria das qualidades está ligada com alguma espécie de contra-partida com cara de defeito dependendo do ponto de vista.
Ex: essa característica minha de foco em entrega de resultado geralmente é associada com independência, ou questionar as regras/ desobedecer / insubordinação.
Ou uma pessoa muito forte de relacionamentos (boa em cultivar relacionamento), conciliadora, teamplayer, tende a ceder muito, não ser tão agressiva, ter dificuldades em dizer não, e não ser tão focada em resultado - perfil ideal pra gerente de conta estratégica em relação de longo prazo.
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a recomendação é ser sincero - tem lugar pra todo quanto é tipo de perfil.
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e eu recomendo fazer um teste pra identificar teus pontos fortes e consequentemente entender melhor quais são seus pontos fracos.
Tem um teste/livro chamado strenght finder 2.0
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edit: legal ir preparado pra essa pergunta - ela mede muito o grau de maturidade do entrevistado também.
Either this or this make a good starter set.
For books, I highly recommend Practical Lockpicking; Deviant Ollam. Read that cover to cover, and you'll have a strong foundation to start on.
If you want a good re-keyable practice lock, I like this one, personally. Get the 6 pin, non-cutaway, Kwik-set version.
Steve Blank's The Startup Owner's Manual is pretty darn good in my opinion.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-By-Step/dp/0984999302
Soon though I hope you'll be able to use our product at http://bootstra.ps
If you want to sign up to get a notification when we go live we would love to hear how your experience is trying to make this happen. Our primary goal is to try to help lower the barriers to entry for others into entrepreneurship.
I'd recommend reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257
http://www.bdbanalytics.ir/media/1123/storytelling-with-data-cole-nussbaumer-knaflic.pdf
and
https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/0961392142
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The graphs don't follow best practices and could use some work to more clearly communicate your goal.
Bar charts should not be center aligned like that, unless 0 on the x axis cuts directly through them (ie if they show positive and negative values simultaneously)
Here are a few:
Elements of User Experience, Jesse James Garret: What a typical experience design process is made up of.
Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge: Seminal thoughts on Interaction Design, holds up to this day
Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug: One of the first books to gave the issues of IA and UX design a human, customer point of view.
About Face, Alan Cooper: Another take on the whole process, dives a bit deeper into every stage than Garret's book.
Designing For The Digital Age, Kim Goodwin: Human-centered digital products
Sprint, Jake Knapp: A condensed prototyping methodology
100 Things To Know About People, Susan Weinschenk: How people think
There are a few more Product Design related books I recommended in another thread.
IDEO's design thinking methodologies are also a great resource:
Design Kit, A book and toolkit about human centered design
Circular Design, A guide for holistic design, organization friendly.
Cheers
There is a fascinating book called "Sprint" that was written by two of the heads of Google Ventures that talks about this little robot and how they worked with this startup to come up with the cute "yaye" noise. It's a really cool read.
I nominated Strengths Finder 2.0 because I was reminded of it while reading this sub's last book, Mastery - specifically, the second "Strategy for Attaining Mastery": "Play to your strengths", in which Greene tells Albert Einstein's and Temple Grandin's stories, emphasizing how each of them leveraged their strengths to great effect.
EDIT: Upon further research into Strengths Finder 2.0, it looks like those of us who typically check books out from the library may be somewhat out of luck in this case, as to take full advantage of the book's content you should take a self-assessment that's only available if you buy a new copy of the book or purchase it online for $15. The work-around is to read the book's descriptions of the 34 types and assess your own strengths, then follow the book's advice - or try this knockoff test.
I also voted for The Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth because it interests me and seems useful. I didn't vote for the other books because they seem less immediately applicable to my situation, though I'm basing these judgments on the descriptions above and Amazon reviews.
No matter what gets picked, I look forward to reading and discussing it with you all!
I can't cite an exact source, but data scientist Seth Stephen-Davidowitz (author of Everybody Lies, one of my favorite books of 2017) has pointed out that the two most common Google searches coupled with "how to buy Bitcoin" are "how to get rich quickly" and "what is Bitcoin?." It seems to me that, while likely more valuable than a fiat currency inflated to serve special interests (rant, sorry), Bitcoin could have value as a market-determined currency like gold or silver, but not now. People are looking to get rich and that will cause it to crash.
One of my favorite not-super-technical books that can give some insights into the thought process and actionability of analytics and machine learning is "Everybody Lies". https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856
It touches on a concept I really like to rely on data for which is revealed vs. stated intent. People tell you they want what they wish they wanted. Data tells you what they actually want and how they actually behave. There are some good intuitive regression models in there as well.
Scrum is a form of Agile.
Having a team come in to teach Scrum is ok. I did that once. However, I got a lot more out of this book: https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534645X
The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Kimball and Ross is a pretty good resource. He goes a bit overboard with the complexity in some of his industry examples, but he's probably used to implementing with large teams of programmers. The concepts and methods are great though and should be in the toolkit of anyone developing reporting systems.
Hi, here I will post some great books, some free (by Santos), some not (others).
Junior problem seminar: Santos
Number Theory for Mathematical contests: Santos
The Art and Craft of Problem solving: Zeitz
Problem-Solving Strategies: Engel
Mathematical Olympiad Treasures: Andreescu, Enescu
Mathematical Olympiad challenges: Andreescu, Gelca
Problems from the book: Andreescu
Those are more or less the "general" books, they always contain the main topics of mathematical olympiads, they usually aren't focused on just one topic, for one-topic books see here: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=319&t=405377
>Evolution is the essential manifestation of war.
I think there are those who would dispute that claim, here's one:
https://www.amazon.com/Nonzero-Logic-Destiny-Robert-Wright/dp/0679758941
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>In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of feudalism.
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Linky for anyone else who is interested: http://www.amazon.com/Nonzero-The-Logic-Human-Destiny/dp/0679758941
Buy her a copy of The Founder's Dilemmas. It is a very well-written study from Harvard Business Review about how and why all the things happening at your girlfriend's company lead to disaster.
As an engineer, it blows my mind that so many engineers are so terrible at business.
How to be part of a team and lead a team.
There's one book to read - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
I read this book, and it opened up my eyes. Working as part of a team is THE most valuable thing I've learned.
Everything starts w/ making a good product
Marketing
Don't have a "leaky bucket"
In normal words: make sure ppl who install your game have a good experience right away and come back. Set up analytics so you can track this. If you are failing, work on the game and don't market yet. You should watch all of these free Y Combinator online startup classes, but #6 is most relevant here.
Design the game to be viral
This is where you've got it easier than normal apps, games can be designed to share and engage other users. I recommend reading Hooked for ideas on how to build a habit forming app that ppl will want to share. NOTE: annoying tricks don't work and no one wants that.
Crossing the Chasm is less relevant to a game but an insightful classic on the old "how do I develop a market for a technology product".
All of these strategy require focused and consistent effort to have a chance. I'm in the same boat you are so hopefully we can make something happen :)
BTW I'd be happy to share my notes on all these books if ppl are interested.
Honestly start-up 101: if you ARE NOT marketing to a niche, you are doing it 100% wrong! Read Crossing the Chasm for more info. Still relevant and true.
True about sales - no product ever sold itself and "build it and they will come" has never been a reality.
Selling a brand - well up to a point. Selling a brand without a product is worse than selling a product without brand. The best case: sell both!
Unfortunately, I don't have an easy direct source. The assertion was made by Seth Stephens, a former Google Data Scientist that had access to massive amounts of data. It was cited in his book Everybody Lies though if someone here knows how to pull Google search history by zip code/county it can be confirmed or discredited.
He is a statistician and analyst who wrote a pretty good and very accessible book called The Signal and the Noise
How about Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise or Sharon Bertsch McGrayne's The Theory that Would not die? Both good books about statistics/data science.
https://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail-but/dp/0143125087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538957790&sr=8-1&keywords=the+signal+and+the+noise
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050QB3EQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
NWS is one of the sources for raw data, but they have their own forecast algorithms. Nate Silver did a lengthy piece on weather forecasting in The Signal and the Noise, which discussed how for profit forecasting services tend to skew the forecast depending on their advertisers since it's a game of probability.
You should take a look at Nate Silver's book "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't".
It explains exactly what you're talking about in intense detail.
According to this this book, there's going to be a population crash (which is already starting in some countries like Russia and Japan).
Our taxes will go up to support our elderly people, but we'll be making more money because labor will be in short supply. Housing will get cheaper, but services will become more expensive, again because of the labor shortage. We'll also stop trying to keep immigrants out and start trying to attract them to help make up the gap.
If you still have some cash leftover after helping out with the other requests, I would love to have this book used would be fine.
Edit: Or this one :)
Really dig STRATFOR. I also recommend "The Next 100 Years" for an expansion of those ideas, written by the same fellow.
http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/data-warehousing.html : A very good introduction to data warehousing and the star schema in particular.
http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210883123&sr=8-1 : the second thing you should read -- more detail and specific examples of gotchas and schema design for particular business scenarios.
http://blog.oaktonsoftware.com/2007_06_01_archive.html -- the third thing to read. this gets into at least the terminology for some of the weirdo stuff you have to deal with in the OLAP world -- snapshot values in a supposed cube with rollups, for e.g.
Hmm I look at it this way. Indeed morality is simply a product of the human mind, and this is exactly what makes it objective. And I don't mean like "I think this is right, therefore it is". It is bigger than that. Morality is real, natural and objective the same way water is wet and planets are things. There isn't anything wet individual H2O molecules. Yet through their interaction a property we call 'wet' is presented. The same goes for planets. They are really just big balls of elementary particles. But it doesn’t help anyone to think of it this way. There are still laws like Newton’s law of gravitation that describe how planets work. This is the idea behind reductionism. While things are really made out of ever smaller parts (until you hit quantum mechanics), it is still useful to describe reality at higher levels of generalization.
For morality the same works in two steps (ending the line of reduction down at the human individual). Imagine two strangers meeting each other. They both need medical attention due to a civil war. Now the other could provide the medical attention but also pose a threat. When these people interact one of two things can happen. Either they cooperate or they oppose each other (cooperate/defect in the Prisoners Dilemma as it is called in game theory and economics). Now when people oppose each other nothing really changes compared to when they didn't interact with each other. All participants are still selfishly trying to achieve their own goals regardless of anything or anyone else. But when they cooperate something new is created. A unit of several individuals that works together towards a common goal. This unit of people is similar to water being wet. But this is not morality yet. This is more like selfish cooperation.
The difference lies in the fact that humans can do one thing that water molecules can't. And that is reproduce, both sexually and intellectually (by changing other people’s minds they in effect let you copy a part of you, namely your thoughts, into them). This gives rise to a second level of effects due to evolutionary theory. We find that there is another more general way to look at human behaviour that can be described using scientific laws just like planets can. Not only do people sometimes cooperate, but whenever they do they also generate profit. In fact they generate more profit compared to when they had worked alone. The only additional route to this is in a perfectly competitive market, but as anyone who has taken econ 101 may remember there are at least 12 separate conditions that need to be fulfilled in order for this to work. Making cooperation the dominant mechanism by which people become rich.* Because cooperation=profit there is a force acting towards individuals, small groups of people and societies to cooperate more with each other. There is ample evidence for this (see for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Morality is therefore (at least in my mind) the tendency for more cooperative societies* to grow and flourish while societies which exploit, oppress, oppose each other and their members are retarded, stagnant or collapse.
From this follows what I think of as objective morality. In societies where no cooperation at all takes place society is destroyed, civilization collapses, and humanity is reduced to a collection of wandering individuals constantly trying to survive and kill each other (basically an unending version of the Purge but more extreme). In society where everyone cooperates to rationally find the best solution to bring everyone happiness, individuals live longer and the amount of suffering, pain and death is minimized/eliminated. I would call the first Evil and the second Good but really I don't have to because humanity as a whole has already done this by. Words are defined by the majority of opinions after all (Luckily regardless of what name we give this phenomenon the effect remains real).
Incidentally these 12 conditions basically never occur so whenever someone says “the market will solve everything” I recommend to take a very very close look at what they are actually proposing.
**In the sense of the prisoners dilemma not the communistic/socialistic sense. The communists didn't in fact base their society on the community but on the communist party. And everyone else got kicked into the dirt.
I found the book nonzero to be similar in scope to Guns, Germs, and Steel, meaning the whole of human history, but a very different way of looking at things.
Read them both.
The Foundation Bible of starting an MSP: Managed Services in a Month by Karl Palachuk Amazon Link
I'll also throw a vote in for Traction as a general business book.
And my personal people/team management bible that I bring into every company I work with: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Amazon Link
This is my favorite book on team building. http://www.amazon.com/The-Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership/dp/0787960756
It contains some great lessons about how to address these issues, as they are generally indicative of deeper problems w/in the organization, rather than just with the meetings themselves.
I’d like to recommend “Unwritten laws of engineering”. Great little book detailing workplace dynamics, accountability, and how to be an integral part of an engineering department. Here’s the amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Laws-Engineering-Revised-Updated/dp/0791801624?crid=1MCO22MGNU72H&keywords=unwritten+laws+of+engineering&qid=1536126994&sprefix=unwritten+&sr=8-1&ref=mp_s_a_1_1
Further reading/research: (Not all of which I've gotten to read yet. Some of which may be quite tangentially relevant to the discussion at hand along with the books and sites I mentioned above. Consider this more a list of books pertaining to the history of technology, machining, metrology, some general science and good engineering texts.)
Dan Gelbart's Youtube Channel
Engineerguy's Youtube Channel
Nick Mueller's Youtube Channel
mrpete222/tubalcain's youtube channel
Tom Lipton (oxtools) Youtube Channel
Suburban Tool's Youtube Channel
NYCNC's Youtube Channel
Computer History Museum's Youtube Channel
History of Machine Tools, 1700-1910 by Steeds
Studies in the History of Machine Tools by Woodbury
A History of Machine Tools by Bradley
Tools for the Job: A History of Machine Tools to 1950 by The Science Museum
A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume
Tools and Machines by Barnard
The Testing of Machine Tools by Burley
Modern machine shop tools, their construction, operation and manipulation, including both hand and machine tools: a book of practical instruction by Humphrey & Dervoort
Machine-Shop Tools and Methods by Leonard
A Measure of All Things: The Story of Man and Measurement by Whitelaw
Handbook of Optical Metrology: Principles and Applications by Yoshizawa
Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon by Gray
Machine Shop Training Course Vol 1 & 2 by Jones
A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982
Numerical Control: Making a New Technology by Reintjes
History of Strength of Materials by Timoshenko
Rust: The Longest War by Waldman
The Companion Reference Book on Dial and Test Indicators: Based on our popular website www.longislandindicator.com by Meyer
Optical Shop Testing by Malacara
Lost Moon: The Preilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Lovell and Kruger
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Johnson & Smith
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Rich & Janos
Unwritten Laws of Engineering by King
Advanced Machine Work by Smith
Accurate Tool Work by Goodrich
Optical Tooling, for Precise Manufacture and Alignment by Kissam
The Martian: A Novel by Weir
Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Young Budynas & Sadegh
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by Ashby
Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer by Shute
Cosmos by Sagan
Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners and Plumbing Handbook by Smith Carol Smith wrote a number of other great books such as Engineer to Win.
Tool & Cutter Sharpening by Hall
Handbook of Machine Tool Analysis by Marinescu, Ispas & Boboc
The Intel Trinity by Malone
Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals by Thompson
A Handbook on Tool Room Grinding
Tolerance Design: A Handbook for Developing Optimal Specifications by Creveling
Inspection and Gaging by Kennedy
Precision Engineering by Evans
Procedures in Experimental Physics by Strong
Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes or How They Did it in the 1870's by Dick
Flextures: Elements of Elastic Mechanisms by Smith
Precision Engineering by Venkatesh & Izman
Metal Cutting Theory and Practice by Stephenson & Agapiou
American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910 by Cope As mentioned in the above post, Kennth Cope did a series of books on early machine tool builders. This is one of them.
Shop Theory by Henry Ford Trade Shop
Learning the lost Art of Hand Scraping: From Eight Classic Machine Shop Textbooks A small collection of articles combined in one small book. Lindsay Publications was a smallish company that would collect, reprint or combine public domain source material related to machining and sell them at reasonable prices. They retired a few years ago and sold what rights and materials they had to another company.
How Round Is Your Circle?: Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet by Bryant & Sangwin
Machining & CNC Technology by Fitzpatrick
CNC Programming Handbook by Smid
Machine Shop Practice Vol 1 & 2 by Moltrecht
The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles A fantastic book with tons of free online material, labs, and courses built around it. This book could take a 6th grader interested in learning, and teach them the fundamentals from scratch to design a basic computer processor and programming a simple OS etc.
Bosch Automotive Handbook by Bosch
Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots by Biagiotti & Melchiorri
The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals by Zhu, Zienkiewicz and Taylor
Practical Treatise on Milling and Milling Machines by Brown & Sharpe
Grinding Technology by Krar & Oswold
Principles of Precision Engineering by Nakazawa & Takeguchi
Foundations of Ultra-Precision Mechanism Design by Smith
I.C.S. Reference Library, Volume 50: Working Chilled Iron, Planer Work, Shaper and Slotter Work, Drilling and Boring, Milling-Machine Work, Gear Calculations, Gear Cutting
I. C. S. Reference Library, Volume 51: Grinding, Bench, Vise, and Floor Work, Erecting, Shop Hints, Toolmaking, Gauges and Gauge Making, Dies and Die Making, Jigs and Jig Making
and many more ICS books on various engineering, technical and non-technical topics.
American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book of Machine-Shop and Drawing-Room Data, Methods and Definitions, Seventh Edition by Colvin & Stanley
Modern Metal Cutting: A Practical Handbook by Sandvik
Mechanical Behavior of Materials by Dowling
Engineering Design by Dieter and Schmidt
[Creative Design of Products and Systems by Saeed]()
English and American Tool Builders by Roe
Machine Design by Norton
Control Systems by Nise
That doesn't include some random books I've found when traveling and visiting used book stores. :)
> I keep mentioning a surprise to the upside, but no one wants to listen because apparently only 3 sigmas can happen to the downside (to an asset class with a historical tilt very much to the upside).
Is it POSSIBLE? Yes. Is it PROBABLE? No. It comes across as wishful thinking more than anything. That's not an investment strategy.
> But to me, there's just as much risk in being underweight equities right now, leaving purchasing power on the table
All (Western) sovereign bond yields for as far as the eye can see point to deflation, not inflation, so the purchasing power argument is moot, unless you're going to claim greater insight than the bond market.
> and perhaps missing a financial goal or two, as there is involved for anyone "expecting" somewhat similar historical risk-adjusted returns.
I'm not sure if FOMO is a legitimate argument for being fully invested. I think you underestimate the sophistication of both the models and posters advocating low forward returns. This isn't the 1960s where we still think the Phillips curve will hold, there HAS been substantial progress in econometrics and forecasting over the past 70 years.
Let me explain it another way.
If you throw a dice, I'll give you a prediction of 83% chance that you won't roll 6.
If you roll 6, my prediction was still valid.
There is no "making up for it". You simply cannot tell by just one outcome.
I highly recommend this book to read up more on the subject:
https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction-Philip-Tetlock/dp/0804136718
Oh, and btw, so that nobody thinks I'm biased. I personally hate Augur :)
I've read about 50-60 books on marketing and I can boil down everything you need to know about marketing in these two articles and one book:
I recently read the (old) book The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, and it provides an interesting lens in which to view this landscape.
First of all, there is a lot of emphasis on being first in a market. Soylent is obviously the perfect example of this. They were first, and in many ways this is more valuable in a business sense than other measures of product quality. Soylent, you could say, has become the "Kleenex" of powdered foods - its name is synonymous with the category. Really, it has done what all new businesses would love to do - invent its own category in which to be first, a category with enormous growth potential and no competition. Soylent is the first powdered food, not the newest alternative to Ensure.
Many would-be competitors have sprung up, attempting to be Soylent, with little differentiating them other than availability outside the US (or even availability inside the US, for that matter!). However, one in particular has distinguished itself as a worthy competitor, in a business sense: Joylent.
Instead of trying to copy Soylent exactly, Joylent does an excellent job of positioning itself as "just like Soylent, but opposite" - with flavors in response to Soylent's monolithic blandness, with irreverence and humor in response to Soylent's sterile, clinical seriousness, but with, at the core, a product that is almost indistinguishable in how it is intended to be used and what it means to provide. This is an excellent strategy for reaching a sustainable second place in response to an overwhelming number one - it is Pepsi's response to the dominance of Coca-Cola, for example. And number two in a growing market with unlimited potential is not a bad place to be. Especially if number one happens to stumble somewhere along the way.
For the rest, and I would argue that means everyone other than Soylent or Joylent, the strategy that remains is for each to grab a unique point of differentiation, each with its own niche that it can be identified and known for. To chase after Soylent and Joylent at this point would be foolish. Instead, we can choose one word or concept to own and excel in. For example, who will own the word ketosis? I would argue that a clear winner has not yet emerged here. Or weight-loss? Or even taste or flavor? (Or, dare I say it, cheap?)
Or for an obvious example, it seems that my own Custom Body Fuel owns the word custom within this reddit community, but to be honest I'm not convinced that it is as valuable a word to own at this point as it may seem from the outside. The subset of people who really need customization is a very small subset of an already small niche market, and the operational infrastructure needed to address this niche at scale is still beyond my grasp.
The holy grail, of course, would be to create yet another new category within and yet beyond "powdered foods" in some sense, in which to be the first and best, like Soylent. I don't know yet what that may be (it may be many things) or whether anyone here will come upon it, but it's worth thinking about.
Definitely look into bussiness management books as well. if you are going down this road, there is a chance you will want to start doing it on your own and having proper business skills will help tremendously in securing work, and balancing costs, and making money doing it! I am sure some people on this sub can recommend some great books on this topic as well.
Here are a couple books,
https://www.amazon.ca/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417/ref=sr_1_1?gclid=Cj0KCQjw5MLrBRClARIsAPG0WGxuwhyo-18J3-xPOVP8bXeTJ4zbGZHkpO4GqIGKlz-WCRxt3aUroqQaApECEALw_wcB&hvadid=229992601126&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9000745&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=4412519744533501821&hvtargid=aud-748919244907%3Akwd-297504215686&hydadcr=16960_10238137&keywords=business+model+generation&qid=1567691052&s=gateway&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.ca/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3/141-1005106-2495725?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0307887898&pd_rd_r=3ef234c3-168a-4156-bb6b-32f1e4f1ecca&pd_rd_w=PEqJa&pd_rd_wg=P882W&pf_rd_p=a62e2918-d998-4bbb-8337-35aac776e851&pf_rd_r=RMAX7VQZE9TKPTQ2SM8H&psc=1&refRID=RMAX7VQZE9TKPTQ2SM8H
https://www.amazon.ca/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step/dp/0984999302/ref=pd_sbs_14_3/141-1005106-2495725?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0984999302&pd_rd_r=3ef234c3-168a-4156-bb6b-32f1e4f1ecca&pd_rd_w=Oruqz&pd_rd_wg=P882W&pf_rd_p=f7748194-d8e0-4460-84c0-2789668108bc&pf_rd_r=RMAX7VQZE9TKPTQ2SM8H&psc=1&refRID=RMAX7VQZE9TKPTQ2SM8H
https://www.amazon.ca/Business-Model-You-One-Page-Reinventing/dp/1118156315/ref=pd_sbs_14_4/141-1005106-2495725?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1118156315&pd_rd_r=3ef234c3-168a-4156-bb6b-32f1e4f1ecca&pd_rd_w=Oruqz&pd_rd_wg=P882W&pf_rd_p=f7748194-d8e0-4460-84c0-2789668108bc&pf_rd_r=RMAX7VQZE9TKPTQ2SM8H&psc=1&refRID=RMAX7VQZE9TKPTQ2SM8H
Hello, I'm an entrepreneur too and I code things for myself and for friends' projects. There is no "good rule of thumb", it depends on how willing are you to accept that the more you share about the idea, the better the feedback you get. Better feedback = faster iteration from a crap idea to one that works. I advice you to read this book called the startup owner's manual. It has helped me understand this idea better - http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-By-Step/dp/0984999302
Regarding the developer... A potential hire can't understand what you want to build, and won't bother dropping everything he is doing (most likely exciting projects too) to help you if you can't share the intimate details of how you are going to change the world. Just go ahead and tell him what you are trying to do and how he can help. Show him why you two can make good money together.
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals.
This one was super helpful when i transitioned from ops to using that data to create visualization and reports.
Not mathematical, but Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119002257/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_WhB.AbRPZ14ET
Is a good start to communicating results and really easy to understand. Almost mind blowing how much I was missing previously.
I'm not a UX designer, but I have a psych background and have dabbled in UX as a business owner/developer.
As others have mentioned, it can definitely be a good fit. A psych education will help you more intuitively understand the cognitive and emotional processes that users go through when interacting with a product, and it also gives you a leg up on the research side.
A UX designer that I worked with recommended reading up on Google's design methodology. Specifically, he recommended the book Sprint which outlines their framework in detail.
First, I wasn't being pedantic. To me, it seemed like you neglected to mention an obvious flaw in your argument about the use of the word 'exponential.' It's actually kind of important that people understand exponential growth includes exponents less than two. You can read a whole book about why it's important here.
Second, you're trying to make a point that is ultimately your subjective opinion. "Language is about conveying meaning, not exact correctness." What? Says who? Which contexts? Why can't it be both? What's wrong with being precise with the words we use? Source please. As someone with a career in the social sciences, your comment hurt to read.
Finally, relax. I wasn't personally attacking you in that last comment. I was being genuine and expressing curiosity about your comment. However, you sound like an uptight asshole. If you can't handle some benign intellectual feedback, maybe don't post on Reddit.
What an odd coincidence... I just started reading this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainability-Organisms/dp/1594205582
I got this book at work.. There's a code for an online questionnaire that produces 5 strengths that are unique to you.
I thought that it would be like some lame free internet quiz but the 5 strengths and descriptions it spit out were incredibly spot on. It might not say "Be a doctor!" or "Be an archeologist!" but knowing what your strengths are will help you assess careers and how they would fit with your unique strengths. You'll be happier when you chose a career that you can excel in :)
I think there are many "flavors" of introverts... I found it very helpful to understand where are my strengths and what kind of activities doesn't really fit me. I got it from the StrengthsFinder book (http://amzn.to/2jPC57Z) and afterwards intentionally directed my career choices towards my strongest capabilities.
So far so good :-)
Good luck!
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Penetration/dp/1597499897/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1472750161&sr=8-7&keywords=lock+picking
That's a decent book. I bought a copy and read a bit but never bought the tools and locks to practice.
You can get a really basic pick set from a site like SouthOrd.
My first set was their Pagoda set: http://www.southord.com/Lock-Pick-Tools/Lock-Pick-Set-Pagoda-Metal-Handles-BPXS-12.html
What that made me realize was at my skill level I only really use the short hook and S-rake.
Beyond that I was having issues getting my head around the theory of the inner workings, even with the videos available. I tend to learn really well academically so I picked up "Practical Lock Picking": https://smile.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Penetration/dp/1597499897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501560843&sr=8-1&keywords=practical+lock+picking
From there I picked up a few padlocks at garage sales, then ordered some specifically tiered towards the belt ranking setup here, and I've found them very progressive and enjoyable.
I actually reached out to some friends about 3D printing gear so I can do tear downs (I've got my Master 931 picked pretty well, I just need to tear it down for my next rank and don't want to lose everything).
Spend what you're comfortable spending (you wont be pick bound for fun or skill initially, at least I haven't been thus far), and follow the progression theories posted here, they've done really well by me.
Most importantly:
Don't fiddle with locks that aren't yours, even if you start realizing how much of the world is barred merely by a Master No3.
Don't fiddle with locks that you rely on for protection.
If you plan on carrying around gear verify your local laws.
Good luck and have fun, I'm really enjoying it so far.
Many people mistakenly think that just because they're good at social media that they will be good at social media marketing. It's an entirely different beast.
Do you have any experience in branding or marketing basics? You need to be able to create strategic briefs, messaging guides, create and effectively track goals that will solve your client's pain points.
Recommended books:
Ogilvy on Advertising
22 Immutable Laws of Branding
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
After that I would learn more about content marketing. How to create good, compelling stories that not only engages the brand's followers but stores that legitimately helps them as well.
Blogs to subscribe to:
Content Marketing Institute
Hubspot
*CMI also had a podcast called PNR that is a great way to keep up on latest news, trends and predictions. I recommend subscribing to it.
Speaking of blogs, consider including them as part of your content strategy. They make easy fodder for social posts and drive traffic to the client website.
A few final things to note:
That's about all I got for now. Lemme know if you have any questions.
A few recommendations:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601630328/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (Ca$hvertising)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887306667/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (the 22 immutable laws of marketing)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591845335/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (Seth Godin)
There's too many to name. There's not really a lot that pack so much punch that they're more important than getting your hands dirty and doing.
And I have these in my list on amazon. Would love to get some opinions on them:
 
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
 
Secrets of a Freelance Writer: How to Make $100,000 a Year or More
by Robert Bly
 
Words that Sell
by Richard Bayan
 
Tested Advertising Methods
by Caples and Hahn
 
Writing That Works
by Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson
 
Confessions of an Advertising Man
by David Ogilvy
 
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
by Al Ries and Jack Trout
 
The Robert Collier Letter Book
by Robert Collier
 
Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose
by Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
 
Letting Go of the Words
by Janice (Ginny) Redish
 
Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers
by Harold Evans
 
Can I Change Your Mind?: The Craft and Art of Persuasive Writing
by Lindsay Camp
 
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
by Roy Peter Clark
 
Read Me: 10 Lessons for Writing Great Copy
by Roger Horberry and Gyles Lingwood
 
Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads
by Luke Sullivan
 
WRITE IN STEPS: The super simple book writing method
by Ian Stables
 
On Writing Well
by William Zinsser
 
The Wealthy Freelancer
by Steve Slaunwhite, Pete Savage and Ed Gandia
 
Write Everything Right!
by Denny Hatch
 
The Secret of Selling Anything
by Harry Browne
 
The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
by Chris Murray
 
On Writing
by Stephen King
 
Writing for the Web
by Lynda Felder
 
Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
by Ann Handley
 
This book will teach you how to write better
by Neville Medhora
Try The Startup Owner's Manual by Steve Blank (http://steveblank.com/)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-By-Step/dp/0984999302/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410097542&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Startup+Owner%27s+Manual%3A
I wish you best of luck with the endeavour. A few suggestions
Starting your own thing is hard but is well worth the effort. Again, wish you best of luck!
Checkout the Startup Owner's Manual!.
Here are all the books with amazon links, Alphabetical order :)
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I don't think that's really necessary. Take a look at other people's vizzes, take a look at what's catching on, and hang out in /r/dataisbeautiful.
I really suggest this book... it talks about how to build visualizations to efficiently tell a story: https://smile.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537148459&sr=1-1 -- it helped me a ton to build better dashboards.
Also when you're talking about "fancying up" dashboards, it's easy to go overboard. I know that when me and my other colleagues started doing Tableau, we stuck graphs and charts on dashboards and used loud colors just because we thought it looked "cool" but they were just distractions that took away from the story you're trying to tell with the data.
there are a few really great resources that were mentioned already.
I found Tufte books a little bit abstract and more geared toward data visualization philosophy and not as practical as some of the other resources out there in terms of creating interactive, business-focused data visualizations. While I really like them, it may not be the first ones you grab.
I highly recommend books and blogs by these people---all but Stephen Few are active on Twitter (bolding the highest 3 recommendations):
Stephen Few:
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic:
Stephanie Evergreen:
Alberto Cairo:
There’s also a book that covers this the topic of common patterns in nature, and goes into depth on how it applies to organisms of all sizes. Extremely interesting:
https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainability-Organisms/dp/1594205582
The answer seems to be “when working in 3 dimensions, there’s efficient ways to do things, so natural selection will tend towards them over time.“
For example, if there’s two ways to construct a circulatory system, moving the same amount of blood, but one moves blood with less energy, this frees up energy for reproductive activities, providing an advantage to that organism.
But these “laws of 3D construction” apply not just to veins/arteries, but to your brain, trees, and even cities’ sewers and power cables.
It’s all about efficient networks co-living in a single “organism”
Not exactly what you want, but this book talks about complex systems and how we are really bad at trying to replicate them. It talks about cities, the economy and biology. Kinda why I find it hard to think any planned economy would work as well as letting it mostly handle itself and fixing it when required.
https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainability-Organisms/dp/1594205582
A good place to start for fundamental principles is Geoffrey West and biological scaling laws, which generalize to other systems as well, such as cities.
Check out his book.
He's also done a podcast with Sean Carroll.
There are less deaths but tissue damage has remained within expected bounds. We just have faster, better healthcare.
Edit: according to a book I read.
Yes. The size of "invariant components" like cells set a limit on how small things can be. But cells are not the only component for which that is true. When it comes to mammals, the more important limiting factor is the circulatory system - mainly the size of the capillaries. The smallest mammal is the Etruscan shrew. And this is basically the smallest a mammal can be in theory. When you shrink a mammalian circulatory system smaller than a shrew's it becomes wildly inefficient. So mammals have never evolved to be smaller, even when it could have provided other advantages.
The circulatory system is also the reason why the blue whale is pretty much the biggest possible mammal. If they get any bigger, the space between capillaries becomes too large, and cells start to starve of oxygen.
There is an interesting book called Scale that goes into this topic is detail.
A few years ago, they made everyone at work read a copy of "Strengths Finder," and then go to a training class. The gist is that you need to find a job that you're good at, that the company needs someone to do, and that won't drive you crazy. And no one else is going to find it FOR you.
https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X/
I thought the whole thing was blindingly obvious, and couldn't understand why people liked it so much. It got so confusing that I asked a stranger next to me in the training "Isn't this obvious? Why do people have to be told to balance those three things?" He got huffy and said "Well, I don't know about YOU, but I do what my boss TELLS me to do," like he was laying down a winning hand. Don't be that guy!
I met a lot of people in college who were studying something they liked, without asking if anyone was hiring for that job. And I know people who took jobs they didn't like, and ended up burning out and quitting.
So just start making lists. What are you good at? What do you like to do? And search the job listings - what's hiring? Pick something that ticks all three boxes.
Depending on what your goals for the teambuilding exercises are, personality inventories can be useful.
In my previous job we had about 12 librarians. We used Strengthsfinder and I think our team got some useful information out of it.
If you're just looking to improve/strengthen the camaraderie, then I'd recommend doing a field trip together. We spent a morning visiting a museum, had a nice lunch (luckily covered by our staff development budget), and had a great time.
These books combined with the eBooks / resources in the stickied post will keep you busy for the next 10 years or so.
From this Amazon listing stating "Publication Date: October 8, 2012", and talking with Deviant on Twitter.
This, his second book (on bypassing locks WITH a key) on "the topics of impressioning, master key escalation, skeleton keys, and bumping attacks", also comes out shortly.
This one was mentioned in another post a week or so ago: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Penetration/dp/1597499897.
SouthOrd offers one called Easy Pickings with a few of their sets too. I've seen that one and it gives a very basic overview of locks and techniques to pick them. Much less information than can be found in the PDFs.
There is a ton of info in the sidebar. The wiki is your friend on free materials.
I highly recommend Lockpicking - Detail Overkill. The Author /u/derpserf used to poke his head in this sub a while back. Really in depth shit. (he would want me to use an expletive)
As far as printed media, I am a huge fan of Deviant Ollam. (Disclaimer: I have hung out with him at Defcon and have a bit of a man crush). He is a super nice guy who is very passionate about teaching what he loves to do. His two books (one about [picking and how locks operate(http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Edition/dp/1597499897) and another on impressioning & bypass methods) are awesome.
Hope that helps.
Edit: added links
His book looks pretty good too. (I haven't read it, but I've heard from others that it's very helpful, explains things in plain english, and is pretty humorous, which makes sense if you've ever met him or listened to one of his talks):
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Edition/dp/1597499897/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1345646056&sr=8-3&keywords=deviant+ollam
I would recommend picking Master locks to start - Like this They're ridiculously easy to pick, and you'll be able to get a good handle on manipulating single pins and even basic raking.
ITS Tactical generally has some pretty informative posts on lock picking/locksport from time to time. I would recommend these to get started:
Lastly this book is absolutely worth every penny.
Honestly, this book is a bit basic. I bought it a few weeks ago on RiftRecon's site because it was only $14 and I wanted to see if I was missing a technique or tactic. I wasn't. It's really meant to supplement their red team kit and comes across as such.
That being said, if you are unfamiliar with alternative entry techniques beyond lockpicking, it could be worth it, though Deviant Ollam's book is just a tad over double the amount for this little book and covers some other entry techniques besides lockpicking. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1597499897/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1395334556&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40
The Trusted Advisor is probably the best that I've read as far as general consulting is concerned. But, to be honest, any popular consulting book that you find is going to be 98% junk (fortunately, they're typically quick, if insipid and boring reads).
If you haven't read any strategy books, I'd start with Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy. There's such a love for Porter that even mentioning him in some circles earns you respect.
I might also recommend Crossing the Chasm, too. It's a book about innovation and market adoption which might not seem important if you're not doing startup strategy. However, whenever you're engaged in any effort to do anything (You're either providing a new product, new service, or making people change) you'll have to consider adoption down the road. This will help you segment your targeted audience and understand how and why they're responding the way they do.
People react differently to books, but Crossing the Chasm was one of the best books I've ever encountered on business strategy.
I think Sia and others decentralized-storage players are at the stage where whoever reach Critical-mass first with network-effect is going to win or take-majority-of-the-market-share. And people like bookchin can make that happen much faster at this critical stage of the Sia project (many people call it "crossing the chasm").
https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-High-Tech-Mainstream/dp/0060517123
I'm a big believer in learning from peers and from experimentation, rather than book learning - though I think this is something that's very subjective, so I certainly don't mean to dismiss "book learning" as a bad thing. What your clients consider successful, however, definitely isn't something you can learn from books, you need to learn it from them. Speak to your colleagues, make it clear that you want to improve your understanding of that side of the business, and slowly build up by looking at their reports and asking questions.
Books I've found interesting include Crossing the Chasm and The New Rules of Marketing and PR
I've only been to two conferences, after which I decided not to go to any more - at least marketing ones. I'll go to a conference to network (meaning tech. events rather than marketing events), but not to learn anything. Again, your mileage may vary.
https://www.amazon.com/Barking-Wrong-Tree-Surprising-Everything/dp/0062416049/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7VVXAWNB2M8WP1R84JKQ
and
https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." - George Box
From my experience, it generally appears to be that it's always possible to have more information from which to source; however, barriers such as cost and time often prohibit you from being able to do so.
I think there will always be a better statistical model out there; I don't see anything wrong with updating your model over time as you come across more information or more effective techniques to do the analysis you would want.
I think these two sources should interest you. (1) (2)
Also Nate Silver's Signal and the Noise might be worth a read. It's not a technical manual, but it will give you some things to think about regarding the use of models in a wide variety of fields.
Hope that helps!
Or this one.
Some additional information can help a lot in recommendations. I'd like to know the following:
What is your team size?
Is your team co-located (all in one place)?
Can you describe the type and flow of your work?
Do you have open channels of communication with your customer, and if not, do you have people who can stand in and more or less speak for the customer?
Do you think the leadership would be on board for a drastic change?
It is unlikely that the visibility and continuous improvement of an agile framework will not bring about significant improvements within your company. Also, if you are the type that thrives on facilitating a team and helping them grow to excellence, then this will be a great career change. Personally, I love my job and enjoy every day. With the above simple questions answered, it would be a lot easier to spark a conversation.
Jeff Southerland's book (already mentioned) is a great intro for Scrum, and not a boring read. I also like David Anderson's Kanban, if you have a more steady continuous workflow like a compliance or support team, this can fit better. Also, a good read. The Scrum Guide is rather short and is the definitive guide for the Scrum framework. Exactly how you execute under that framework is largely up to the team, but everything is based on the idea of iterative continuous improvement. Once you get this idea down in practice, you'll be hooked.
Thanks for the resource – bookmarked! I'm currently reading Sutherland's book, it's surprisingly really well written. https://smile.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534645X?sa-no-redirect=1
Our dev team thinks they work in agile, but they're definitely 'scrum but'. Also it's a sensitive political situation for me. The times I've even remotely showed interest in integrating our teams or getting involved, I've been reprimanded. So unfortunately I don't think my current situation is going to provide much in the way of opportunity to learn hands-on. I'm going to continue to see if I can find a creative solution outside of the dev side, but I'm more resigned to making the change wholesale with a new place. Also, I did sign up for the 2-day training in a few weeks, so I am committed, and hopefully soon, certified.
Curious - what kind of stormy waters have you experienced?
I agree with the other comments here.
What are you trying to achieve by getting your directs to put more time in at the office? Are they not getting projects done on time? In most cases, working additional hours past the normal results in a dramatic reduction in employee effectiveness and satisfaction. Jeff Sutherland (one of the founders of Scrum) has an entire chapter on this in his latest book.
Also, the sandwich feedback method is terrible. It is totally transparent and your directs will not respect the lack of candor. I personally prefer the Manager Tools Feedback Model of 1)asking permission to share feedback 2) stating the action 3) stating the consequences of that action. It is super simple and straight to the point. It works for both positive and corrective feedback.
https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534645X
Good idea. Currently selling for $13 used on Amazon.
If you're stupid, why bother asking questions?
In all seriousness, the child equation is flipped in low income or agrarian societies. Children, esp. male children, are both a means of near term income as they contribute work, earned income, dowry (for daughters) and offer an insurance against the future. They have a relatively low investment compared to industrial societies as the need for education is reduced and the period of childhood is comparatively short (lasting to around the onset of puberty).
In modern industrial, finance, and information societies, the cost of rearing a child is orders of magnitude higher requiring more education and more resources over a prolonged childhood, often reaching into their 20's. Families cannot invest nearly as much as so self limit the number of children. Likewise, the insurance afforded by the investment is proportional to the resources per child invested early on and there is reduced benefit more children.
Family sizes, however, are driven to a large degree by societal pressure and it takes generations often for the society to adapt family expectations to economic realities.
Read The Next 100 Years. Some of it is utter crap, but there are insightful nuggets.
The Last Samurai? I thought it was called Dances With Samurais!
Though I can't really say I care much for the East in general, Japan's such an amazing place (I love demographics and that's one homogeous biatch). It's a long shot, but you might want to check out The Next Hundred Years -- this guy's predicting a return of a strong Japan!
I'm no expert in database certification so I won't comment on them, but they sound expensive. I'm sure you could go a long way in improving your skills by working through some free resources and classic texts.
A nice tutorial on fundamentals is:
http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/
A classic introductory to intermediate text is the following. It can get you amazingly far because even advanced topics are explained well:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/
Don't get thrown off by the publication year. The fundamentals of relational databases have barely changed for decades.
An excellent in-depth look at database theory is presented in:
http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Databases-The-Logical-Level/dp/0201537710
For data warehousing and analytical querying (beyond Ramakrishnan et al) this is a great resource:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Dimensional/dp/0471200247
Source: I'm a graduate student in databases.
For most time-series analysis I prefer to build star-schema models and use a real time-dimension.
Your typical time dimension contains about 30-40 attributes, has a granularity of hourly or daily, and rolls up hierarchically to days, weeks, months, quarters, years, etc. This dimension has a single surrogate key that you include with all of your facts to make joins easy. Other non-key attributes might include day of week, weekend/weekday flags, holiday flags, ansi vs iso weeks, etc.
You invest the time once to build a nice model, get performance benefits with large data sets, and and development benefits with whatever technology you're working with: SQL, python, ruby, etc.
EDIT: this technique is common to data warehousing. Any media on this topic should provide a basic overview. A few specific things to check out include:
You should also be able to find some basic source code. I found one project on sourceforge here. No idea if it's any good or not. It isn't hard code to write - just code that nobody should really have to write these days - it's been implemented thousands of times. I can't share my existing solution since it belongs to my employer.
If you don't have it or are new to Data warehousing. I'd recommend Ralph Kimball's - The Data Warehouse Toolkit. Its been my bible of Business Intelligence.
Also, subscribe to /r/BusinessIntelligence
This is good, with respect to learning tips and tricks for competitions, I think you're best off getting a book.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Craft-Problem-Solving/dp/0471789011
Is good
It's a good question that's hard to answer exhaustively. Here are some pointers. Maybe they can help to start a discussion.
> It isn't hard to acquire a modest amount of mental toughness. As a beginner, you most likely lack some confidence and powers of concentration, but you can increase both simultaneously. You may think that building up confidence is a difficult and subtle thing, but we are not talking here about self-esteem or sexuality or anything very deep in your psyche. Math problems are easier to deal with. You are already pretty confident about your math ability or you would not be reading this. You build upon your preexisting confidence by working at first on "easy" problems, where "easy" means that you can solve it after expending a modest effort. As long as you work on problems rather than exercises, your brain gets a workout, and your subconscious gets used to success. Your confidence automatically rises.
> One struggles unsuccessfully with small problems and one has serious doubts about one's ability to prove anything interesting. I went through such a period in my second year of research, and Jean-Pierre Serre, perhaps the outstanding mathematician of my generation, told me that he too had contemplated giving up at one stage. Only the mediocre are supremely confident of their ability. The better you are, the higher the standards you set yourself — you can see beyond your immediate reach. — Michael Atiyah
> When I arrived in Moscow in my last year of graduate study, Gel’fand gave me a paper to read on the cohomology of the Lie algebra of vector fields on a manifold, and I did not know what cohomology was, what a manifold was, what a vector field was, or what a Lie algebra was. — Dusa McDuff
This passage appears to come from page 72, problem section 3.1, of The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz, which does not claim to be a rigorous book; most descriptions of elementary symmetric polynomials do specify that the terms are products of distinct factors, while this book just lists the three-variable and four-variable elementary symmetric polynomials and then describes some of their characteristics.
A good book: http://www.amazon.com/Nonzero-The-Logic-Human-Destiny/dp/0679758941
I don't think there's an "equilibrium" - I think there's chaotic directionality. I think equilibrium is just a human concept that attempts to circumscribe "action-reaction".
I'm not sure how I can elaborate really; I just don't agree with the premise. That equilibrium exists outside of anything but physical systems in regards to things like air pressure. IMO, this is really sort of mental detritus from Zoroastrian/Judeo-Christian concepts of Good/Evil. The desire for cosmic justice is strong, but I don't think it exists outside of the context of human consciousness.
The short version might be that you ask:
>Do you think humans are out of equilibrium?
And to begin a serious conversation, the question is simply: out of equilibrium with what? Why? How?
Although I agree with you and not so much the OP, I want to toss in an idea for pondering. Do you believe in consciousness? I believe I'm self-aware but its a metaphysical belief science can't prove. Science tells me I'm an electrochemical state machine, which I fully believe. In theory, a world could exist identical to ours with evolved two-legged creatures, TVs, even the internet but completely lacking consciousness. How would we explain this concept to such foreign creatures? I'm not setting out to prove the existence of God but trying to highlight most of us have beliefs without absolute proof.
I didn't cook this up on my own, I just read Rober Wright's Nonzero. It wasn't as good as The Moral Animal but makes an intereseting case for deism.
A corollary to this would be the Founder's Dilemmas
While it's not related to real estate, check out Founders' Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman. It's not a page turner, but it definitely addresses a ton of the issues that come up in starting a new business that a founder faces. Noam looked at data from 10,000 startups and compared that to outcomes so it's not just stories (although it has that). One of my favorite take aways is that companies where the founders equally split equity failed at a higher rate than those with unequal splits. I won't spoil the explanation of why, but it's definitely worth a read!
Very interesting as I'll probably be in a similar situation in terms of dealing with equity splits very soon. A few questions, how many other founders are there? How unique is your skill set and could they easily find someone else who can build a similar product? Coming from the marketing/business side, the reality is, products don't sell themselves and the success of a company depends more on it's ability to get customers than how great the product actually is. So the question is who is going to be the biggest contributor to growing the business and if that's you - you should be getting more of the equity. If it's the other founders, then they have more leverage. A good read is The Founder's Dilemmas, might want to check it out... http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421213581&sr=8-1&keywords=founder+dilemma
You should both sign a PIIA. This ensures that all of the IP you're creating belongs to the Company. I was a solo founder to start and signed one myself, even though the idea was mine. This will protect your Company in the long run. http://www.knowingstartups.com/protecting-a-tech-companys-technology-and-other-employment-terms-proprietary-information-and-invention-assignment-agreement/
I had a similar situation and had the difficult conversation. Get your incorporation docs and then have a discussion about how much equity makes sense based on what you each bring to the table:
You can read about how to have this conversation in a structured way in Founder's Dilemmas
https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304
Get incorporated asap so you can set up your restricted stock agreements and then you'll each start vesting your equity. Recommend the standard 4 year vesting schedule with a 1 year cliff. Communicate each of your expectations regarding roles and responsibilities.
Have your cofounder (and you) sign an offer letter or contractor agreement with your terms of work. Set written OKRs and if they're not meeting them, you can fire them.
My first "cofounder" worked w me part time and I had the structured convo and she agreed to 5% for her was fair based on my rationale. She didn't make it a year but as soon as we raised money I paid her back pay as a contractor.
The second woman who started working with me asked for 10% and also started as a contractor. She didn't join me as a FTE until after I'd raised money. I took 70%.
So to her it was fair bc it was my idea, I had taken on all of the risk, put in my life savings, and raised money etc. but our agreement was she would work 30 hours per week and then once she signed, I started the "clock" on her vesting from her first date as a contractor.
I didn't ask her to step up as a cofounder until after we had worked together for 9 months.
FWIW this all happened in 2015. I am still the CEO and we are now worth $40MM. She's still my cofounder but her role will continue to change in the company as the needs of the company change (she knows this and is on board).
So, while these conversations felt super hard at the time, I'm grateful I had them and that we all agreed what was fair and why from a business side. It's good practice for more difficult conversations you'll have w your cofounder in the future, like if you need to hire over them. Everything you both do must be in the best interest of the company.
I hope you enjoy the book, it really helped me.
Be careful about your equity bc it becomes the most valuable thing you have. Open conversations help to squash resentment. You never know, maybe your cofounder doesn't expect 50% or perhaps they only want to work part time... or start later after you raise. There's no one "right" way to do it.
As a senior engineer living in Silicon Valley, I get pitched to all the time by people with "an amazing idea" that nobody has thought of that will change the world. Any engineer worth their weight has heard the same thing left and right.
The fundamental problem is that these "idea guys" think a good idea is all that is needed and the only thing getting in their way of a multibillion dollar valuation is some engineer that won't build this one little thing for them.
The problem is this: successful startup are not just about the idea but also the execution. You've probably heard this all the time how idea is worthless, execution is everything. But what I'm talking about is executing on the business and customer development side. Executing on technology is easy, building a successful business is more than just building the app, it's also about building the business side of the company.
If you follow any of the Lean Startup methodologies, the last step of building a startup is building the product. You don't start building anything until you have paying customers. Prior to that, it's all about Minimally Viable Product to prove a concept. A MVP does not need to be an app; there have been very successful startups that started out with paper mocks as MVP and manual processes as MVP. Even Uber's MVP is a fraction of what it ended up being.
So, I won't laugh you out of the room; I am extremely patient with every pitch that I hear. However, if you want me to take you seriously, bring something to the table. Find me 10 customers that have paid or are willing to buy this product that you are going to release. If you cannot find 10 paying customers* to validate your idea, it tells me a number of things:
So, my advice if you want to be taken seriously, bring something to the table:
Honestly, as an engineer, the two groups that are hard to find are good product managers and UX designers. As an engineer, I'm looking for someone to complement my skills. I am looking for someone that can hustle, do customer interviews and market analysis of the target market. Tech is easy, finding the product market fit is hard.
Anyway, I recommend two books if you are serious about building your concept:
Listen to the people who work for you. For every one person under you it takes a few hours a week to manage as a rule of thumb. When I say manage, I talk about leadership, developing them, understanding them, understanding how they want to grow and stretch.
I highly recommend reading the following book too about teams. It's a great book and in my experience holds true with small teams and large global teams.
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756
There are many books on how to be a good leader, and not that many on how to go from a good to a great leader. I know 4 really good books in the latter category:
I'm 31 and just started my own company. When I turned 16, I had a profound epiphany about what I wanted to do "when I grew up". That epiphany was I wanted to own my own business. The why, came from the experiences I had since I was 14.
I worked as a delivery guy for two guys who owned a bounce house company. At 15, I was employee 1 at an advertising company. I started in the mailroom stuffing envelopes and I continued to work for that company through college and even a few months after graduating college. I didn't stay in the mailroom though. As I taught myself programming and a little design, I was growing within the company, as they themselves grew in revenue and size. I was getting a front row seat to what it was like to be an entrepreneur and I loved every minute of it; the long hours, the struggles, the doing whatever it takes, carving your own path, etc.
Even though I knew being an entrepreneur was part of my path in life, it has taken me 16 yrs to make that a reality. I have no regrets as I've been able to gain knowledge and experience the entire time. Everything you experience in life can help you in some way on your path to becoming an entrepreneur.
Remember, you can do a lot of good by being an employee too. You have not failed if you don't start a company.
Suggested Reading
I'll say my books aren't expressly feminine. They're more about dynamics, relationships, motivations, which have helped to prevent me from going wild with aggressive masculine approaches despite my surroundings and peers. Thank goodness I found these so early :)
I loved Captivating, which is about women from a Christian perspective and it's counterpart called Wild at Heart, which is about men. Neither of them were too overwhelmingly Christian, IMO.
Another book with Christian influences, The Servant is a book about leadership theory that's been very helpful to me stepping into a more nurturing and deferring approach.
Five Dysfunctions of a Team is my very favorite book ever, and it discusses the reasons teams (be it a couple, sports team, friend group, or work group) fail and how to prevent that. Very helpful in learning why vulnerability, an important feminine trait, is so important.
https://amzn.to/2Ku6Xbi - The Ideal Team Player
https://amzn.to/31zGqPs - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
https://amzn.to/2Ku8UEE - Extreme Ownership
https://amzn.to/2YXLkE3 - Dichotomy of Leadership
This book is what I get every one of our engineering interns - https://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Laws-Engineering-Revised-Updated/dp/0791801624
Have you read this yet? If not, it's time: https://smile.amazon.com/Unwritten-Laws-Engineering-Revised-Updated/dp/0791801624?sa-no-redirect=1
Unwritten Laws of Engineering: Revised and Updated Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0791801624/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_iEXYub12PRS8Y
A must have in my opinion
Este es muy bueno. Unwritten laws of engineering
> I can't seem to find them, but there's been studies showing police officers and judges (people who professionally have to evaluate whether someone is lying) are actually slightly worse than average at detecting lies.
I seem to remember that particular tale popping up as an example in Superforecasting (read it if you haven't already!), attributed in part to a lack of reliable immediate feedback as to whether or not their assessments were correct.
I get that. I guess it all depends on the context, your environment and chosen career path. I look at this from an entrepreneurial and/or high powered corporate point of view (i'm in sales, probably the worst job for an INTP) because that's the context I find myself in. If you feel that you want to stick more to your true self find something that encourages low risk, weighing all the pros and cons by all means go for it.
Recently I've read an interesting book that helped me wrap my head around being indecisive and speaking more openly about things I'm not certain of - Superforecasting. On the whole it's a meh book, but one thing that it taught me that everything can be handled by talking in probabilities. Instead of thinking in certainties you talk about probabilities of 70%-80% (there's a scene in Zero Dark Thirty showing exactly this). I found that this helped me to make decisions faster and act faster.
I think keeping up with events in a meaningful way is quite a laborious undertaking.
Like, it is difficult to understand the significance of the recent killings in Jerusalem without being aware of the rising tensions over the past few months, the current political climate in Israel, the history of Palestinian uprisings, the relationship between Israel, the Palestinian people, and neighbouring states, the deep connection between Jewish identity in the diaspora and the Israeli state, and so on.
Even with a lot of historical context, significant developments in world affairs, national politics, or what have you typically require a lot of thought to sort out--especially when there are many contrary narratives on offer. Trying to maintain such a grasp on a wide array of events constitutes a major time investment.
A headline-level awareness of, say, Russia's recent intervention in the Ukraine is hardly better than no sense of that conflict at all. Grand events are endlessly complicated, their implications are multifaceted and prohibitively difficult to predict--let alone to usefully apply to one's life.
(Total aside, Philip Tetlock's book on professional forecasting was really good and you would probably like it.)
> Even if it doesn't affect my life right now, the fact it might affect my life in 5 or 10 years means I am better off keeping up with it.
Most developments you'd read about in the news? Probably not outside of your ability to discuss them. (Granted, that ability is in and of itself important in many social circles.)
Hmm.. The only other two I can think of is:
**edit: Ah! Looks like you figured it out! :)
First of all, it's a great question. I've been wrestling with it for quite a while now.
Might I suggest a few things...
Read Philip Tetlock's book, "Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Predicting".
This is real-world stuff that has Bayesian thinking at it's heart.
If you are intrigued, consider getting involved with Tetlock's Good Judgment project to get some actual hands-on experience with it and to start developing a network of peers.
You can read about it here. I recently took the one-day workshop when I was in Washington DC, but that's not really necessary to get started.
You can also participate in Good Judgment Open, and try your hand at actual forecasting using Bayesian methods.
Another book I would highly recommend is Annie Duke's "Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All The Facts". She actually references Tetlock a lot.
I will caution you that the first time I read "Thinking in Bets" I thought it was lame, and put it down before I finished. But then I heard her on a podcast and realized she's top-notch. Not only did I go back and read the book in full, but I read it twice (with extensive marking).
If you like Annie Duke, consider signing up for her weekly newsletter.
Finally, the first step -- in my opinion -- in internalizing Bayesian thinking and such is to know, internalize, and practice Cromwell's Rule.
I don't recall either Philip Tetlock or Annie Duke referring to it explicitly, but it is the foundation upon which all they discuss is built.
Good luck!
You should read Superforcasting. They specifically talk about people who make percent guesses down to the decimal point like this lol.
https://buffer.com/library/social-proof
You might want to read a few Marketing books if you're going to start a business. (https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/dp/0887306667, https://www.amazon.com/Contagious-Things-Catch-Jonah-Berger/dp/1451686587/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=A83W2B73QMKMTAK2D36K)
https://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/dp/0887306667
Best I've read and it's not close.
I think most marketers would agree this book is a great starting point to learn some of the fundamental marketing principles(theories).
https://www.amazon.ca/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/dp/0887306667
I will caution you when you do google searches for marketing that there are endless numbers of crappy “marketing courses” and gurus — don’t waste your money.
Entrepreneur Reading List
Computer Science Grad School Reading List
Video Game Development Reading List
Early adopters are . .. well, early adopters.
Read this: https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-High-Tech-Mainstream/dp/0060517123
or the cliff notes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
I remember reading this one a long time ago. https://www.amazon.ca/Crossing-Chasm-Marketing-Disruptive-Mainstream/dp/0060517123
I am not sure how relevant it is today... Heck, it predates Windows NT.
Thanks for sharing the link BirdHerder, you don't understand how much I appreciate you taking the time to write & share your opinion. I absolutely agree with you on the challenge of objective rating on such a subjective concept but we're hoping that society & group adoption would help establish the average norm as I'd imagine it would vary for each community.
Are you able to share with me some of those communities or applications that you feed would find a system like this beneficial? I've been reading the book crossing the chasm & the author keeps mentioning focus on market segments like you have mentioned but my background is biased towards in corruption in developing nations. I would love to know where you see such a system play a beneficial role...
So many tailwinds for the company now (new urban superchargers, integration of powerwall & solar roof tiles, launch of model 3, etc.). Will we see entire blocks of Teslas parked on the street and in parking garages in the near future? I believe we are close to the tipping point identified in Crossing the Chasm!
If your business is technology related then please give your investor this book and make him read it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0060517123
Short term revenue is a bad metric if your aim is to grow a technology. On the other hand it's much better to argue about leaving some revenue on the table than about burn rates of a never-to-be-profitable company.
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
This book is really great for getting a surface level understanding of how big data can be harnessed. It also delves into how big data is being used as a buzz word to scam companies out of money.
I listen to audio books, so this might be a little dry for what you're looking for. The narrator was great. He definitely added to my sense or enjoyment
I think an important point to mention here is that these viewers SAY they would cancel Netflix in this instance. It's easy to say whatever you want to a hypothetical poll.
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This book about Google was an interesting read expanding on how people lie about what they're doing online because we're anonymous on the internet and it's easy:
https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia?keywords=everybody+lies&pd_rd_i=0062390856&pd_rd_r=729c95c5-ba9c-4db4-b452-fa8c605a57e5&pd_rd_w=FB0Em&pd_rd_wg=IdYcs&pf_rd_p=f0479f98-a32d-45cd-9c12-7aaced42b1ec&pf_rd_r=5265D5ZMZNAX0FQW8AP5&qid=1557866692&s=gateway
Although internet filter bubbles do exist, people are much more likely to see opposing views on the internet than irl. I don’t have a source but I read about it in this book everybody lies Think about the comment section of any newspaper.
I don't know why you said alt right, especially because it's been confirmed that Freudian slips aren't a real thing. If you want to have a conversation about an anti-fascist movement, how do you plan on doing that without mentioning fascism?
Fully 25 percent of female searches for straight porn emphasize the pain and/or humiliation of the woman,” he writes, citing search terms inappropriate to reiterate here, but featuring words like “painful,” “extreme” and “brutal,” and often focused on nonconsensual sex (depictions of which, he emphasizes, are not permitted on that site).
https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-Internet-About-Really/dp/0062390856?tag=nypost-20
I thought the same until I read Everybody Lies which set out, for me, a convincing argument based on big data that people get more ideological diversity and come into contact with with more differing viewpoints thanks to the internet.
The Signal and the Noise, by Nate Silver. (Goodreads, Amazon)
Speaks about the way we make predictions in various fields, such as the economy, politics, weather, stock market, sports (which teams win championships, which players will become successful) and others.
He's the chief editor of the news website fivethirtyeight. Although its America-centric, the quality of the reporting there is peerless because its entirely backed up by data, rather than opinion.
De acord!
Depinde și ce înțelegi prin imaginație, în unele aplicații un soft poate fi mai inventiv decât noi. Citeam în The Signal and the Noise că la unele turnee de șah ăia care trișează sunt prinși tocmai pentru că fac niște mutări atât de inventive și ieșite din comun încât ridică semne de întrebare că niciun om nu poate gândi atât de mult în perspectivă, deci trebuie să fie "ajutat" de un AI.
La ce te referi prin imaginație? Care ar fi aplicațiile imaginației noastre prin care ne-am păstra totuși un avantaj față de AI? Sunt sincer curios.
>such as you ultimately study things to help yourself, but really you're helping someone else who will pay you so you can help yourself
I love to learn about about laminar flow, the Germans who got lost in Death Valley (seriously read this, and his post on the hunt for downed airplanes), how ISIS formed, and an understanding of how people interpret data not because it will pay me, but because it makes me a smarter person. Your own intellect is not most beneficial to you because of what words you can make come out of your mouth, but by letting you decipher the words that come out of other people's mouths. The best thing about knowledge is that it gives you perspective.
>The real question, however, is will that make you attractive to us ladies? That's still the big question. Getting in shape will. Playing board games "for the challenge" with nerdy dudes who talk about pseudo philosophical BS they read on the internet? Not so much.
There in lies your problem. You're wanting to form yourself to make yourself attractive, where as long as you're a top 10 then you can do whatever you want. You honestly think a guy who is in great shape, well read, and works hard but happens to like board games or D&D can't get a girl?. Sure, if that's your only hobby it will be harder, but everyone should have multiple hobbies that they're passionate about. Women love confidence and passion. Confidence is just a different word for truly loving and believing in yourself regardless of what other people think. Passion is just another word for what you really really like.
If you don't love yourself, why would anyone else?
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver.
It's a great introduction to how probability and statistics can be used to model real events in the future, and why many of those predictions don't work very well at all. The book is more about the logic and principles of predictions than the math behind them, so if statistics intimidate you but forecasting fascinates you, this is the book you'll want to read.
I think a start with SCRUM requires understanding of roots of this methodology, that is why I would start from reading (or re-reading if you are already familiar with the book) of Doing Twice the Work in Half a Time by Jeff Sutherland.
Then go for the Scrum Guide, it is all there.
I believe that right implementation of SCRUM requires 2 things: discipline (military roots) and shuhari concept from martial arts. In simple words, you need to start doing it step-by-step and it is obligatory to do it by the book, you will not master it in 1 day and SCRUM is always a process of a continuous improvement.
Start with the things that are simple to implement and give the best results:
- working in sprints (1 week is great);
- daily stand up;
- sprint review;
- retrospectives;
- backlog and user stories;
- deliver to production at the end of each sprint;
- focus on 1 user story at a time, etc, etc.
then you can go for certifications: CSM is a good way to start and understand if you want to keep on getting certificates and you would understand that there are many ways to keep on improving your SCRUM further.
don't forget that Jeff Sutherland has a bunch of online lectures about SCRUM @ https://www.scruminc.com ,
someone already recommended to read Mike Cohn, I double that.
Jeff Sutherland's book Agile: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time is a great read for anyone that hasn't practiced Agile.
http://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534645X
One of the first books I read which brough my attention to the subject was:
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534645X
After that - take anything google throws at you ;)
Well, it's not a complete guide of "how to be a good manager" but this is the canonical (I believe) book about Scrum, which is a specific implementation of the vague mess known as "agile."
https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534645X
It's pretty short, 256 pages. I think that after the first few chapters you'd have a pretty good sense of whether or not you think it's interesting or if you think it's bullshit.
If you want to know how to be a good manager, I'd suggest this book. It's not about management but it's pretty good primer on how to work with people.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671027034
If I could pick two books for all my managers to read and really take to heart, it would be those two.
I'm just now implementing Scrum formally within our company. For me, at the time, it's all upside. I have a CEO & COO that are non-technical (at least as far as software development is concerned), that have really been struggling to understand the team's productivity in a meaningful way.
For me, being able to plan sprints and develop a velocity has been a game-changer. It's very easy now for them to prioritize work and know with a high degree of confidence where we will be after our sprint is finished. That's very important to them, so Scrum really simplifies my life because it's much easier to plan with them using the tools it provides.
I personally purchased Jeff Sutherland's book "Scrum", who was a co-creator, through Audible. Worked pretty well as an e-book, since the complexity is pretty low and most of it was conceptual. https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534645X/
SCRUM! a good overall book is SCRUM
This scrum book specifically values regular time off, and even espouses a 4 day week.
http://www.amazon.com/Next-100-Years-Forecast-Century/dp/038551705X
I suggest you read The Next 100 Years (http://www.amazon.com/Next-100-Years-Forecast-Century/dp/038551705X) if you're questioning the US's military spending.
In George Friedman's book, he predicts WW3 between the US and a Japanese-Turkish alliance that is started by attacks from a Japanese lunar base on US Battlestar satellites.
Reminded me of this book: link. Same thing, but for this century. Good read if you're in to that kind of thing.
>The only country on the planet that could even begin to fight a war with the United States (nuclear weapons notwithstanding) is Mexico.
I thought of Canada for a brief moment, and then I chuckled.
Have you read this book? Much of what you say is consistent with ideas presented there, including Mexico eventually becoming a threat.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/038551705X
I just saw this book on my friends coffee table yesterday. I haven't read it, but plan to. Only took a quick glance, but might be worth the read.
Buy and study this. https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition)
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Good stuff.
If you want to stay in the SQL Server world (T-SQL/SSIS/SSRS/SSAS), I highly recommend reading T-SQL Fundamentals and The Data Warehouse Toolkit (and other Ralph Kimball books) over and over again. These were invaluable to me in my SQL days, as many SQL interviews tend to be less reliant on puzzle games and more reliant upon pure knowledge of the engine you're dealing with. Knowing the SQL Server engine really well will help you with DBA knowledge, also (which tends to focus on optimization and disaster recovery aspects).
Other than that, what do you want to do, specifically? All interviews are going to be different for different jobs.
Awesome! I kind of fell into the job. I was initially hired as a web developer, and didn't even know what BI was, and then got recruited by one of the BI managers and fell in love. To me, it is one of the few places in IT where what you create will directly impact the choices a business will make.
Most of what I do is ETL work (taking data from multiple systems, and loading them into a single warehouse), with a few cubes (multidimensional data analaysis) and SSRS report models (logical data model built on top of a relational data store used for ad hoc report creation). I also do a bit of report design, and lots of InfoPath 2010 + SharePoint 2010 custom development.
We use the entire Microsoft BI stack here, so SQL Server Integration (SSIS), Analysis (SSAS), and Reporting Services (SSRS). Microsoft is definitely up and coming in the BI world, but you might want to try to familiarize yourself with Oracle BI, Business Objects, or Cognos. Unfortunately, most of these tools are very expensive and not easy to get up and running. I would suggest you familiarize yourself with the concepts, and then you will be able to use any tool to apply them.
For data warehousing, check out the Kimball books:
Here and here and here
For reporting, get good with data visualizations, anything by Few or Tufte, like:
Here and here
For integration, check these out:
Here and here
Also, if you're interested in Microsoft BI (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) check out this site. It has some awesome videos around SSAS that are easy to follow along with.
Also, check out the MSDN BI Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bi/
Currently at work, but if you have more questions, feel free to shoot me a message!
ETL is the process of populating a data warehouse with data from operational systems. While both involve transferring/updating data, your issue isn't really about ETL. There might be some lessons about copying/updating data in the ETL field, though.
Kimball's books are great; I'd add this one to your reading list. Probably a better starting point on data warehouses than the ETL one.
IMO your problem is hardly database related, even if data stored in a db are involved. It's a pure SW development/programming task outside of the realm of database administration.
Start off by looking for off-the-shelf solutions, i.e. check with your POS supplier if they already support this.
Failing that, you need to build your own software for pushing updates to the remote locations. A service installed on every POS that periodically polls the central server for pricing info is probably your best bet (perhaps not ideal, but should be a serviceable solution for the short run). I'd send a JSON document with every local SKU and expect one back containing current prices -- or ask for changes since last update if you have a lot of products. Make sure nothing stupid happens when a SKU isn't found or the request fails.
Make sure you understand every relevant piece of the POS db's schema. Will updating the base price do, or do you need to consider discounts, currency, taxes and whatnot? You also need to be sure you're asking the right server for pricing info (proper authentication, e.g. something PKI based), and that you have instrumentation in place to notice if a remote location isn't asking for price data.
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247
The is a highly recommended book for the Data Warehouse industry. Hope you enjoy it and good luck.
I can't answer your question directly since I haven't fully read CTCI, but I'm going to throw another recommendation out there. I started doing Codility problems but wasn't happy with my ability solve them.
I could arrive at the correct solutions, but it took me a long time and always felt messy, like I was going in circles or down more dead ends than I should be. Maybe you don't have that problem. Anyway, finally I found this book, The Art and Craft of Problem Solving. It's aimed a little more at mathematics, but, damn was it helpful for me. The difference in my solutions before and after reading this book is huge.
Here are a couple of suggestions:
I am not an especially good problem solver, but I have done fairly OK financially. These are suggestions that I wish someone had given me when I was your age - it would have made my career slightly more fun!
Well the first book details much of what you would need to know as a first year grad student in math and has recommendations for other books as well.
This book might also be something to try or perhaps Knuth's Concrete Math.
You could also try what this guy did, only with the MIT math curriculum on MIT OCW and without the time constraints.
Doing math is all about problem solving and this is a really terrific book for building your intuition and confidence in problem solving.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Craft-Problem-Solving/dp/0471789011
I don't assume everything will be gone forever, but many will be, at least, very uncomfortable (water, food, shelter, safety, will be difficult) for months or longer. That's enough for me to give post collapse consideration.
Regarding the continuation of ideas, however, I'm currently reading a heady book, NonZero by Robert Wright. Its about how ideas survive collapse, and more on history/philosophy than survival skills for postcollapse.
the moral animal and non-zero by robin wright.
I believe that there are objectively good tricks for getting along well in communities.
This is, in part, what Game Theory studies. There are win-win ways of interacting that are mathematically, provably, better — at least in the long run — than zero-sum or negative-sum interactions.
In the book Nonzero, the author Robert Wright talks about how civilizations become more successful as they figure out how to implement more and more positive-sum (win-win) ways of interacting.
Some light reading to broaden your perspective
Trump's 'Mental Impairment Means He Cannot Think Strategically or in Abstract Terms,' Claims Professor of Psychiatry
Daily reminder that game theory is the abstract science of strategy. The Right plays checkers (King me KING ME KING ME KING ME!) while the left plays trans-dimensional Go. That's just Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny which can be read by someone who cannot hear.
However your problem has made me consider adding subtitles to my videos to increase accessibility. Thanks <3
See also Robert Wright's books The Moral Animal and Nonzero. I can't recommend that guy's stuff enough.
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Nonzero by Robert Wright
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
...just my opinions.
I highly recommend the book "founders dilemmas" https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484509269&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=founders+dilemma
It has a whole chapter devoted to equity splits and founder arrangements
My businesses are not online. They make things!
I decided to work on them once I managed to get a bunch of angel investors interested on the first. That was the matter of getting a decent idea and putting a bunch of talent behind it.
I've got partners, yes. My partners bring skills I don't have, and expertise in domains I don't have. That isn't to say I know nothing, but they know a lot more.
A great book is 'The Founders' Dilemmas.' It goes through many of the problems you might face in starting your own business.
There are probably a lot of ways to answer this question, but here are some insights based on a combination of research and lived experience in a similar scenario.
First off, it's great you're at least thinking about this early. Plenty of people put it off in fear of conflict, due to naivete, or because they're too focused on other issues (which may or may not deserve priority). Having this conversation early is important since the longer you work the more expectations can be built around share size and the harder it is to negotiate a solution everyone is happy with.
Second, be wary of an even split. This might make sense if you both feel that you're both bringing an equal amount to the table, but you should both be sure of this. How you evaluate this is a personal choice. There are plenty of equity calculators out there (Foundrs.com has one that I've found pretty reasonable in some instances). A lot of this depends on how vital both of you feel your skills (and hard work) are to the success of the project. You may also get good feedback from others in this subreddit that have had to do splits in a scenario more similar to yours which may work just as well.
Another topic to think about is vesting. It may be unwise to pay out the shares immediately. Vesting helps make sure people stick around and that if they do leave early it's not as messy to buy back their shares so you can use that equity to bring in another person (if you still want to go forward). You can also tie vesting to things like milestones if you like.
Probably most important is that you split shares in a way both of you are comfortable with. Lots of people will say they're okay with a breakdown of shares to avoid having a hard conversation about money, but this can easily become a problem later on when someone feels unfairly compensated for their efforts. This can kill a company, no matter how awkward it may feel having a conversation (especially with a friend) about how much each of you are 'worth', it needs to happen to protect the future of what you're building together.
If you have time, I'd seriously recommend taking a look at the equity splitting portion of the book The Founder's Dilemmas.
I hope this helps. Best of luck to the both of you!
I would be aware of the data used in this article. There is a "survivor bias" people aren't usually aware of - we only analyze success cases and not failures, and draw conclusions from them.
You can analyze 10 out of 20 successful startups and realize many have solo founders... but you might not be including the 150 out of 200 that had solo founders and also failed.
Professor Noah Wasserman released an excellent book called The Founder's Dilemmas (https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304) where he presents research not very encouraging to startup founders. And his research included 1000 startups, if I'm not mistaken.
Please go and buy and read all of these this week, for the sake of you and your team:-
https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Growth/dp/1491973897
https://www.amazon.ca/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engineering/dp/1430243147
https://www.amazon.ca/Debugging-Teams-Productivity-through-Collaboration/dp/1491932058
https://www.amazon.ca/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756
This book has helped us a lot to think about the team, management and studio dynamics. I would recommend it - it doesn't matter that it isn't game industry specific, nor how big your team is.
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756
https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805
https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Mastery-Good-Great-Servant-Leadership/dp/0957587406
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Development-Agile-Toolkit/dp/0321150783/
https://www.amazon.com/Implementing-Lean-Software-Development-Concept/dp/0321437381/
https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Agile-Teams-ScrumMasters-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321637704
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756/
https://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Project-DevOps-Helping-Business/dp/0988262509/
https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Lean-Program-Management-Collaboration/dp/1943487073/
https://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Leadership-Leveraging-Thriving-Organization/dp/0061251321/
Scrum masters can come from any background. Having PM knowledge is helpful but not required. A scrum master is a guide and coach for the team. They are responsible for ensuring the team is following the rules of scrum, facilitating their meetings, and overall helping the team on the path to high performance.
Understanding the rules of scrum and the agile principles are more important. In your first SM role you will likely be following the scrum guide as closely as possible but the importance will be in understanding why the practices exist. What is important in the daily scrum? Why do we ask the 3 questions? What is the real goal in that meeting? etc... Eventually guiding and facilitating becomes more about the principles, outcomes, and goals than the rules of scrum but that comes with time.
Pay attention to the people on the team. I suggest looking into some personality or team-working books as a scrum master should be in tune enough to understand the work being done (technical and business purposes) and how the people work together. Conflicts amongst team members can be a difficult impediment to remove.
There's a great book written about this very topic
https://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Laws-Engineering-Revised-Updated/dp/0791801624/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1484838190&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=unwritten+rules+of+engineering
An oldie but a goodie.
Excerpted/summarised from Unwritten Laws of Engineering (worth a read in any case - it's good stuff). Mostly obvious, but enough managers screw some or all of these up that it's always worth reposting...
Pick your favourite 5.
For Engineering Supervisors
Constantly review developments and other activities to make certain that actual benefits are commensurate with costs in money, time and manpower.
What Every Supervisor Owes His Workers
when they are in trouble.
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0791801624/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_HjgvybVGQCMBJ
Skunkworks is great. Super good insight into the growth of a career and how an engineer thinks.
https://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Laws-Engineering-Revised-Updated/dp/0791801624/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmrnull_1?crid=3VPKBNEXYOHHK&amp;keywords=unwritten+rules+of+engineering&amp;qid=1555021569&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=unwritten+r&amp;sr=8-1-fkmrnull
Here's this book. I hear it's good. Haven't read it myself
We're all trying to do the best we can in this crazy place called crypto.
As to your comment, that's why there is no DCF or dividend discount model or the like in my post. Scenario analysis is a start of something and it gives context. It leans on assumptions and guesses and it's weak for it. But it gives better context than just rolling the dice or guessing without going through the rigor of breaking it down. Have you read Superforecasters? I highly recommend it.
Another framework to use that might be of some use would just to look at comparable cryptos. LTC/BTC relationship, estimated of TX/day and number of users and value, etc.
Superforecasting has been on my "get to soon" list since I got it last Christmas. It just got a nice nod in the latest CAS magazine.
Along the probability/math lines, other books I've enjoyed are:
Recent psychology research is showing some people can make accurate predictions about the future--though, the research discussed concerns predictions on a <10 year timescale. Still a good place to start though.
People dis Kurzweil, but on Less Wrong a bunch of volunteers went through a ton of his old predictions and the result is that maybe 30% of them were accurate. Not super impressive, but it's a lot better than it could be given that the predictions were made 10 years in advance.
Your rules link doesn't work.
Read: http://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Prediction-Philip-E-Tetlock/dp/0804136696/
if you want some helpful insight into making accurate forecasts
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock.
So I usually tell my MBA students to just read books, not textbooks. Here are a few of my general suggestions:
Nudge, Thaler and Sunstein
Misbehaving Thaler
Superforecasting Tetlock and Gardner
Zombie Economics Quiggin
If you need more suggestions or want to discuss any of the ideas in these books, don't hesitate to ask.
Duuuuuuude have you read Superforecasting? This skill is literally an important part of the modern rationality movement.
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Have you read Superforecasting? It's all about predicting the future, and how some people do it well. Interestingly, they tend to use very little actual math.
The machine learning model. Remember that Cognicism, the actual authors claims are not shown to users. The ML outputs an aggregate view of a collective of people trying to find a common truth together. The idea of "centralized arbiters of truth" really doesn't have much legs in my mind.
There are many attempts at making a "scoring algorithm" for truth. We talk about most of them in the manifesto.
Truthcoin (now hivemind) is basically just a crypto based on prediction markets. Simpler but I think it can be corrupted. [Metaculus] (http://www.metaculus.com/help/scoring/) also focuses on prediction and they concede that there are infinite scoring functions.
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From my perspective, the key is ML model, and FourThought API which is a constraint on how truths are evaluated. You don't just rate true or false, you rate on a spectrum of 0% likely to be true to 100% likely.
The ML model is using the raw text of the thoughts as well as the collective score. It's always trying to predict itself what accounts are making the predictions (or statements) that end up being logged to the chain.
The models seem to favor accounts that fall into the basic constraints laid out in this book They use Brier scores for evaluation like Prediction Book. In their case they find that scorers that make more nuanced predictions, and update their scores more often are more accurate. The ML models are meant to learn similar patterns in accounts.
The models are constantly learning, and becoming more rich with knowledge over time, and resistant to corruption by trolls.
Early models with not a lot of training time and pretty dumb and susceptible.
Any product will spawn competition. You can either let another company be the competition, or you can provide your own competing product.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing is a fantastic book that covers many ideas like this, and provides insight into much of how we think as humans. Read it and consider, for example, the rise and fall of various open source projects as you do.
It amazes me how many parallels I see between these actions and these teachings which in my views may have been valid once when global communication was muted; but now that connections are bridged through the Internet completely fall apart. And yet I STILL constantly see business/markets cling desperately to these dusty philosophies...
I thoroughly enjoyed The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Podcasts:
Books:
Upwork is a great place to start to sell your CAD skills as a freelancer, either to get cash flow to support your future plans or to be your primary source of income.
As far as resources goes on the how to start something. I found "The Startup Owner's Manual" (https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Step-Step-Building-Company/dp/0984999302/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1518503563&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=startup+handbook) and "Business Model Generation" (https://www.amazon.com/Business-Model-Generation-Visionaries-Challengers/dp/0470876417) both have very boring titles, but great content and guided both myself and my co-founder down the road of finding our business idea and launching it. We are now a $5M a year business.
Good questions.
1 - What is the importance of a cofounder? The answer depends on a lot of things, mostly the value that a cofounder could bring. The challenge is finding someone who will invest a lot of time and is willing to see a 16 year old as an equal. I am 34 years old and I would have a hard time personally with that. When it comes to startups, founders don't spend a lot of time helping each other develop skills. Usually you have pretty distinct areas of responsibility and have to train yourself in whatever those areas are. Said differently, a cofounder is more about what skills they bring to the table that they can execute somewhat independently rather than their ability to personally help or train you. If you are able to develop what you envision yourself, a cofounder might not be necessary. But to be clear, a great cofounder is worth a whole lot. You just have to overcome unique challenges because of your age and background. My personal recommendation to you would be that you should at least learn enough to develop the MVP yourself. I think it is unlikely you would find a skilled developer to act as a cofounder for free for you (equity is still free until it is paid out, and it usually isn't).
2 - Should you use kickstarter? Hard to make any recommendation without a good understanding of your product and potential audience. Have you done any market research? Have you looked at what makes a product successful on kickstarter vs not? Is your product physical or software (what it sounds like)? How has that type of product performed before on kickstarter?
A good book I would recommend if you get serious is The Startup Owner's Manual by Blank and Dorf.
I've attended Cole's 1-day workshop and definitely recommend it to any business who needs to summarize the so-what of their data. The book is good too.
http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/public-workshops/
https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257
Links!
Effective Data Visualization
Storytelling With Data
The Accidental Analyst
Data At Work
Effective Data Visualization and Data At Work are in the driver's seat. I really want to try Data At Work, but I struggle to find enough reviews to convince a purchase. Thanks!
This doesn’t answer your exact questions but I couldn’t recommend this book more: Storytelling with Data - it’s an excellent primer on what makes a good (or bad) data visualization. This book provides tons of dos and don’ts to help you think about how and when to use different types of charts (be forewarned she hates pie charts though) as well as providing before and after examples as inspiration on how to make visualizations better.
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119002257/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_qMFQCbDCYBFGC
Another book to consider that’s more specific to Excel (still gives data viz tips but it’s more how to do this in excel technical) is Data Visualization & Presentation with Microsoft Office - this book was a little basic for my needs but still a good resource.
Data Visualization & Presentation With Microsoft Office https://www.amazon.com/dp/1483365158/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_vPFQCbQZQ5876
I'd recommend reading the book Sprint by Jake Knapp. He developed a super cost and time efficient method for startups to see if there is in fact a demand for their product before dumping tons of money into it. Check it out -> Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days https://www.amazon.com/dp/150112174X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_urQAxbAD06ZS6
The robot is very similar to the one mentioned in Sprint: How to solve big problems and test new ideas which was backed by Google Ventures
I'd second all these and add
Check out;
This book really is great and helped me to create a startup in 24 hours. Below is my startup;
It really gets you to think of speed and tests your idea without investing too much into something that might not work.
Ideally, management will be learnt on the way and shouldn't be too much of the focus when starting up a business. You need to focus on getting your product out to the market asap and prove your business model works. From this point, everything else will follow.
I hope this book helps you out and wish you all the best of luck! Let me know if you need any other advise.
You are providing no specifics. None. Just what you aspire to your toy to do. I can't give you feedback on your aspirations, half the toys on the market spout aspirations about teaching children valuable things.
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\>Since most adults are clueless on what profession, career, calling to pursue. Your children will have a taste of it when they are young so they'll be able to figure out which one is for them.
This is utter BS. Playing with a toy focused around a career teaches you nothing about what that career is like.
Build a prototype, go test it with potential customers. Check out Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days.
That is precisely it. The laws of scaling work that way. It's also the case that as population increases, average wealth increases.
There is a great book about this phenomenon:
https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainability-Organisms/dp/1594205582
Geoffrey West talks about this kind of thing in “Scale”
Like it says in the screen grab you get about one billion, like all mammals.
this book is in the direction of what you are asking for, but isn't actually what you're asking for.
Sadly, I'm not sure how to find what you're looking for. Best of luck.
You could try this, too.
All this and more! Also, for books, check out Strengthfinder.
https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X
Strength Finder might help. You seem to get Peterson's message. Pick something and work up its hierarchy.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/159562015X/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_BsJNzbY3W8SM3
It's a book that has like 34 personality types. You have to pay to take it though I just took it as like a team building thing at work and it was really interesting.
This sounds really bogus, but have you ever taken the Strengths Finder test? It's really fascinating and interesting and can help pinpoint where your most innate (if not currently innate) interests are.
I have always liked biographies but never really noticed or knew why. The results from the test sort of explained why. Maybe this type of thing could really help you focus in on whatever you're going through? Maybe it turns out giving another genre (Raymond Carver's newer biography is fascinating!) would get you going?
Hope this helps in some way. I know the Strengths Finder test seems goofy and corporate-retreaty, but it's really very cool.
(In case anyone was curious, my results were, in order: Context, Input, Intellection, Empathy, Communication)
It really depends on your interests, but I like to read, write, analyze anything I can get my hands on. I've been alone for a long time, but I'm young. I decided I'd rather be preoccupied than lonely. Something that might help you figure it out could be this: https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1501706061&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=strengthfinder I didn't trust this at first, but I've taken my results and try to apply them in all areas of my very personal situation.
> When you mean fully patched, do you mean fully updated, fully protected, or something else?
Fully patched. For Linux, this means the latest version of the kernel and the latest version of all critical software (e.g. web browsers, FTP, SSH, etc.)
> So DefCon, in laymen's terms, gives you a cert that allows you to protect yourself from people messing with your traffic and eavesdropping (through microphones and cameras?), and lets you use the secured wifi? This sounds super interesting, but I have no clue how any of it works, haha.
The certificate allows you to do two things: 1.) authenticate the network, so you know for sure that you're on the network you think you are, talking to the router/access point you expect. 2.) Exchange a cryptographic key with that endpoint to ensure that all of your communications are free from tampering and eavesdropping. Key exchange mechanisms and certificate validation are huge topics. If you're interested, a good (though heavy) text to start with would be Schneier's "Applied Cryptography". There are also a number of good introduction to crypto courses, most of which will cover key exchange and cert authentication, available on Coursera and other online lecture sites.
> Are clear-body locks commonly sold/available? If so, they sound right up my ally!
Yep. Easily available on Amazon. Here's a set of 6 different styles for <$40: https://www.amazon.com/MICG-Transparent-Practice-Training-Locksmith/dp/B01H1MM1O2/
Here's the most common kind of lock (basic pin-tumbler) in a padlock form-factor on sale for $10 right now: https://www.amazon.com/BESTOPE-Professional-Practice-Beginners-Locksmith/dp/B00UF76C1Y/
> Is it normal to have stuff fall off and start messing with the internals of the locks?
Not as such, but most lockpicking tools are steal or titanium. Very often the internals of the lock are a copper alloy of some kind which is softer. Harder metal scraping on softer metal leads to flaking and pitting. Over time, the pits lead to binding and the flakes stick in the lock body and gum up the works. So things don't just break usually, but it can mess up the lock over time. If this leads to binding while a tool is in there, then it can be a bad time. Your tools can also sometimes bend or break small springs or other internals on certain kinds of locks.
Other good beginner guides: I like Deviant Ollam's "Practical Lockpicking": https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Penetration/dp/1597499897/
The MIT Lockpicking Guide is also pretty good (available free online). Other than that, if you can get old locksmithing manuals or references, they can really help fill in knowledge once you get the basics. New ones are HEINOUSLY expensive (the economics of rare, valuable knowledge get super weird), but sometimes you can find old ones for cheaper on eBay. Some people have also had lock with going-out-of-business sales for locksmiths or even just walking in and asking if they have any they'd like to get rid of. (Also sometimes works for old busted locks to practice on.) But at least in my area the locksmiths tend to sell their manuals online and junk their old locks for scrap, so I haven't personally had much luck there.
Hacking is a huge topic and means different things to different people. It has a huge number of specialties, so it's hard to get a start sometimes. It also helps to learn by doing. Hackers often develop their skills by doing wargames and "CTFs" that pose hacking related problems. A couple of good intro ones are OverTheWire (especially the "Bandit" set of problems) and HackThisSite.
http://overthewire.org/wargames/
https://www.hackthissite.org/
Expect that when you're starting out, you won't know a lot. Google is your friend. Other hackers are your friend. Most of the WarGame sites have IRC channels, so you can ask questions and get help.
There's also some introduction courses, but be wary of any of them that aren't oriented to hands-on doing. Hacking is about messing with things and breaking them in creative ways. Watching a lecture about hacking is a little bit like reading a recipe when you're hungry: a good start, but it won't do you much good unless you act on it.
A lot of the talks from hacker cons are available for free on YouTube. Search for DefCon talks and just watch a few and try and follow along. Google terms or concepts you're not familiar with. Where you can, try stuff out that you see (learn how to set up a virtual machine to play with so that when you break your box (and you will, if you're doing it right) you can just restore and not actually lose anything important.) Over time you'll learn more. If there's a particular area you get interested in, ask other hackers that you know or people you've met how to learn more.
> Before I forget, I want to thank you for all of your help. This is all really informative and great stuff, and I really appreciate taking the time to answer all of my questions!
Happy to help. I got a ton of help from random hackers when I was getting started and I still do even now. Hacking isn't like other disciplines. It's too chaotic and creative and fast-moving, so you really have to find your own way in it. As a result, hackers (the decent ones anyway) tend to be pretty good about helping each other out.
And if/when you fall down the rabbit hole and learn a bunch and someone else is looking for more information and comes to you with questions, then it'll be your turn to help them out.
Or buy his book about lockpicking. It's really good. I've recommended it several times on /r/lockpicking
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Edition/dp/1597499897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1372053094&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=deviant+ollam
I believe this might be from, or related to "Practical Lock Picking" by Deviant Olam.
Edit: Amazon
> Fully patched. For Linux, this means the latest version of the kernel and the latest version of all critical software (e.g. web browsers, FTP, SSH, etc.)
So you make sure to update your device before entering the con? Is that because hackers have found exploitations in previous versions?
> The certificate allows you to do two things: 1.) authenticate the network, so you know for sure that you're on the network you think you are, talking to the router/access point you expect. 2.) Exchange a cryptographic key with that endpoint to ensure that all of your communications are free from tampering and eavesdropping. Key exchange mechanisms and certificate validation are huge topics. If you're interested, a good (though heavy) text to start with would be Schneier's "Applied Cryptography". There are also a number of good introduction to crypto courses, most of which will cover key exchange and cert authentication, available on Coursera and other online lecture sites.
That makes sense! So it's a security blanket for your device to make sure you're not on an unsafe network where who knows what could happen.
I did learn a bit about cryptography and cert/key exchange mechanisms in an AP computer science class, but forgot most of it, haha.
Is Applied Cryptography meant for those who already have a background/knowledge in cryptography?
> If this leads to binding while a tool is in there, then it can be a bad time. Your tools can also sometimes bend or break small springs or other internals on certain kinds of locks.
Gotcha, definitely gonna use clear locks first so I can at least get a feel for when something is mucking up.
> Other good beginner guides: I like Deviant Ollam's "Practical Lockpicking": https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Lock-Picking-Second-Penetration/dp/1597499897/
> The MIT Lockpicking Guide is also pretty good (available free online).
I'm curious, do these do a good job of both explaining the mechanisms behind the locks, terminology, and how to pick a lock for beginners? I just want to make sure before I start reading them (or at least when I do start reading them).
> Other than that, if you can get old locksmithing manuals or references, they can really help fill in knowledge once you get the basics. New ones are HEINOUSLY expensive (the economics of rare, valuable knowledge get super weird),
I think I have one locksmith nearby me, so I might stop by and see what they have lying around.
Is there a reason new ones are notoriously expensive?
> Hacking is a huge topic and means different things to different people. It has a huge number of specialties, so it's hard to get a start sometimes. It also helps to learn by doing. Hackers often develop their skills by doing wargames and "CTFs" that pose hacking related problems. A couple of good intro ones are OverTheWire (especially the "Bandit" set of problems) and HackThisSite.
So would these websites introduce me to the world of online/computer hacking (apologies if that's the wrong terminology)? I'm somewhat spoiled/misguided by media sources like Mr. Robot, so I don't know what's true and what's fictitious/common in today's world.
> Expect that when you're starting out, you won't know a lot. Google is your friend. Other hackers are your friend. Most of the WarGame sites have IRC channels, so you can ask questions and get help.
If you don't know the answer to this, totally understandable: are most hackers willing to help out new-to-the-scene hackers? I know some communities (not related to hacking, but in general) are very quick to judge and ridicule newcomers to the scene.
> There's also some introduction courses, but be wary of any of them that aren't oriented to hands-on doing. Hacking is about messing with things and breaking them in creative ways. Watching a lecture about hacking is a little bit like reading a recipe when you're hungry: a good start, but it won't do you much good unless you act on it.
Knowing me, watching a lecture wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I'm fine with watching and learning concepts as long as it's interesting, y'know?
> Where you can, try stuff out that you see (learn how to set up a virtual machine to play with so that when you break your box (and you will, if you're doing it right) you can just restore and not actually lose anything important.) Over time you'll learn more. If there's a particular area you get interested in, ask other hackers that you know or people you've met how to learn more.
I do have a Virtual Box set up for both Linux and Windows 7 (I think), so luckily I already have a playpen set up. I just hope that I can find some way of starting out hacking, since it does seem fun.
> It's too chaotic and creative and fast-moving, so you really have to find your own way in it. As a result, hackers (the decent ones anyway) tend to be pretty good about helping each other out.
When you mean chaotic and fast-moving, do you mean that there's always new techniques and ideas coming out? I'm always a little nervous to step into a fast-moving scene in fear of focusing too much on something that has the potential to be outdated by the time I've finished learning it, y'know?
> And if/when you fall down the rabbit hole and learn a bunch and someone else is looking for more information and comes to you with questions, then it'll be your turn to help them out.
That'll be the day; I'd love to help someone in the future who's in my shoes today.
After your picks,here is your next purchase :)
Practical Lock Picking, Second Edition: A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/1597499897/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_6qXLub1VB4HEA
Ideas are damn near worth nothing unless they're in the pure areas like mathematics and such. Execution is everything.
Luckily for you, executing is arguably easier than it has ever been in human history. A few things come to mind.
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time is the most important. It is Scrum broken down by the creator of Scrum. It’s filled with some good empirical data and is pretty trade-agnostic. Not super specific for tech work just work in general. If you want a good tech use-case of scrum and agile methodologies The Lean Startup is pretty insightful and convinced me that documenting every detail of a product before developing never works.
We can all see the sky is blue - that's not special. And it doesn't carry the implication that "the system is not that complicated" - think about what lies beyond all that blue.
Your first sentence is pretty interesting. i read a book, Nonzero that basically asserts that this has been the teleology of all of human existence. That this is, indeed, an almost necessary condition for the growth of human society.
No it isn't, it's senseless insanity. Find out why the Christian Illuminati death cultists are such ignorant assholes.
Christians are the most retarded people on the planet. They could all be exterminated with no net loss, but in fact a net gain.
On olemassa paljon erilaisia malleja. Itse pidan eniten persoonallisuustyyppien/psykometrian kaytosta. Talloin asiaa lahestytaan, joko kuvaamalla minkalaisia persoonallisuuden ominaisuuksia tietty tehtava vaatii; tai minkalaista persoonaa tyonantaja odottaa; tai minkalainen persoona sopisi parhaiten olemassa olevaan ryhmaan. Toki jotkin ihmiset pitavat psykometrian kayttoa taytena humpuukkina tai eettisesti arveluttavana, mutta itse naen silla olevan vahvat perusteet. Oma mielipiteeni on, etta jos tyonantajan MUTU ja kaytettava malli sanovat hakijan olevan paras: palkkaa. Jos yrittaja ja malli ovat ristiriidassa toistensa kanssa, palaa takaisin piirrustuspoydan aareen - jotain on pielessa siina mita haet.
Jos et usko persoonallisuusmalleihin, mutta et pelkaa kokeilla uutta, niin hyva ja halpa tapa on tehda Strengts Finder 2.0 persoonallisuustesti. Gallupin tutkija tutki persoonallisuuksia ja abstraktoi eri piirteet 34 teemaan. Testi kertoo mitka ihmisen 5 teemaa ovat hanen vahvimpansa. Yleensa kukaan ei juuri yllaty siita mita tulokset ovat, mutta ihmisen loytaessa oikeat sanat, han voi helpommin kommunikoida omat vahvuutensa ja myos peilata tyotarjouksia niita vasten. Itse olen kaynyt tyotarjoukset hyvin pitkalle tata tyokalua vasten ja hylannyt kaikki tyotehtavat, joissa en ole voinut hyodyntaa suurinta osaa vahvuuksistani.
Ihan esimerkin vuoksi, jotta saat makua mita tulokset ovat niin tassa omat vahvuuteni...
Kun katson omaa tyouraa ja kaikkea mita olen tehnyt, niin parhaimmat tulokset ovat tulleet T&K:n puolelta ja selviytymisesta vaikeista tilanteista. Huonoimmat hetket taas on koettu tukitehtavissa ja jamahteneissa organisaatioissa. Itse esimerkiksi olen hyva aloittamaan ja viemaan eteenpain uutta tai perkaamaan taydellista sotkua, mutta asioiden tasaantuessa ja helpottuessa minut kannattaa vaihtaa toiseen henkiloon.
I would recommend Strengths Finder, it helps you figure out your personality strengths and how you can use them.
https://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Tom-Rath/dp/159562015X