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Klein organizations

In a Weekly Digest in April, I posted a link to Explaining Tech's Notion of Talent Scarcity. In my head, I implicitly linked this to Burton Klein's classification of firms: Type 1: “Happy warrior rationality” is associated with ideological outbreeding and is commonly employed in making

Linkfest 2023-02-25: The Gospel Truth

On Twitter this morning I commented on how historical and literary criticism of the Gospels has slowly come around to the traditional interpretation, although I suspect many people haven’t quite caught on to that yet. In particular, I love this from PEG’s book review of Jesus and the

No, You Can't Be an Astronaut 2023 Edition is Free on Amazon

In 2018 I reviewed the book No, You Can’t Be an Astronaut, written under the pseudonym Patience Fairweather, Ph.D. That book is now on its fourth edition, and the author E. G. de Pillis, is willing to shed her pseudonymity. You can pick up the book for free

Out of Office

Linkfest 2021-10-30: The Great Filter

The thread that accompanies this joke resume that got interviews does an excellent job of explaining how really popular companies screen their resumes. This does have a number of undesirable effects, but it would be worth reflecting on what other filtering mechanics might actually work in this situation. It isn’

2017 OES Wages for the United States

Here is another post in my useful data series. This one is about wages in the United States, as collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is the data from 2017, which I am using because I have the percentile ranges translated into dollar amounts. This is interesting because

LinkFest 2016-04-01

April Fool's Edition The CDC is trying to make 86 million Americans sick I've long thought the pre-diabetes thing was a bit foolish. While it is a good thing to be able to quantitate, if you don't understand what you are doing it can