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by andrewlgood 4y ago
Principles is a thought provoking book in that it gets one to think of running a business like running a machine. Invest in computers and programming to perform checklist tests constantly so you can ensure your business is operating in the
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by andrewlgood 4y ago
I read Magister Ludi or The Glass Bead Game several times in my younger days. I was a Hermann Hesse fan. I echo the recommendation but would add what I found most appealing about it is the idea that all knowledge is related. Once players
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by andrewlgood 4y ago
I agree one could pick silly metrics. The point is to pick a metric that you have thought about and care about the results. It is difficult to discuss/debate the proposition "I feel weird about the direction of society." T
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by andrewlgood 4y ago
I think kelseyfrog has it better with the term 'subjective' rather than 'political.' Different people will have different morals and different views of what a well operating society looks like. It does not mean they ar
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by andrewlgood 4y ago
I do not disagree that income inequality is objectively measurable. My point is your choice of whom to include for comparison (e.g. US inequality is very different than comparing US vs Yemen inequality. Moreover, low inequality with every
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by andrewlgood 4y ago
While I understand the sentiment, it is an incredibly broad statement. What defines better / worse for you? On a macro level, it seems the world is getter better every year - fewer people die of starvation, lethal diseases are cured
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by andrewlgood 4y ago
The gist of the Washington Post article is they could not hire sufficient staff for the store. They dedicated two recruiters to the task and were still unsuccessful. For the staff they did have, there was "excessive call outs and lac
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by andrewlgood 4y ago
Not quite a balanced representation of what happened. The store had been closed for a month due to an inability to hire people. Washington Post article has fuller explanation of both sides - https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
UROP can be an amazing opportunity. Professors are looking for freshman (and older) to participate in real research opportunities. For many graduating MIT, they describe it as the most impactful aspect of their time at MIT.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
As an alum of MIT, I highly recommend attending, if you are going to put in the work to be successful there. The fact that you have been admitted means you probably will. In 30 years of working after college, with numerous job interviews a
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
I do not see the nations with large militaries turning over control of their militaries to the UN. How would a separate UN military be funded? manned?
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Phenomenal book. One of the few books I have gifted to friends over the years. Gets one to think about the randomness of situations (geography, diversity of flora, etc) that lead to critical outcomes (advancement of a society).
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Not sure what the fuss is. Any company publicly registered in the US has to provide a reconciliation of its income taxes. Netflix 2021 1.0-k can Be found here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Some financing leads to ownership. Leasing a car does not lead to ownership - it is an extended rental. I am not a fan of products that make it difficult to unsubscribe, but I do like the variable cost aspect of SaaS. Generally quick to s
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Interesting article. The arguments re inequality seem to lead to an inevitable need for Universal Basic Income (or whatever else you want to call it) as a smaller group of people continue to generate the vast majority of income and control
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Agree. Also hard to beat the ability to create pretty reports as well. This is why many financial forecasting systems have connectivity to Excel to allow for the creation of reports.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
I do not think the point is software engineers hate spreadsheets. Software engineers would approach their use of spreadsheets very differently than a financial analyst. I think the point is software engineers hate inheriting spreadsheets
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
I agree with the your statements. Would add that it is important to understand most developers of spreadsheets have never taken a programming class and do not fully understand many of the issues discussed in this thread. Also, there is lit
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
How would you put guardrails on the spreadsheets to make sure spreadsheets do not accidently damage the database performance through bad calls? In the hierarchy of skills, SQL is significantly less prevalent that spreadsheets.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
When contemplating shifting end users to something other than spreadsheets, one needs to keep in mind how many spreadsheet users there are and what there motivations to change.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Article covers a great point, just does not provide a framework to make decisions regarding when to use spreadsheets. I am a CFO that has used spreadsheets my entire career (30+years). They can definitely have a vital role in any company a
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
That's a very different conversation - what is the value of having managers. Are you suggesting that companies do not need managers?
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Why? I understand the author's claims that many managers are not properly suited for their job, but the author never claims that spans of control (how many people a manager can manage) are changing as we move to a fully/more remo
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Just a quick looks suggests it is a big issue. Hard to get firm estimates (presumably because we only know about the people who get caught) but one estimate has it at 7% of total expenditures of $700 billion which puts it at around $49 bil
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Interesting statistic. The one year may be a bit of an outlier for the relationship. If you look at the 2010-2020 period in the data linked above, the US had a significantly higher growth rate in business formation (75% vs. 36%). This is
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Thank for the clarification. I did see the lambda announcement, but have not looked at it yet. Will move that up the priority list.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Back to permissions. Most office workers are not authorized to use those tools. They need the capability built into Excel.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Excel has become the de facto report writer. Look at how many products have Excel plug ins. This allows them to skip the UI development and the report writing portion.
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
Agree. This is why there is so much MS Access stuff out there. It came as part of the MS Office suite so office workers had it on their desktop and could use it without having to IT and work their way up the priority queue. VBA is terribl
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by andrewlgood 5y ago
I wouldn't sell the financial analysts short. Pandas was developed by financial analysts to assist in their routine analytics work.

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