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   by mathattack 12y ago

   That they are revenue neutral makes it even worse.
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Ivies give so much need based scholarships that athletic scholarships aren't required. If someone's parents and poor, the school finds a way for them to graduate debt-free. (This is a big plus for them) As for sports having an i
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   CalTech is the tops in my book on this. I don't have a huge sample size, but they are all rock stars. I've met a few less than impressive MITers. What surprises me is that the Ivies can still have such high average test scores a
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   What ivy league and other private research universities excel at academically is scholarly opportunities outside class assignments. This is actually true at any school. At large state schools, there are professors doing real research. T
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   This fits in with something I’ve noticed. I know this sounds harsh, but when I run across someone who is at the top of their profession and yet seems woefully underwhelming, they often have Ivy League BAs in non-demanding majors (For examp
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Don't even get me started on the sports, it's an outrage how US schools have become sports franchises. This pisses me off too. It's why I don't give money to my Sports Franchise undergrad.
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   ok. Next I'll wish for a raise and a George Lucas AMA. :-)
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   The "higher brand" consultancies also live by their stamp of approval. A CEO who wants to do a risky strategy will hire the biggest brand name possible to provide cover. "Nobody got fired for hiring McKinsey for advice"
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   by mathattack 12y ago

   Wasn't the prior CEO (Meg Whitman) also Bain? In his defense, he was there for almost 10 years, no?
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    When I saw this, I was hoping for a "Sam Altman AMA". :-)
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    Why is infant mortality higher in the US than in Europe? [pdf](faculty.chicagobooth.edu)

    1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I was thinking similarly. If you pay salespeople only on Sales $, it sounds like incentives are aligned, but you have to watch yourselves.
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    Marc Andreessen: We’ve “Kicked Around” Doing a Hedge Fund, Too (2013)(strictlyvc.com)

    2 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    At my undergrad, the internal IT department was generally folks who couldn't get full time jobs in technology. Many departmental projects were done by students as projects, and were never updated or supported afterward.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Perhaps the best thing of the article is his willingness to do an AMA on Reddit. :-) Fingers crossed!
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Perhaps they could be used as voting rights to changes on the site?
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I hate to admit it, but this is true. In a sense, I would be less likely to hire me if I saw too high a karma score. :-)
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    This is true in most of social science. Metrics work when people don't know they're being measured. Once people learn they're being measured on something, they optimize to it. On another note... If a metric is being used p
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    And they work Peter Thiel into the equation too. Very interesting. Not enough crazies!
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Interesting that you comment on that. One ex-Cisco engineering friend of mine went to both Facebook and Google. I think the CEO does set the tone of which types of employees a company values. I recall a quote (I thought was Joel Spolsky o
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    There are a lot of comments that betray the facade, and show the old IBM. Comments on keeping busy and reinventing careers shows a tremendous internal focus. “Our internal metric is we look to sign one to two new customers a week,” he says
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    You hit on it. IBM has a legacy of great financial engineering and sales. This isn't all that bad, if they admit that they're a value company rather than a growth company, the best thing to do is provide sales and service while
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    "Undeterred, I installed the bees on the roof of my Brooklyn apartment and began the absurd process of learning how to keep them alive. Incredibly, they flourished, and by October I had perhaps 70,000 bees..." That has to make one
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Gives new meaning to "Are you speaking my language?" It can have moral overtones too.
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    The cab driver who knew how to play chess(chess.com)

    2 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I like that this is funded by a mathematician turned hedge fund billionaire. :-)
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Is it that Cisco sucks at this, or do all big companies suck at this? At some point "Getting along with others" trumps "Bringing in money" and "Building great things" (or combined, "Building great things t
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I've known folks who left Cisco on the assumption that "The mothership will buy us, and I will get my old seat back." It didn't work out that way, though the folks wound up doing fine anyway.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    I wish I had the time to finish the article.
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    by mathattack 12y ago

    Their course corrections have been as good as any large company. Even if the product wasn't there, they caught many of the biggest trends. Even Microsoft didn't see the internet coming.