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Analysis = Facts + Interpretation | Seth’s Blog If you fail to show us the facts, it’s difficult to accept your analysis. While it’s tempting to…

Consulting firms rank brands on value. Marketers promise to increase it. But brand value has little to do with whether a company is famous or even…

Checking all the boxes | Seth’s Blog The simplest way forward is to see which boxes your target market has and then check all of them.…

Expertise and credentials | Seth’s Blog In the ideal world, credentials would be awarded to all experts, and withdrawn from all charlatans. But they don’t always…

The weird arithmetic of coordinated action | Seth’s Blog Twenty handwritten letters received by someone in power are worth a hundred times as much as two…

“I don’t want to learn to be better,” is something we rarely admit. We don’t say: I don’t want to learn statistics, even though it will…

For generations, humans have been entrusting their lives to computers. Air Traffic Control, statistical analysis of bridge resilience, bar codes for drug delivery, even the way…

Kinds of incompetence | Seth’s Blog The second worst is the unaware sort. The work doesn’t meet spec, and we don’t even realize it. The worst…

Lulled | Seth’s Blog Selfish is easy. Short term is easy. Complacent is easy. Turning our head and ignoring the problem is easy. Going along to…

Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then we see that we’re going to be better at it,…